Community And Schools

The Sport Otago schools team is Nicola Shanks and Katie Menzies.  For Nicola's details click here. For Katie's details click here.

Events Calendar

The Community and Schools team maintain an events calendar with lots of information on training courses, schools events and other things that will be of interest to students and teachers.  Click here to see the calendar. 

Getting Your School and Its Community More Active

The Sport Otago schools team offer all primary and intermediate schools in the Otago region support and guidance around sport and physical activity within the school environment. This is achieved through establishing key community networks and partnerships, facilitating training opportunities for parents, teachers, and trainee teachers and supporting appropriate events and promotions.  As part of this, physical activity workshops are available, with an option to run these within clusters of schools with the aim of developing fundamental movement skills through a variety of games and activity ideas.

Fundamental movement skills provide a foundation for many sports and physical activities.  Having these skills are an essential part of enjoyable participation and lifelong interest in an active lifestyle.

Useful Links

You can view the Otago Primary School Sports Association website here.

For Fundamental skill ideas click here.

For physical activity ideas, games and fun things to do click here.

For more ideas on fun physical activities for children see push play parents pages click here.

Our bodies need breakfast to give us the energy we need for physical activity and sport, check out this link for some ideas.

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