How to Get Children More Active. A Real Life Case Study on Promoting Fitness in Saudi Arabia
Pedagogy & Curriculum
Phuket 2023
Jon and Heba will present on the past sporting landscape and the current changes in the country with respect to sport / healthy living and how the future looks very bright for the next generation of young movers. They will share how they designed a program to get kids moving – starting a journey to elite performance and being active for life
The lessons will be applicable to PE Educators, Ahtletics Directors and Head of Sports in any school. It will cover:
1. Why the need for parkour & how we started with no money – discuss physical inactive levels, reduction in natural play, parent protection, early schooling trend / business how we bootstrapped
2. The need for play (unstructured vs structured) and what affect it has on child development
3. How we use our parkour program to provide long term athlete development – 3 different styles of programming is used at Flite
4. How and why we created a PE teacher training program and why it can be an added value for primary schools
5. Our thoughts and advice for anyone wanted to follow our model – mistakes we learnt over the past 5 years (including the covid years)
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Phuket 2023
Phuket 2023
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Most applicable to educators working in the following areas:
- Lower Elementary [Age 4 - 6]
- Upper Elementary [Age 8 - 10]
