Preps
The Sport and Movement Programme for your 5 Year Old
The Programme for Five Year Old Children
In addition to fine-tuning skills developed in the previous Playball programmes your child will practice more demanding and specialised sports skills and sport sequences, with an emphasis on the quality of the skills execution.
Programme Emphasis
Refinement
The refinement of the manipulation component of the popular sports.
Positioning
The development of skills relating to direction, distance and space.
Execution
The development of the correct execution of the skill.
Teamwork
The development of teamwork and partner work.
Decision-Making
Development of decision-making in a game situation.
Sport Games
Playing small-sided sport games in a competitive environment.
Sport Focused
The Preps are starting to find competence in all the individual sport skills. Amongst other skills, they find it increasingly easy to confidently bounce a ball up to a hoop and shoot a basket; or dribble a hockey ball and pass it to a teammate.
There are a number of exercises that include partner work to provide the children with an introduction to team work. They are learning to work together as a unit to achieve a common goal while taking on leadership roles.
What Your Child Will Achieve
This programme deals with the refinement of skills. There is greater emphasis on the quality of each movement. The programme includes a wide range of specialised sports skills, formalised sports drills and a large amount of partner work, which lays the foundation for competent sport participation and team selection.
Hear from an Owner
"In Preps we focus on the refinement of skills and how they move from one skill to the next, we call this skill sequencing. "
Hear from a Parent
"The Playball programme is run by an excellent and enthusiastic team of individuals. All the coaches love sport and love children."