Activ8 – A series of dynamic movement pattern programs specially designed for children aged from 3 years of age to 18 years of age.
For kindergarten and primary age children, Activ8 programs are run before, during or after school either as open programs or within schools, and are based on dynamic movement patterns to stimulate, encourage and progress physical literacy.
For students who are in secondary or student athletes who are competitive in any sports discipline, the Activ8 program titled Dynamic Movement Patterns (DMP) is designed for these students to develop and increase their ability with speed, agility, balance and quickness as well as coordination and correction of running mechanics.
Based around a Dynamic Movement Pattern syllabus that is similar to SAQ, Activ8 programs cover 8 clear steps with focus, intensity and complexity varying dependent on the age group and overall objectives of the individual program:
- Techniques and benefits of warming up and how to apply them
- How students can improve the way they run/move – using proper technique
- Improving quick feet using agility ladders
- Being more agile and flexible
- How to make ourselves faster with the use of resistance
- How to apply our learning in a physical education environment
- The techniques and benefits to a warm down and how to apply them
- The benefits of nutrition, before and after exercise
DID YOU KNOW
BREAKFAST CLUBS
An Active Body – An Active Mind
A before-school physical exercise program based on dynamic movement patterns to stimulate, encourage and progress physical literacy in primary students, and aimed at complementing any school PE sessions or sports clubs.
Our Breakfast Clubs help children achieve the ready-to-learn status through a fun and dynamic movement program, as well as promote social and physical well-being through individual and team-focused exercises.
Breakfast Clubs goals are to:
- Promote physical exercise at a young age – introducing good habits early
- Introduce good practices for dynamic movement techniques when children play sports
- Enhance a child’s overall well-being
- Increase a child’s ability to be physically literate
- Increase alertness and concentration levels at the start of the school day – information processing, storage and retrieval
- Teach and improve posture
- Promote healthy eating habits
- Develop social skills, communication and teamwork so a child gets along well with others.
DYNAMIC KIDS CLASSES
Dynamic Kids is a safe, enjoyable and interactive physical exercise program based on fundamental and dynamic movement patterns to stimulate, encourage and progress physical literacy in kindergarten students from 3 to 5 years old.
Based on a ‘Fundamental Movement and Movement Framework Syllabus’ the program covers:
- Locomotor Skills – Dodging, skipping, hopping, jumping, running, walking
- Manipulative Skills – Throwing and catching, striking with the feet and hands, striking with an implement
- Stability Skills – Balance, landing and rotation
- Body – What the body does
- Space – Where the body moves
- Effort – How the body performs
- Relationships – How they occur in movement
Each child can develop as an individual whilst working also in a group in team play.
The 8 goals of Dynamic Kids are to:
- Promote good physical exercise habits at a young age
- Introduce good dynamic movement techniques when children play sports
- Enhance a child’s overall well-being
- Increase a child’s ability to be physically literate
- Increase alertness and concentration levels – information processing, storage and retrieval
- Teach and improve posture
- Develop social skills, communication and teamwork so a child gets along well with others
- Promote healthy eating habits
DYNAMIC MOVEMENT CLASSES
The specific aims of DMP sessions are to develop and extend fundamental skills, increase core strength, balance and co-ordination and ultimately complete control of the body.
DMP is a sequence of events which can be used individually or together to improve general/specific physical performance. These include:
- Dynamic Flex Warm-Up – An introduction to warming up on the move, starting slowly and increasing both the range of movement and the tempo
- Mechanics – Correct running techniques and body positioning to increase capabilities on the move
- Fast Feet Stimulation – The use of speed ladders to increase foot to ground contact time, reinforce mechanics and develop complex movement patterns
- Coordinated Circuits – Using ladders, hurdles, cones, poles etc., sports specific circuits can be used to develop programmed agility as well as conditioning the athletes
- Explosion – Short, sharp explosive motions, using resisted/unresisted contrast phase – parachutes and resistance belts are great for these
- Amalgamation – This is the area where we can put the sessions skills into sports specific or generic movement sessions
- Dynamic Flex Warm-Down – The cool down period reversing a lot of the warm-up, but utilising static stretching as well and includes a reflection component.
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