What is the Active After-School Communities Program?
The AASC is a national program that is part of the Australian Government’s $116m “Building a Healthy, Active Australia” package. It provides primary school-aged children with access to free, structured physical activity programs in the after-school timeslot of 3-00pm to 5-30pm.
What are the objectives of the AASC program?
- To enhance the physical activity of Australian primary school-aged children through a nationally co-ordinated program.
- To provide increased opportunities for inclusive participation in quality, safe and fun structured physical activities.
- To grow community capacity and stimulate local community involvement in sport and structured physical activity.
Funskills delivers the best quality multi-sports program where kids practice, develop and enhance their motor and social skills whilst having endless fun through play.
Furthermore, the program encourages a healthy lifestyle and increases the children’s overall fitness.
All children who participate in our program will gain the confidence required to perform the following physical and social skills:
| BASIC MOTOR SKILLS |
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SOCIAL SKILLS |
* Running
* Catching
* Kicking
* Throwing
* Passing
* Skipping
* Jumping
* Balancing
* Ball skills |
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* Listening
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Teamwork
* Sportsmanship
* Confidence
* Taking turns
* Communication
* Independence
* Making friends
* Decision making |
All our programs are designed to include unlimited variety and creativity.Funskills provides all professional sporting equipment including balls,hoops,skipping ropes,cricket equipment,tug-of-war rope and much,much more.
The children are fully supervised by our qualified staff who are passionate about developing children’s sporting and life skills whilst improving their health and fitness along the way.
Funskills is currently delivering the AASC “Playing for Life” program in the
following schools:
- Bronte Public School
- Chifley Public School
- Clovelly Public School
- Gardeners Road Primary OOSH
- Kensington Public School
- Malabar Public School
- Randwick Primary OOSH
For further information about the Active After-School Communities Program
(AASC) go to : http://www.ausport.gov.au/aasc/
