Playball
What is Playball?
An international sports and movement program coaching children around the world.
Children thrive in our fun-filled, high quality sport lessons. Creating a learning environment, which boosts confidence and self-esteem, is paramount.
Your child will be coached to engage confidently in a wide range of sport skills preparing them for years of positive and competent sports participation.
Why Sport?
Research has proven that children between the ages of two and eight (known as foundation phase) who develop the key movement skills and experience the joy of competitive sports, will participate in physical activity and enjoy the many benefits that an active lifestyle provides for the rest of their lives!
The Playball Programs
We offer six different Playball programs lasting one year each. These are age-specific according to the cognitive, emotional / social and motor development milestones of each age group.
In each program your child’s developmental, emotional and physical needs are met. Each program has as one of its primary objectives to teach sport and movement, and to teach it properly.
Playball is More than Just Sport
Through our carefully researched programs. Playball will help children at your school in 3 key areas:
In the Classroom
A child who has not developed sufficient trunk control through lack of movement will find academic tasks like reading and writing challenging. Poor postural control will result in poor academic performance in a classroom environment.
On the Sports Field
When a child starts participating in school sport, the focus generally shifts from a skill outcome to a result outcome e.g. does the child field the ball properly and throw it to the correct base to get the batter out. At Playball, our coaches are concerned about the development of the skill.
On the Playground
One of the main goals of Playball is to give your child the necessary skills to INTEGRATE and ENGAGE with other children on a social level. Aspects like confidence, sharing and developing their “self-concept” (defined by Parkus and Nirius as our sense of self) are encouraged. These life skills come to the fore in a playground environment.
