Active Awareness Engaging Education
We use active engagement and play as the basis for and extension of foundational learning and academic skills.
What
We Do
- Active Learning
- Literacy & Language Skills
- Numeracy & Number Knowledge
- Physical Literacy & Learning Foundations
- Provincial Curriculum
- Life Skills
- Sport Promotion
- Social Development
- Physical Literacy
Our series of award worthy workshops are designed by and FEATURE current and former ELITE sport specific ATHLETES and/or COACHES. We offer a number of options for the scheduling and delivery of our AGE-APPROPRIATE programs. The lengths of our workshops are FLEXIBLE, which allows simple and EFFECTIVE COORDINATION with established school routines and CLASS SCHEDULES. Programs are aligned with Ministry of Education’s HEALTH & PHYSICAL EDUCATION CURRICULUM EXPECTATIONS. All awareness topics are INTERCHANGEABLE with sport of interest and choice.
Our innovative sport and play-based approach supports learning and literacy, promotes healthy active living, and has lasting benefits on children and youth’s foundational learning skills, such as self-regulation, reading, writing, and number knowledge
We offer a number of options for the scheduling and delivery of our age-appropriate programs:
- The duration of our workshops is flexible
- Effective coordination with established school routines and class schedules
- Simple alignment with existing class schedules
- Program alignment with Ministry of Education’s curriculum expectations
PLAY & LEARN
(FUNdamentals) Foundational Learning SkillsPHYSICAL LITERACY & LEARNING FOUNDATIONS
(FUNdamentals) Foundational Learning SkillsREAD &
LEAD
(Basketball)
Number Knowledge
Our creative sport and activity-based approaches serve as a constructive solution to the identified issue of learning gaps and loss following the pandemic, which has proven to have disproportionate negative outcomes for underserved populations and students in particular.
PLAY & LEARN
FDK – Gr 3
This workshop will use play-based pedagogy as the vehicle to encourage and enhance students’ love of learning, build literacy competencies, reignite relationships and belonging, and fuel healthy social interactions and movement.
Dr. Angela Pyle’s Play Learning Lab at the University of Toronto describes a continuum of play that includes five distinct categories: learning through games, playful learning, collaboratively created play, inquiry play, and free play. The value of this continuum is that it softens the sometimes-misplaced hard distinction between play and learning (Play Learning Lab, 2021).
*This workshop designed to teach, develop and promote foundational learning skills. Students will practice basic literacy, numeracy, and transferable skills, that are the building blocks for a life of learning.
Sample Activities:
Partner Poly Spots – Floor Discs – Colours and numbers, Cooperative Play
Active Bingo – Decoding & Integration of Information
MOVEMENT FUNDAMENTALS & LEARNING FOUNDATIONS
FDK – Gr 3
This workshop series will inspire foundational learning skills through FUNdamental movements. Children will be actively engaged in movement related activities and challenges as they develop physical literacy and move confidently, competently, creatively and strategically across a wide range of health-related physical activities. The program will support youth in foundational skills as they explore movement fundamentals and athletic foundations as they learn to make healthy, active choices, that are both beneficial to and respectful of their whole self, others, and their environment.
*This workshop is designed to teach, develop and improve foundational learning skills. Foundational learning is the foundations of a child’s education. It refers to basic literacy, numeracy, and transferable skills, that are the building blocks for a life of learning.
Sample Activities:
Fitness ‘Skilllastics’ – Numbering & Reading. Gross Motor Skills
Make a Word Relay – Spelling & Comprehension
BASKETBALL READ & L.E.A.D
(LEADERSHIP EMPOWERMENT AWARENESS DEVELOPMENT)
Gr 4-6
Basketball Read & L.E.A.D. will creatively support the development and enhancement of foundational academic skills through strategically scheduled Play & Learn sessions. Each workshop will creatively support numeracy skills through the careful integration of ‘number knowledge’ and learning within each sport related skill, drill and challenge.
*This workshop is designed to teach, develop and improve numeracy skills and practice the ability to use, interpret and communicate mathematical information. Students will use numeracy skills to solve problems and make sense of numbers, time, and patterns though a creative series of workshop activities.
Sample Activities:
Double Dribble – Counting & Measuring
High Percentages– Estimating and Charting
Soccer League & Learn
Gr 7-8
Soccer League & Learn will engage students in healthy competition, while creatively promoting cultural awareness and international connections, and supporting literacy in the process. This workshop will creatively promote knowledge of international teams, as well as the professional leagues from around the world, while providing opportunities for the creative integration of literacy and learning through special presentations, postings and announcements.
*This workshop is designed to teach, develop and improve literacy skills. Literacy skills are all the skills needed for reading and writing. Workshop activities will include vocabulary, spelling, and comprehension. Students will practice sounds of language, awareness of print, and the relationship between letters and sounds.
Sample Activities:
World Cup Qualifiers – Spelling & Comprehension
International Leagues & Learning – Awareness of Print
This creative series of Active Learning & Literacy workshops has contributed to our ongoing efforts in supporting our students in meeting the provincial standards for literacy, using sport and physical activity as the connection
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Active Learning & Literacy Workshops