pacific games, noumea 2011 - Oceania Athletics Association

From the great success of teaching Kids Athletics at Delap
Elementary School, Jomina and Birney are now planning
to visit and teach in more schools around the Marshall
Islands. Their activities have excited other PE and health
teachers who now want to become involved in the project.
Northern Mariana Islands (NMI)
Orrin Pharmin and Clayton Kenty have conducted three
Kids Athletics Camps since they competed the IAAF Kids
Athletics Course in May. By implementing the Kids
Athletics activities within the Saipan 2011 Summer Youth
Camp, over 230 children participated in the Kids Athletics
activities over a two week period. Due to the vast number
of children participating, Orrin and Clayton placed the
children into different groups; 6-8 years old, 9-10 year
olds, and 11-12 year olds.
Kids Athletics is progressing well in Saipan, and NMI is
planning to speed the pace up by continuing with our
outlined plan by being interactive with the Public School
System (PSS). They are also planning to have a debrief/
evaluation session with coaches, trainers and teachers in
December to try and gain feedback on how to better
develop Kids Athletics in Saipan.
Norfolk Island (NFI)
Brett Thompson from Norfolk Island Central School has
used the knowledge he gained from the Kids Athletics
Course to integrate the IAAF Kids Athletics into the
schools Sports and Education curriculum along with the
Australian Sports Commission School Community
Programs. One of the goals of these activities was to get
children prepared and motivated for the schools annual
Athletics Carnival. This was a huge success, resulting in
around 90 children between the ages of five to eight years
to develop skills, increase movement to support good
health, and motivate more children to participate in
athletics. These activities have also promoted the IAAF
Kids Athletics to other school teachers and community
members who are now in talks to use them in already
planned future activities.
Tuvalu (TUV)
Okilani Tinilau, Sport Development Officer from Tuvalu
Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee
will be running a Kids Athletics Awareness seminar later in
November to promote Kids Athletics in Tuvalu. Okilani has
invited Tuvalu Athletics Association volunteers, school
teachers, children and family members to demonstrate
and teach people about the IAAF Kids Athletics activities.
Okilani‘s goal is to get school teachers and community to
regularly conduct Kids Athletics activities at school and
community events. As part of this seminar, Okilani will be
teaching people to use and make modified Athletics Kids
equipment that is easily accessible.
Oceania RDC Bulletin 2011 Page 27