Calderdale primary school children invited to take Stay At Home Challenge

The new Stay At Home Challenge is the brain child of Huddersfield based sports education company, Sporting Age.

It is designed to help children continue to improve their level of ability at movement skills such as running, jumping and throwing – known as fundamental movement skills – while they are off school during the lockdown.

Explaining how the Stay At Home Challenge works, Shaun Fox, managing director at Sporting Age, said: “The Stay At Home Challenge is all about children having lots of fun while using everyday household items to help them learn and develop their fundamental movement skills while they’re not in class.

“At the end of the challenge, they will get their results so they can see for themselves the progress they have made.

“It’s really simple for parents to help their children get involved, and we’ve created some easy to follow videos that demonstrate exactly what to do to set everything up for the challenge.

“The children carry out three simple skills tests – a speed bounce, a target throw and a fast feet challenge. Parents or guardians then submit the scores from each of the three tests online.

“Our software then analyses the scores and generates an individual result for each child, known as their sporting age.

“This indicates where the child’s level of ability at the movement skills required to complete the three challenges sits when compared to their actual age.”

“Each child gets a fun programme of additional movement skills to practice at home for two weeks, before re-taking the three original skills tests to see if they can improve their sporting age.”

To find out more about the challenge and take part, visit sportingage.co.uk/challenge