About Us
Playball.
Playball is an internationally renowned sport and movement program. We use a game-based approach to teach our children.
Our research and development team has developed an exclusive curriculum of games that incorporate movement and sports skills for eight popular sports.
A typical lesson involves a warm up, four or five different games focusing on specific skills and a fun game to end.
The games included vary depending on the age-group but often cover catching, kicking, accurate use of hockey sticks and tennis rackets and various types of throws.
There are franchises throughout New Zealand and the world.
Ages & Stages
Playball classes are age-specific. The focus for children under 5 is on developing movement skills as well as important cognitive skills like listening, paying attention, spatial awareness, and response inhibition. Children of this age are developing self-control and Playball assists with this by encouraging children to take turns and listen closely.
Two year olds learn concepts like listening and taking instruction while practicing essential movement skills. At this age, children are still learning how to use their bodies and our classes focus in on this to solidify the connection between the brain and the body.
Three year olds continue to learn movement skills and basic sports skills like catching, throwing, hitting, kicking and using tennis rackets and hockey sticks.
The four year old programme builds on the three year old programme and focuses more on technical detail of a range of sports skills and prepares the child for the school environment.
Primary school kids focus on learning basic rules, game plans and techniques of each sport to prepare for a successful transition into the organised sport or sports of their choice.
