with Simon Mills
warkworthpushplay@gmail.com
Simon Mills is Warkworth’s first fulltime Community Sports Coach, appointed by Warkworth and Districts Pushplay Collective. If you have children in the local primary schools, it's likely that they have already met him in his role taking lunchtime sport activities, as well as Rippa Rugby.
2011
The KiwiSport project that I am involved in is now into its second of three years. All primary schools are back on board for a second year as partners and Ahuroa School has just joined the project.
The Mahurangi Community Sport and Recreation project has taken another step forward in its goal to increase participation in local sport, with the offer from Wilmot Motors to service and maintain its vehicle for the next two years.
From 1992 to 1995 and then again in 2000, I coached rugby at Sendai Ikuei Gakuen Senior High School in Japan.
Winter sports registrations are mostly completed. If your son or daughter would like to play a winter sport this year, check out one of the many local clubs.
It’s been a glorious summer but all good things must end and soon we can look forward to the start of winter sport.
2010
Athletics New Zealand has identified 22 fundamental skills that children need from the ages of 3 to 8 in order to further their physical development and/or play sport.
It was great to see the large number of children and their parents at Shoesmith Domain recently. Children were being enrolled at the Warkworth Athletics Club and there were fun activities for all.
The ancient Greeks used games as preparation for skills needed in battle. The fundamental skills of run, jump and throw are just as important now as then, as a preparation for nearly all sports.
What children want from sport can be very different from what their coaches and parents want.
Many willing parents with lots of enthusiasm step up each week and help our young people, but what do they really know about how to coach kids?
This month we introduce Simon Mills. Over the next few months while Coastguard takes a break, Simon will write a regular column about anything and everything to do with community sport.
