Resources & Publications

Fun Play Trailer

The "Fun Play Trailer" is an Early Childhood initiative and is packed full of games, goodies and equipment for use by those organising children's programmes from 0-8 years. The cost to hire the trailer is $10 per length of hire.

A full list of the equipment it contains:

Bean Bags, play tunnel, balance beam set, hurdle rings, poles, shape frames, balance boards,super soccer goal, foam hopscotch, numbered markings, playballs, jumping bags, 12 sided dice, body rockers, spiky balls, smiley balls, hula hoops, cones and play parachute.

For further information please contact:

Sport Wairarapa
(06) 370 9157
Email: info@sportwairarapa.org.nz

Early Childhood

Active Movement Activity Guides: 14 brochures that cover different areas of development for children aged 0-5 years. They have practical ideas and games that use little or no equipment.
Active Pack: A pack of equipment useful for movement development contains: 6 hoops, 8 buckets, 2 scooter boards, 25 hotspots, 12 scarves, 20 flyswats, 20 balloons, 2 balloonees, 1 pyramid ball, pack of 24 bubbles, carry bag. $290 (GST inc.)
Moving to Learn by Robyn Crowe and Gill Connell – Book: Making the connection between movement, music, learning and play (birth to 3 years). This resource helps recognise and develop the physical milestones and stages children go thorough. Includes a 67 CD track of original movement songs, chants and finger plays. $45 (Plus postage and handling)
Active Movement DVDs: Series one and two. Free Resource Please call 0800 ACTIVE to order your copy to be sent out.
Getting Ready for School - DVD: An overview of the important stages of physical development that a child needs to have passed through in order to cope with educational tasks required in the classroom. $35 (plus postage and handling)
Active Movement in the Water: The Active Movement in Water resource aims to provide opportunities for under-fives to develop foundation aquatic skills. For more information about this resource please visit www.swimmingnz.co.nz
For any enquiries or information on our resources please contact: Rachel Spriggens Active Movement Advisor Sport Wellington Region (04) 389 0224 Email: rachels@sportwellington.org.nz

Primary Schools

Active Schools

Kiwidex:
The Kiwidex manual is a fantastic user friendly resource for teachers developed by SPARC. This is an updated version to the manual that has proven valuable in the past. It provides a range of ideas that teachers and other physical activity providers can use to develop a programme of daily physical activity sessions particularly suited to primary and intermediate school aged children.

This resource is available from SPARC

Fundamental Movement Skills Manual:
This new resource (published in October 2007) builds on the materials in the 1997 Kiwisport Fundamental Skills Manual, provides greater emphasis on progressive development of skills. The progressions are broken into three learning phases: Discovering, Developing, Consolidating.

The resource groups skills and activities under three fundamental movement skill categories: Locomotor skills, Stability skills, Manipulative skills.

This resource is available from SPARC

Physical Activity for Healthy Confident Kids guidelines:
The Ministry of Education, in partnership with SPARC, have recently produced guidelines for sustainable physical activity in school communities. The guidelines will help your school community to plan and provide opportunities for students to enjoy many physical activity experiences.

The guidelines contribute to the Mission-On campaign, a package of initiatives aimed at improving the lifestyle of young New Zealanders by improving their nutrition and increasing their involvement in physical activity.

This resource is available from the Ministry of Education

For enquiries or more information on these resources please contact:

Sport Wellington Region

(04) 380 2070
Email: info@sportwellington.org.nz

Inter-School Sports

School Sports Events - Quality Planning and Performance:

The School Sports Events Resource is targeted at anyone responsible for organizing school sports events, particularly inter-school/zone events.
The resource, which includes ring-binder with CD, has all the tools and templates to ensure you deliver a well-organized, quality event. The folder is structured into tab sections to file info such as meeting minutes, contact lists, events, and Outside providers infomation. The event planning templates are user friendly and modifiable, and are both in hard copy and on CD.

To obtain a copy of the resource, you must have attended a School Get Set Go workshop.

For further infomation please contact:

Antony McCormick
Active Schools Facilitator
Sport Wellington Region
(04) 389 0217
Email: antonym@sportwellington.org.nz

Sport Opportunity

Equipment for Hire - Wheechairs

The Sport Opportunity programme has wheelchairs for hire.

Kool Stride Buggy

The Kool Stride Buggy could be your school’s outdoor mobility solution for children with a disability in a wheelchair. This buggy can be hired through Sport Wellington Region, for a minimal cost of $5.00 a day, to enable children in wheelchairs access to uneven terrain or areas where access in a conventional wheelchair is difficult. The Kool Stride Special Use buggy has a light-weight aluminium frame, folds flat and can carry up to 70kg.

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Court Chairs

Four court wheelchairs are available for hire to assist with curriculum teaching and/or coaching. These chairs offer a “reverse inclusion” model and enables able-bodied people to simulate the disadvantages a disabled person may experience in a sport or physical activity situation.

To hire equipment please contact:

Marguerite Christophers
Sport Development Advisor
Sport Wellington Region
(04) 389 0234
Email: margueritec@sportwellington.org.nz