Game On Updates

Citizen Security Program (CSP) pilot community Mt. Dor, has completed the basic training for Game On! Coaching. Two community groups for the area, Mt. Dor Youth & Revelations SDA are coming together to host a 8 week Game On football and life-skills camp for children 8-16 years old during the July-August period. TTASPE will be evaluating the coaches at the camp before certifying them as Game On Coaches. This approach used in this community is expected to be replicated to other CSP communities across T&T.

Jump Rope Session at Port of Spain

On June 9^th 2010, TTASPE in collaboration with the Trinidad and Tobago Red Cross hosted a Jump Rope for Heart student session at the St Paul Sporting Facility.

Lead by our JRFH Coordinator Shaunna Thomas, the students were exposed to a variation of single rope skills, partner skills, single long rope and a brief introduction into the Double Dutch activity skill.

We would like to thank the Trinidad and Tobago Red Cross for the opportunity to host the session and all the teachers and students who participated.

Here is a full listing of the schools who were represented at the session:

·       Petit Valley Girls` R.C. Primary School

·       Beetham Government Primary School

·       Eastern Government Primary School

·       Chinapoo Government Primary School

·       Our Lady of Laventille R.C. Primary School

·       Bethlehem Girls` R.C. Primary School

·       Newtown Girls` R.C. Primary School

·       Laventille Girls ` Government Primary School

·       St Margaret` s Boys` R.C. Primary School

·       Diego Martin Government Primary School

·       Laventille Boys` Government Primary School

·       Belmont Girls` R.C. Primary School

·       Mucurapo Girls’ R.C. Primary School

 

Ready & Able Multi-Sport Program

Ready & Able Multi- Sport Program for persons with disabilities continues at the Chaguanas Indoor Sporting Complex, tomorrow 9th June 2010. Start time 5:30pm

MASSIVE TURN OUT AT CARONI JUMP ROPE FOR HEART FESTIVAL

The Trinidad and Tobago Alliance for Sport and Physical Education hosted a Caroni District Jump Rope For Heart Festival at the Chaguanas Regional Indoor Sporting Complex on Friday 28th May, 2010. Over three hundred and fifty students from 24 schools within the educational district participated in the festival.

 
 
The main focus of the festival was to promote healthy lifestyles and to activate some hype and tweak the interest of the students, teachers and the Ministry of Education personnel involved in the Jump Rope for Heart program at the various schools, by providing the students with an opportunity to display their various jump rope skills such as double dutch, v stop and crisscross. 
 
Sponsors of the festival included Nestle/Milo, United Way, The Australian High Commission and the Ministry of Education.