Kids get life skills and fitness tests

By Tebogo Senosha

Altus Sport with assistance from students of the Department of Sport and Leisure Studies of the University of Pretoria tested over 800 primary school kids from various townships in Tshwane recently.

The tests were to establish a baseline on life and sport skills, as well as fitness levels. The event was mainly made possible by FIFA FFH and Women Win from Holland.   

Tests on the same kids will again be conducted at the end of the year in order to measure the impact of Altus Sport’s programmes implemented by its youth sport leaders on the kids.

The Altus team has presented numerous sport workshops and events which include sport and recreation management, facilitator’s training, circuit training, generic sport coaching, mass sport participation, total fitness, gymnasium training and Olympic education.

 Liana Laubscher, Director of Altus Sport, praised the positive manner on which the kids sacrificed their Saturday and enthusiastically participated in the program.

“Fitness and health should be the main priority in kids’ lives as it will help them perform better especially at school,” said Laubscher.

 Dr Engela van der Klashorst of the University of Pretoria said it was a pleasure to reach out to the kids and that Altus Sport actually created a “laboratory” for further research in this respect, further elaborating that: “This is a great initiative and it will benefit these kids enormously. We are grateful that we are part of this magnificent initiative”.

Altus Sport aims to promote personal development, physical activity and literacy among youth through sports.