New Report: Fundamental Movement Skills among Children in New Zealand
This report provides a national picture of movement skills among Year 4 and Year 8 students, with skill levels measured in 2006 compared with skill levels measured four years earlier in 2002. The report is available in the Guidelines, Reports and Presentations.
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We want young New Zealanders to develop a love of sport and recreation that leads to lifelong participation.
To achieve this, young people must develop fundamental movement skills so that they have the right building blocks to play sport for life.
The ‘Developing Fundamental Movement Skills’ resource uses play and simple activities to get kids involved in games. With these concepts young people can move easily into modified sports and adult sports.
Activities are simple and require only basic knowledge to teach or coach.
Developing Fundamental Movement Skills resource - downloads
Click on the links below to download sections of the Developing Fundamental Movement Skills resource:
Cover and Acknowledgements
Fundamental Skills - Cover and Acknowledgements (PDF, 221 Kb)
Fundamental Skills
Fundamental Skills - Introduction (PDF, 307 Kb)
Locomotor Skills
Fundamental Skills - Locomotor Skills - Walking (PDF, 475 Kb)
Fundamental Skills - Locomotor Skills - Running (PDF, 629 Kb)
Fundamental Skills - Locomotor Skills - Dodging (PDF, 514 Kb)
Fundamental Skills - Locomotor Skills - Jumping (PDF, 437 Kb)
Fundamental Skills - Locomotor Skills - Hopping (PDF, 207 Kb)
Fundamental Skills - Locomotor Skills - Skipping (PDF, 256 Kb)
Fundamental Skills - Locomotor Skills - Additional Activities (PDF, 382 Kb)
Stability Skills
Fundamental Skills - Stability Skills - Landing (PDF, 491 Kb)
Fundamental Skills - Stability Skills - Balance (PDF, 430 Kb)
Fundamental Skills - Stability Skills - Rotation (PDF, 299 Kb)
Fundamental Skills - Stability Skills - Additional Activities (PDF, 436 Kb)
Manipulative Skills
Fundamental Skills - Manipulative Skills - Throwing (1 of 2) (PDF, 448 Kb)
Fundamental Skills - Manipulative Skills - Throwing (2 of 2) (PDF, 1.1 Mb)
Fundamental Skills - Manipulative Skills - Hands (PDF, 447 Kb)
Fundamental Skills - Manipulative Skills - Feet (PDF, 1.12 Mb)
Fundamental Skills - Manipulative Skills - Implement (PDF, 1.11 Mb)
Fundamental Skills - Manipulative Skills - Additional Activities (PDF, 492 Kb)
References and Websites
Fundamental Skills - References and Websites (PDF, 64 Kb)
Order printed copies of ‘Developing Fundamental Movement Skills’.
Purchase hard copies of the ‘Developing Fundamental Movement Skills’ resource online for $22.50 each (plus GST and postage) from the Sport NZ Store. Go to the Sport NZ Store.