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Skill: Adapting to the Environment

This article is shared by Player Development Project Player Development Project Lead Researcher James Vaughan highlights recent experiences adapting to new environments to discuss the research around affordances, forms of...

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How do I support an unhappy player?

This video is shared by Player Development Project The question this week comes from Michael via email; “I’m new to the club and still getting to know the players. I...

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Let Them Play

This article is shared by Player Development Project Play is a fundamental human right for children. It is even recognised in article 31 of the UN Convention of Rights of the...

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Game Sense: Cricket

This article is shared by Player Development Project Game sense, how do we develop it? PE Teacher & blogger, Sporticus shares his innovative approach to PE and helping his students develop...

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Summer of sailing

Throughout next year, the world’s leading sailors will be competing in the Sail Grand Prix, providing ākonga with inspiration to design technologies to harness the power of the wind. Buoyed by the...

Balance is Better in Action

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CRIC-KIDS steps up to the wicket

Cricket is the first of three Women’s World Cups to be held in New Zealand over the next two years and ākonga across the country can get involved with the tournament through the...

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Was it specialising in one sport too soon?

In this series of Balance is Better articles, Sport NZ explores the myths surrounding youth sport and the shift in thinking needed to halt declining participation levels in kiwi teens....

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Tai Tokerau kāiako sports programme connects clubs and kura

A group of kāiako from Tai Tokerau are lending their expertise to the development of Tākarokaro, a sport engagement programme that supports ākonga to help get everybody in their community active. The setting could not...

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Learning through sport

As the country hosts a series of major sporting events over the next few years, Sport New Zealand is leading a project, called ‘In Our Backyard’, with four national sporting organisations...