FitKid Grimsby is ready for the summer holidays

Summer holidays are on their way

It’s nearly that time of year again and Fitkid Grimsbyi s ready for the summer holidays, so don’t delay, book your sessions today.

Our holidays sessions will include fun games including team, tag, parachute, tandem space hopper relay games, olympic based relay games and craft activities.

FitKid Grimsby Holiday Clubs run from 9am-3pm for ONLY £11 per child per day

26 & 27 July and 1, 2, 7, 8, 14 August – British Legion Club, waltham

30 & 31 August – Scartho Infants School, Edge Avenue, Scartho

Come and join in the fun, contact adele@fitkid.co.uk for more details and to confirm your booking.

FitKid builds confidence and self-esteem

FitKid helps build children’s confidence and self- esteem

It’s tuesday evening and having just returned from the PTA meeting at my daughters school, I was excited to read an email from Adele, who is the FitKid franchisee in the Grimsby and surrounding area.

Adele wanted to share with me the feedback she had received from a parent of a child attending one of her FitKid sessions. Reading the feedback brought a massive smile to my face and I wanted to share it with you all 🙂

“FitKid welcome all children, Adele gives children individual attention building  their confidence and self- esteem.  If children are new Adele will pair them up so they feel included. Shaya keeps going back to FitKid as she has lots of fun and Adele offers new activities that take alot of thought and creativity. Shaya feels confident to try new activities and challenges herself more and more. The confidence, being part of team games and the new experiences that FitKid provides has been beneficial for Shaya even at School especially during P.E. and after school clubs” Nirvana Ghandour, Parent of Shaya

It’s comments like this that make all the hard work involved with running FitKid worthwhile. Seeing the excitement on the children’s faces when they attend classes is priceless and I hope over the coming months and years we can assist more children to develop positive attitudes to physical activity which is fun and rewarding.

To find out more about Adele’s activities, please email her at adele@fitkid.co.uk.

If you would like to run FitKid in your community, please contact me at nicky@fitkid.co.uk for more details.

FitKid teams up with Bumpeez to encourage more children to be active

What an excting start to 2012, FitKid has teamed up with popular collectable toy, Bumpeez during the Easter holidays to encourage more children to get active whilst having fun.

 FitKid will be holding Easter Workshops where children will receive a free pack of Bumpeez and be taught a range of exciting and interactive games to play.

The latest Health Survey for England (HSE) data has predicted that 25% of children will be obese by 2050. To combat this worrying statistic, FitKid aim’s to provide children with fun fitness activities to help improve their health and encourage them to make healthy lifestyle choices.

Using fun play equipment including balls, bean bags, hoops, spacehoppers and a parachute, FitKid engages the children in multi skilled sessions that assist with developing the key skills for sport in addition to providing children with health benefits.

It’s fantastic to have teamed with Bumpeez to encourage more children to be active while having fun. Bumpeez are great to get children active and playing games with their friends which fits with the ethos of FitKid”

Priced at £1.99 a pack, Bumpeez are a fantastic pocket money purchase for parents and kids. There are over 100 characters to collect including special limited edition gold, silver and swirly Bumpeez.  Each Bumpee consists of two parts – a circular chip featuring a cool character, which is encased in a highly tactile, removable silicon ring that comes in a variety of different shapes and colours. When the chip is in the ring the Bumpee can be bounced against walls and used to play more than 25 games and perform tricks with the different shaped rings requiring a varying degree of skill to bounce.

“This is a great marketing initiative, which will increase awareness of the Bumpeez brand at a key retail period,” comments Jeroen Menting, Managing Director, Glow Europe. “Partnering with FitKid will highlight the active nature of Bumpeez as well as encouraging more children to interact with Bumpeez through fun and engaging activities.”

To find out more about attending our workshops or to offer FitKid in your community, please email enquiries@fitkid.co.uk or call 0203012 0202

FitKid launch Online Physical Activity Participation Cash Reward Scheme to assist Schools and Nurseries to encourage children to be more active

Let’s get these kiddies active 🙂

Im really excited to announce FitKid’s new partnership with Gym Miles to launch a NEW Children’s physical activity participation online programme which will assist schools and nurseries to track the participation levels of children in and out of the curriculum. It will also reward families using the scheme with Cash Rewards.

Schools are able to sign up for the scheme with FitKid and will be able to upload the participation of the Children’s in PE sessions at school. In addition the child’s carers will be able to upload the child’s out of school activities which will reward the child with points. The child’s carers can redeem points online with over 200 retailers and the parent and school receive cash rewards in return for the points redeemed.

It’s so very excited to be joining forces with Gym Miles to launch the New FitKid Cash rewards participation scheme. For many years now schools have been telling FitKid that lots of out of school participation data  goes unrecorded but our new scheme will assist to capture this data and also reward parents with cash rewards for using the scheme.

“We are delighted to be partnering with FitKid to launch this programme which I believe is a welcome innovation in the drive to encourage and measure physical activity in the young to”  commented Niall Jordan from Gym Miles.

The scheme will enable schools and nurseries to also look at statistics on participation in and out of school for each child, download resources including games, certificates, work sheets etc. It is a very simple scheme to use and FitKid believe it is a break through in the tracking of data for all.

For more info on how your school can sign up, please email enquiries@fitkid.co.uk  or visit the website at www.fitkid.co.uk

 

Great PE co-ordinator review

 Adele receives fantastic feedback

A great session was run by Adele for a recent  Fun Fitness Week.

The children and staff had a super time and really enjoyed the activities delivered by Adele.  

Joanna Perry, P.E Co-Ordinator stated “It is only through support from people like yourself that we are able to offer the children such a varied range of activities during this annual event and your time and input is greatly appreciated.

To find out more about Adele’s sessions and parties, please email adele@fitkid.co.uk

 

 

FitKid new classes coming soon

Updates …………

FitKid has recently trialled a new exciting class that will be announced very soon.

I have no doubt the kids are going to love the sessions having seen the footage from the trial classes and the big smiles on the children’s faces.

To find out more about becoming a FitKid franchisee, please email enquiries@fitkid.co.uk

Adele’s sessions help Boe win all her Sports day races

Boe loves The LazyTown Sports Club classes delivered by Adele in NE Lincolnshire

It was lovely to hear from Adele today who had received the following email from one of the parents who attends her LazyTown Sports club classes with her daughter.

“My daughter, Boe age 3, has been attending Lazy Town Sports Club classes every Saturday morning after enjoying the ‘Lazy Town’ celebration I booked for her 3rd birthday. Boe has made lots of new friends and really enjoys all of the varied and enjoyable activities which are accompanied by the exciting Lazy Town music.

Boe’s confidence has grown each week and I have seen an improvement in her balance, co-ordination and ability to play/share with other children. Boe’s Kindergarten teacher has also commented about Boe’s advanced sporting abilities compared to the other children in her class and explained how Boe helps to teach her class mates how to play the games and use equipment that she has learnt with Adele. Boe has even come first in all of the activities in her recent Sports Day which I believe was helped by the extra activities that she does with Adele every week. “Ria McKeon

Keep up the great work Adele, high quality sessions are the key to successs in helping children lead an active lifestyle. I just knew when Adele came onboard with FitKid as our franchisee in Lincolnshire that she was going to make positive changes to children’s lives.

Our job is so rewarding and worth all the time and effort put in to ensure the children attend sesisons which are both beneficial to their health but also fun and engaging.

If you are a passionate individual who like Adele wants to make positive changes to children’s lives, please email enquiries@fitkid.co.uk to find out how you can get involved in your community.

Come and have fun at Legoland Live

Legoland Live on the 16th July 2011

FitKid is preparing for a return to Legoland Live this year, come and join in the fun with our team and play lots of games.

Also join Justin Fletcher, Postman Pat® and Jess the Cat, Fireman Sam, the Zingzillas, Fifi & the Flowertots and Roary the Racing Car & Big Chris as they take to the stage in their all singing and dancing shows. 

We look forward to seeing you.

Please email enquiries@fitkid.co.uk for more information on our activities.

FitKid at Esporta, Humberston receives fantastic feedback

I’m so pleased to hear Adele’s FitKid sessions are going so well

Adele Murray is our franchisee in Grimsby and she has been running sesisons this week at The Esporta, Humberston Country Club and has received this amazing feedback from a parent whos kids attended her session on tuesday.

“Just a quick email to say thank you for today. Jack and Lucy loved it!  I was a bit worried this morning as Lou had decided that she wasn’t coming if I wasn’t staying so I didn’t know how it would go but as we were walking back to the car this afternoon, they both wanted to go back tomorrow so I think you have been a resounding success!

I’ve told them that if you do it in the summer they can go once a week so please let me know if you carry it on. I’ve never sent them to kids clubs in the hoildays but with work I really needed a day to get jobs done I can’t get done with the kids around and because they had such a fab time and I knew they weren’t stuck somewhere sat in front of a TV or computer game, I didn’t feel like the guilty mum” Nicola Sharp

Keep up the great work Adele, you are doing fantastic 🙂

To find out about Adele’s sessions, please email adele@fitkid.co.uk

Mandy helps raise funds in the memory of Alexis Rose

Today I was speaking with Mandy, who is my franchisee in Scotland and she told me about a fundraising event she will be helping at soon in memory of Alexis Rose.

It brought tears to my eyes when she told me the story below –

“Alexis Rose Tribute Fund”

Alexis Rose, our beautiful baby daughter, was 16 months old when she died very suddenly of meningitis this year. She had bags of personality and was by nature a fighter- born nearly 3 months early and weighing 2lb 12 ounces she spent a while in hospital alongside her twin sister but quickly grew in strength. She was always laughing and making us laugh, we will never forget her toothy smile and the way she would look over to make sure people were watching before she did something naughty. She was so happy and healthy and we never dreamed that anything could ever take her away from us, but meningitis ended her life within hours. We have decided to continue Alexis’s fight and refuse to let meningitis beat us by raising money to fund research into this terrible illness.

This is a very sad story and I hope the fundraising that Mandy is assisting with, will help to raise vital funds to aid the research into meningitis.

To find out how you can help, please email mandy@fitkid.co.uk