Feb Player Profile - William - 3 1/2yrs

Child's Name: William Flanagan

Age: 3 ½ years old

Venue/s attended: Balmoral

How long have you been coming  Little Kickers?  1 ½ years

Favourite Little Kickers game? When I get to do small kicks  

What do you like best about Little Kickers?  The new games

What do you want to be when you grow up?  A pirate

Favourite healthy food?  Crackers

Who is your favourite coach?  Merryn

What do you love? My pillow

Parent or Carers Perspective on Little Kickers: 

The teaching at Little Kickers has helped William improve his ability to concentrate and listen to instructions. He enjoys the games and the wonderful coach's enthusiasm is contagious.

Sept Player Profile - Joshua - 4yrs

If you're ever in trouble just ask Dr Joshua and he'll make everything better ... 

Child's Name:  Joshua House

Age: 4

 (Joshua & one his favourite Coaches)

Venue/s attended:  Lincoln

How long have you been coming to Little Kickers?  About 4 weeks nowFavourite Little Kickers game?  I love all of them, but my favourite is 'What's the time Mr Wolfy!'What do you like best about Little Kickers?  Apart from the football skills gained, the children are taught to listen to the teacher.

What do you want to be when you grow up? A Doctor!Favourite healthy food?  StrawberriesWho is your favourite coach?  Coach Leanne & Coach Gareth
What do you love? Going to the park, swimming and going to 'Clip and Climb'

Parents Perspective on Little Kickers: 

The children are taught the essentials of listening, respecting others, while having fun. Well thought out exercises that the children enjoy and keep them interested. 

Player Profile - Nicholas - 4 years 8 months

Choo Choo!!

We look forward to hearing about all your adventures as a Train Driver and maybe one day you can give all the future budding footballers a ride on your train. 

Child's Name:  Nicholas Henderson

Age: 4 years 8 months

Venue/s attended:  Point View School, Dannemora

How long have you been coming to Little Kickers?  6 months

Favourite Little Kickers game or imagination?   Kicking the ball into the net

What do you like best about Little Kickers?  The colour games

What do you want to be when you grow up?  A Train Driver 

Favourite healthy food?  Bananas

Who is your favourite coach?  Coach Ashley and Coach Sonia

What do you love? Mummy and Daddy

Parent or Carers Perspective on Little Kickers: 
Little Kickers is fantastic for helping children with their fine motor skills.  We really enjoy how the activities help with their learning such as counting and colours.

 

Player Profile - Gabriel - 3yrs 11 months

Thank you to the lovely, nearly 4 yr old, Gabriel (with a bit of help from his parents) for answering our questions. 

May you be a safe racing driver when you grow up!

Name: Gabriel Taylor

Age: 3 years & 11 Months 

Venues attended: Takapuna & Northcote Int.

How long have you been coming to Little Kickers? 2 years

Favourite Little Kickers game?   "the running around one" ( relay race) "and the one where Mat says 'Gabriel on blue and Marco on red' and then you score a goal!"         

  

What do you like best about Little Kickers? Wearing my football kit & fast yellow shoes, and scoring goals.

                                                                    

What do you want to be when you grow up?  A racing driver.

Favourite healthy food?  Carrot & Cucumber.

Who is your favourite coach? Coach Anna & Coach Mat

What do you love? Batman Lego & Pepper Pig  

Parents Perspective on Little Kickers:  We love LK. Apart from being a fun thing to do with Gabriel every Saturday morning, It's been a great way for him to develop his physical strength and balance skills progressively as he grows.

The Little Kickers team would like to wish you a very happy and special 4th Birthday 

Ho, Ho, Ho from Auckland Central East

Ho, Ho, Ho everyone!  

Where oh where has our year gone? Here at Little Kickers ACES we have been super busy.  Our classes have been really busy and we even had time to open a brand new venue at Kohi.  Our next stop will be Remuera, and apologies that this didn't happen this year, but 2014 is when we will look to open.

Our coaches have really enjoyed coaching your little ones and they all seem to have such a great time that they tell me 'it's the best job in the world!'  Looking to next year we will start back on 1st and 2nd February and continue to develop our games and make them even more fun.  We are also hoping to get our Mega's together with other areas and have a mini competition later in the year!

On behalf of all of my lovely coaches and myself we wish all our super parents and amazing children a SUPER SUNNY SUMMER, and we look forward to seeing you all again in February!!

Big Santa hugs

Ruth

Little Kickers classes are coming to Howick & Manukau!

Little Kickers provides boys and girls from 18 months through to 7 years of age with an early introduction to football (soccer) and is coming to Howick and Manukau in the New Year by young mum Janet Cho.

Janet had always wanted to do something to engage children in the local community, and to run her own business. With two sons, aged 2 years and 4 months, Janet knew that going back to work full-time wasn’t going to work for their family.

“When I first came across Little Kickers I knew it would be perfect for my energetic two year old, then when I learnt of the franchise opportunity I knew it would be perfect for me too!

It enables me to spend more time with the children and I won’t feel like I’m missing out on part of their childhood.  I also noticed that there was little around offering a gentle introduction to little team sports for pre-school kids in the local area."

We have so much demand coming from the area and Janet is just so in-tune with what Little Kickers is all about that we can't wait to get classes started and have a ball with your kids!

Janet is starting classes in Dannemora and Pakuranga in Feb & March 2014 and more due to start throughout the year so enquire today to secure your place.


EARLY BIRD SPECIAL: enrol now and get 50% off registration + 1 free trial class or an additional class onto your enrolment saving over $30.00!

E-mail: manukaueast@littlekickers.co.nz

Phone: (09) 273 3338

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Play not Push - Little Kickers Philosophy 

The Little Kickers pre-school football programme first started over 10 years ago in London, England.  Since then, the programme has grown phenomenally, and now provides over 20,000 enthusiastic young footballers with the chance to let of steam and get fit each week.  There are classes operating in locations as diverse as the UK, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, Canada, Cyprus, Ecuador and of course NZ each week.   This growth looks set to continue as children from around the world take the opportunity to gain an early introduction to the beautiful game of football. 

The program was developed by early childhood educators in conjunction with top UK FA coaches and works on the basis that children are much more likely to learn if their imaginations are engaged and skills are introduced through fun games, rather than formal drills. The company’s motto “Play not Push” reflects this, and the emphasis that Little Kickers place on providing a fun environment for children to learn in, rather than a competitive one. 

Player Profile - Lucas G - 3 1/2yrs

We have the adorable 'Super Hero Lucas' as our Player Profile from Mt Eden...

Name: Lucas Gibbons

Age: 3 1/2yrs

Venues: Mt Eden

How long have you been coming to Little Kickers? 2 years

Favourite Little Kickers game?  Scoring goals!

What do you like best about Little Kickers? Playing with the other kids and having a lot of fun

What do you want to be when you grow up?  Super Hero – like Super Man!

Favourite healthy food? Sushi

Who is your favourite coach? Andrew!

What do you love? My Mummy and Daddy and my little sister Pippa

Dad's Perspective on Little Kickers:  It’s great to see Lucas learning skills and coordination in the drills. He really loves it and likes playing with the other kids in his class.

Thank you Lucas (& Dad) for answering our questions, I hope he does grow up to be a Super Hero of some sort!

Player Profile - Dejaun - 5yrs 

Introducing our player profile this month!

A future sprinter in the making, please welcome Dejaun from one of our Auckland Central East franchise!

Name:  Dejaun Naidoo

Age: 5 

Venues of Little Kickers attended: Meadowbank, Glendowie

How long have you been coming to Little Kickers? 14 months 

What is your favourite little Kickers game? The jet plane game and learning new tricks

What do you like best about little kickers? Playing a game of soccer at the end in a team

What do you want to be when you grow up? A sprinter like Usain Bolt!

What’s your favourite healthy food? Apples, strawberries and cucumbers

Who is your favourite coach? Coach Raphael

What do you love? Listening to music, dancing and soccer.

Parent says: 

Little Kickers is a great way to develop ball skills in children in an enjoyable way. Children go through drills and learn how to control the ball without even knowing it as they having so much fun. Our son has grown from skill to skill and it is great to now see him developing a team player spirit as well! Dejaun looks forward to his soccer game every week and so do we!

Welcome to 2011!

2010 has come to an end, and what a rollercoaster year it was! Sport was at the forefront of entertainment in 2010 with the Football World Cup which the All Whites did amazingly well in – even came away un-defeated!

So what will 2011 bring? The build up to the Rugby World Cup will likely be the key topic of conversation in the sporting world. We’ve now entered the year of the Rabbit, which according to the Chinese Zodiac is the luckiest year, and I’m hopeful it will yield some sporting luck!

A New Year usually comes hand-in-hand with resolutions, and promises to oneself - to improve your life or the lives of those who surround you. Admittedly, you and I both know that a few weeks into the New Year, having promised yourself that you will eat healthily, you will be tucking into your Chinese takeaway. New Year’s resolutions often do not work for one reason or another; however, it shouldn’t take a New Year to prompt you to take steps to improve your lifestyle.

As adults (I use that term loosely!) we are constantly encouraging our children to become better at whatever they do, willing them to have the constant desire to increase their own motivation and to achieve greater things. Yet, we often fall short of it ourselves year after year. At Little Kickers, from session to session we aim to improve many different aspects of children’s lives; our carefully planned sessions include progressions that challenge the children both mentally and physically. The reason why adults’ resolutions never appear to work is because they are usually not enjoyable, or involve people making a great sacrifice. Children, however, improve their skills at our classes successfully because they are enjoying themselves.

When thinking about this, I set myself a New Year’s resolution that would both benefit me and be enjoyable. I have decided to join a social indoor football team, as great as I am with a size 1 Little Kickers kid’s football I feel I should start up or join a social indoor football team to get back into the game.

I would be interested to hear what your New Year’s resolutions are; why not leave a comment and let me know. Best of luck with them!

Here’s to a successful 2011.