A couple of weeks ago, Amy had her very first gymnastics competition and I thought I'd share some of my snapshots with you because she just looked too cute with her little French braids and leotard. Okay and because I'm obviously super proud of her but more on that later. Amy had only joined her school's gymnastics team a couple of weeks before the competition and she's by far the youngest on ...
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The importance of swimming lessons
Swimming is a life skill! In fact, David Sparkes, Chief Executive of the Amateur Swimming Association, is right when he says 'Swimming is the only subject on the National Curriculum that can save your life.'. But despite the Department for Education stating that pupils should be able to swim 25 metres unaided on their front and back and use a range of personal survival skills by the end of primary ...
Getting kids active helps create healthy habits
Getting kids active is something really close to my heart. Not only for selfish reasons, they fall asleep so much quicker when you let them run off their energy, but also because it's so beneficial for your kids' development and health. Obesity figures in the UK are on the rise and hearing that 1 in 3 children between the ages of 2 and 10 are overweight, 1000 of them referred to hospital for ...
Amy’s first 800m race
If you've been following my Instagram feed over the past couple of weeks, you might have seen the odd picture of Amy running around our local athletics field and although it was mainly for fun, it was also to make sure she'd know what to expect when running her first 800 m race this weekend. We obviously didn't do anything too crazy, just some casual stretching and running as I'm no expert ...