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We have an existing and long established Infant football programme
running at Balderstone Community Sports Hall every Saturday morning
and Friday evening. Many of these players have progressed to join
clubs and play in competitive teams. Others are still on the programme.
Within this programme we also run our own skills grading programme!
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Your child can start on this existing programme at any time - do it NOW . . .
A new 'PALS CLUB' PROGRAMME will start in May 2009.
The 'PALS CLUB' PROGRAMME will be based at a specialist new Unit and will be delivered alongside our Infant Football T.I.P.S. Programme to facilitate progression for both child and carer.
The PAL programme IS PERFECT FOR NON-RESIDENT FATHERS (as well as
for step parents, mothers, grandparents, older brothers and sisters and carers)
and encourages three important dimensions of father/parent/carer involvement:
1. Engagement – a father’s experience of direct contact
and shared interactions with his child in the form of caretaking,
play, or leisure / sport – delivered within a structured and
regular environment, utilising 'Positive Parenting' skills, professional
staff and links with community clubs for continued engagement in the
longer term.
2. Accessibility – a father’s presence and availability
to the child, irrespective of the nature or extent of interactions
between father and child - delivered on a local basis to overcome
the problems of time and transport.
3. Responsibility – a father’s understanding and meeting
of his child’s needs, including the provision of economic resources
to the child, and the planning and organising of children’s
lives – delivered utilising the support of local agencies established
to provide parental support and mentoring.
