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Reindeer Training in Progress!
We have just come to the end of the traditional Stretch-n-Grow Reindeer Training Camp and what great trainees we had this year! They practiced tiptoeing (an art that Santa’s reindeers are experts in), jumping, leaping, twisting and turning and many more crucial skills that Santa Claus would expect all great reindeers be able to do. [...]
Stretch-n-Grow Tameside Partners Sports Trusts
Stretch n Grow Tameside has been asked to become a partner of Tameside Sports Trust. Sarah Wardhaugh has also been asked to be involved in family weight management programmes in Tameside. This means that Stretch n Grow classes will be held weekly at leisure centres throughout Tameside for public access. Classes will be promoted and [...]
Do our children need to be having physical tests within the school curriculum?
Sports medicine specialists say governments across the UK have squandered the chance to create an Olympic legacy of fitness. Their conference in London is calling for mandatory “physical literacy” tests in schools, alongside reading and maths*. The argument put forward was that with rising obesity in the UK, the Olympic legacy opportunity and general sedentary [...]
Treking in Peru
Last February I made a commitment to take part in a charity trek to Peru in aid of The Manchester United Foundation (the charity wing of the football club,raisng money for charities such as Cristies,Francis House & UNICEF). With the support of family and friends I set about training and fundraising. On the day I [...]
Cranmore Park Business & Baby Show
Great weather affected the attendance at the ‘Business & Baby Show’ last weeekend in Cranmore Park exhibition centre, Solihull.The Stretch-n-Grow stand reflected a rather contoversial headline from one of our daily newspapers from earlier this year. British children ‘growing up to be couch potatoes’
Training with Gary Neville, at the Manchester Untied Training Grounds.
It was high noon on a September Friday! After finishing teaching in the morning I headed off with much trepidation to the Man U grounds. The worry was threefold: would they suss that I was a City fan; would the trek presentation scare me so much that I wouldn’t sleep until I got back from [...]
Come and See Us at Cranmore Park This Weekend 1st October
Come and See us! If you are located in the Midlands and you are looking for an opportunity to teach children about health and fitness and a whole lot more ! Come and visit us at the Business and Baby Show in Cranmore Park in Solihull on the 1st October 11am-5pm
CHILDHOOD & ADOLESCENT OBESITY: A WHOLE-SYSTEM, STRATEGIC APPROACH
22 September 2011 Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, London Below I will outline in point form key aspects that arose from attending this conference. Child measurement programme 2009/10 : nearly 1 in 4 adults and 1 in 10 children (2-10 yrs) are obese. 4th highest rate of obesity after the USA, Mexico [...]
Childhood & Adolescent Obesity ‘A Whole Stratergic Approach’
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists London 22nd September Stretch-n-Grow will be there! Tanya Davie will be attending representing Stretch-n-Grow. We will be reporting back on this event soon.
