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SPARK-ling Football Clinic
Ashokan Ramakrishnan
Calling all football enthusiasts (boys and girls) from the upper primary to lower secondary levels
Come have a blast and improve your footwork over three sessions of football clinics conducted during the June school holidays by the Lion City Sailors Football Club (LCSFC).
LCSFC is one of the most successful football clubs in Singapore and even won the Singapore Premier League in 2021 ! They have also recently participated in the prestigious Asian Football Confederation Champions League (ACL) in April 2022.
Dates: 3 June, 10 June and 24 June
Time: 1pm – 3pm
Venue: FutsalArena@Yishun
32 Yishun Central 1
Singapore 768809
LCSFC is also delighted to invite all participants and their family members to be a part of their exciting voyage into the 2022 domestic season by offering tickets to a LCSFC match on the last evening of the soccer clinic. LCSFC will be playing against the formidable Albirex Niigata (S) Football Club live at the Jalan Besar Stadium on 24 June at 7.45pm.
So what are you waiting for? Sign up now!
https://app.glueup.com/event/spark-ling-football-clinic-55312/
Fidget Toy Workshop - having fun with sensory tools
Ashokan Ramakrishnan
Our kids are often described as fidgety. They seem to need to move especially at the most inappropriate of times.
And too often, our instinct is to stop them from moving and to make them comply with what society considers as "normal" behavior needed for learning... believing that this is what is needed for them to pay attention ... or at least to be less distracting for the rest.
What if we are wrong ? and what if their brains just need their bodies to move so that they can focus better ?
There is increasing evidence on how fidgeting and movement (both vestibular and proprioceptive) triggers the brain to focus !
For more information on why and how fidgeting helps, check out this video below :
If you are curious and game to try something different ... sign up now for our Fidget Toy Workshop on 14 May from 10am to 12 noon.
The workshop promises to be loads of fun with lots of hands-on & interactive activities. And you know what they say about FUN ? It needs to be SHARED. So if you sign-up for the workshop, you get to bring along a friend for FREE !
The workshop is organized by students of NUS High School and is targeted at kids from 9-12 years old. Please see below details :
Date : 14 May 2022
Time : 10am to 12pm
Venue : NUS High School (Seminar Room) - 20 Clementi Ave 1, S(129957)
Activities : Learn to make paper based fidget toys (eg. fidget spinner, jumping frog and stress ball, etc ).
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT AN ONLINE EVENT. So participants will need to be vaccinated to attend the workshop.
PLACES ARE LIMITED SO PLEASE REGISTER EARLY.
https://app.glueup.com/event/fidget-toy-workshop-54613/
STUDY BUDDY ZOOM SESSIONS
Ashokan Ramakrishnan
Everything is a little more fun and less of a chore when we do it together.
By popular demand, we will be organizing our study-buddy program for tweens (10 to 14 years) over 8 weeks in May/Jun. The sessions will be held on Mondays and Wednesdays from 4.30pm to 6.30pm. During which, we have teen mentors who will supervise your child with their school work over zoom. The session incorporate the Pomodoro Technique broadly as follows :
15 min : Checking-in & setting intentions for tasks to complete
25 min : Round #1 of FOCUSED WORK (to be done individually)
5 min : Taking a break & tweens can clarify questions with mentors (if any)
25 min : Round #2 of FOCUSED WORK (again done individually)
10min : Sharing of the work completed and again tweens can clarify questions with the mentors (if any)
40 min : Playing games together (eg. role-play games like Werewolf as well as online games like uno, squabble, etc).
Please see the dates for the study-buddy sessions below. You do not have to attend all the sessions but do try to at least attend 10 of the 16 sessions. Each session will be held from 4.30pm to 6.30pm.
Wk 1 : 9 & 11 May
Wk 2 : 16 & 18
Wk 3 : 23 & 25
Wk 4 : 30 May & 1 Jun
Wk 5 : 6 & 8 Jun
Wk 6 : 13 & 15 Jun
Wk 7 : 20 & 22 Jun
Wk 8 : 27 & 29 Jun
Through these Study-Buddy Session, we hope to help our ADHD tweens build up the ability to stay focused through the power peer support. And hopefully, it becomes intrinsic and they will be able to self-initiate and sustain work in the future.
By the way, if you are not familiar with the Pomodoro technique, check out this video :
PLEASE SIGN UP USING THE LINK BELOW :
https://app.glueup.com/event/study-buddy-is-back-54668/
CALLING ALL YOUNG CHANGE MAKERS !
Ashokan Ramakrishnan
WE DON'T HAVE TO BE PERFECT TO DO GOOD !
SPARK will be launching a 3-months mentor training program for ADHD teens aged 15 - 19 year old. The program will take our teens through a personal transformation journey where he/she will discover their personal purpose and strengths as well as hone their entrepreneurial and collaboration skills. We believe that our ADHD teens have the potential to make positive change in the world. We hope that through this program, they will believe that they will see that too and strive to be a FORCE for GOOD !
If you know a teen who would benefit from our Young Change Maker program, contact us today.
For more info, please email : secretary@spark.org.sg
