In conjunction with Basketball Victoria’s Walking Basketball initiative and Basketball Australia’s Aussie Hoops program, the FDBA will be hosting
‘Bring a Grandparent Week’ from June 5 until June to 10.
The purpose is for our Aussie Hoopers and Mini Hoopers to show their grandparents some new tricks and for our young tackers to learn a thing or two from their grandma, grandpa or a senior friend during their Mini Hoops/Aussie Hoops session.
All sessions of both Aussie Hoops and Mini Hoops will be modified during the Bring a Grandparent Week (June 5-10).
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The first half of the session will be for the kids to show their grandparent their form of basketball. The grandparents will go through the drills with their grandchild as the warmup to the main event. These drills/games will be modified to ensure the safety of the older participants and make it enjoyable for everyone.
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The second half will be a Walking Basketball game where the grandkids see how their grandparent plays Walking Basketball. This can either be kids versus adults or whatever everybody is comfortable with.
Following the TUESDAY session of Aussie Hoops; we will be providing all Aussie Hoopers and their grandparents an afternoon tea, just like we do for Walking Basketball sessions.
Our AUSSIE HOOPS sessions for Bring a Grandparent week include:
- Monday Program (GIRLS ONLY): 5th June (4:00pm – 4:45pm)
- Tuesday Program: 6th June (4:00pm – 4:45pm) – Afternoon Tea is provided after this session
- Wednesday Program: 7th June (4:00pm – 4:45pm)
- Thursday Program: 8th June (4:00pm – 4:45pm)
Our MINI HOOPS sessions for Bring a Grandparent week include:
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Monday Program: 5th June (9:30am – 10:15am)
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Wednesday Program: 7th June (9:30am – 10:15am)
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Friday Program: 9th June (9:30am – 10:15am)
We then encourage our Aussie and Mini Hoopers to come down to support their Grandparents at Walking Basketball during the week (providing the individual child’s school schedule permits). Walking Basketball during this week will be held on Thursday, June 8, at 11:00am.
Walking Basketball sessions are held at Dreamstreet Lending Arena and is completely free to any participants and will run on Thursday’s at 11:00am.
- Register for Walking Basketball via the following link: HERE
Our coaches will be facilitating and running the program, the plan is to be on court for about 45-60 minutes and then the session will end with a morning tea, just like we do for all our Walking Basketball sessions.
If you want to learn more about our Walking Basketball sessions, click HERE
If you have any questions, please email:
Tanya Thomas: tanya.thomas@fdba.com.au