GAA Nursery Workshop Creative Ideas and Modified Games

“GAA Nursery Workshop: Creative Ideas and Modified Games through Fundamental Movement Skills” Mallow GAA Club, Saturday 27 th February 2016, 4 pm Presenter: Dr. Wesley O’ Brien

Publication Outputs 2013 -2015 Publications O’Brien, W. R. , Belton, S. , & Issartel, J. 2015. The relationship between adolescents’ physical activity, fundamental movement skills and weight status. Journal of Sports Sciences. O’Brien, W. R. , Belton, S. , & Issartel, J. 2015. Promoting physical literacy in Irish adolescent youth: The Youth-Physical Activity Towards Health (Y-PATH) intervention. MOJ Public Health. O’Brien, W. R. , Belton, S. , & Issartel, J. 2015. Fundamental movement skill proficiency amongst adolescent youth. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy. O’ Brien W, Issartel J, Meegan S, et al. 2014. An overview of the Y-PATH intervention - components and content. In: Seventh Physical Education, Physical Activity and Youth Sport (PEPAYS) Forum, pp. 97– 106. Belton, S. , Issartel, J. , Meegan, S. , Woods, C. , O’Brien, W. R. 2014. Y-PATH: Youth-Physical Activity Towards Health. Evidence and background to the development of a physical activity intervention for adolescents. BMC Public Health. O’Brien, W. R. , Issartel, J & Belton, S. 2013. Evidence for the efficacy of the Youth-Physical Activity Towards Health (Y-PATH) intervention. Advances in Physical Education. Belton, S. , O’Brien, W. R. , Wickel, E. , Issartel, J. 2013. Patterns of non-compliance in adolescent field based accelerometer research. Journal of Physical Activity and Health. O’ Brien W and Hegarty. 2013. Current directions in physical activity research in Ireland. In: Mc Carthy U (ed. ), Sixth Physical Education, Physical Activity and Youth Sport (PE PAYS) Forum The Physical Education - Physical Activity Relationship. Exploring and Evaluating the Evidence Base, University of Limerick, pp. 39– 47.

The Name Game…

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What are Fundamental Movement Skills?

Children have the developmental potential to master most of the FMS by the age of 6 years old Consistently, research highlights levels of youth FMS proficiency are low worldwide (Hardy et al. , 2013; (Gallahue and Ozmun, 2006). 2010; O’ Brien et al. , 2013; 2015). Sufficient evidence that FMS proficiency is positively associated with youth PA (Lubans School-based and club setting provides opportunities to learn basic movement skills (Mitchell et et al. 2010; Capio et al. , 2014) al. , 2013; Rudd et al. , 2015)

Statistical data amongst Irish adolescents specific to movement skill capabilities? (O’ Brien et al. , 2015)

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Why do you think learning FMS is important for children? • Discuss this question in pairs as to why you think these skills are important to acquire or learn?

FMS Assessment • A multitude of clinical motor skill assessments have been designed and integrated. • Many of these have a primary focus on the outcome of what the individual can achieve. • Emerging evidence suggests that too often, the focus of FMS assessment is on the product, rather than on the process (Cools et al. , 2009; Ulrich, 2000),

Motor Development Principles… 1. Children develop at different rates 2. Age does not predict motor ability 3. Children develop motor skills naturally through play 4. Skillfulness is a result of practice, not gender or heredity

“Motor skills do not just come as birthday presents. ” “They must be nurtured, promoted, and practiced. ”

wesley. obrien@ucc. ie