Play Skill

🧩 Our Owner –

Phil is the face behind Play Skill, bringing over 15 years of experience in early childhood and health & fitness.

He’s passionate about helping kids build confidence through movement, while developing the fundamental skills they need to grow, learn, and build real-life skills.

Phil loves spending his time with his young family, Bec and PJ, and takes pride in being an active Dad.

Outside of Play Skill, Phil trains for HYROX, continually pushing his own limits in strength and endurance, and coaches both adults and children privately, helping individuals build confidence, strength, and lifelong healthy habits.

His motto is simple:
Do your best and forget the rest.

🧩 The Play Skill team hope you all had a great Easter.

We look forward to moving into Season Two after these school holidays!

🧩 Our Week Ten theme for the season is Safety.

In Week Ten, children explore simple safety concepts that help keep them safe in everyday life, including road safety and listening to important instructions from adults.

Through our soccer focus, children practise stopping, starting, and changing direction while responding to cues, helping reinforce the importance of awareness and listening.

With colours as our learning focus, children continue strengthening colour recognition by moving to coloured cones and reacting to colour calls during games, similar to recognising signals like traffic lights.

Our younger children build confidence through simple stop and go movements and learning to pause when they hear instructions. Our older children develop coordination, awareness, and decision making through dribbling pathways, colour called goals, and listening for stop and go cues.

By blending safety awareness, colour learning, and sport, this week supports listening, reaction skills, and confidence while keeping sessions active and engaging.

🧩 Our Week Nine theme for the season is Hygiene.

In Week Nine, children explore the importance of keeping our bodies clean and healthy. Through our soccer focus, they learn that taking care of our bodies helps us stay strong, energetic, and ready to play.

With colours as our learning focus, children continue strengthening colour recognition by running or dribbling to coloured cones and responding to colour cues during games.

Our younger children build confidence through simple movements like kicking, running, and collecting the ball, while learning routines such as washing hands and taking care of their bodies. Our older children develop coordination and decision making through dribbling pathways, colour called goals, and listening carefully for instructions during games.

By blending healthy habits, colour learning, and sport, this week supports coordination, listening skills, and positive daily routines while keeping sessions fun and active.

🧩 Our Week Eight theme for the season is Animals – Sea Animals.

In Week Eight, children explore how animals move in the ocean and how movement can look different in water compared to land. Through our soccer focus, they practise moving the ball while imagining the movements of sea animals such as fast fish, slow turtles, and gliding stingrays.

With colours as our learning focus, children continue strengthening colour recognition by running or dribbling to coloured cones and reacting to colour cues during games.

Our younger children build confidence through playful movements like “swimming” runs, gentle kicks, and exploring space with the ball. Our older children develop coordination and control through dribbling pathways, colour called goals, and listening for cues while moving quickly or slowly like different sea animals.

By blending ocean themed imagination, colour learning, and sport, this week supports coordination, listening, and movement variety while keeping sessions active and engaging.

🧩 Our Week Seven theme for the season is Animals – Land Animals.

In Week Seven, children explore how animals move on land and how their bodies move in different ways. Through our soccer focus, children use running, chasing, and quick changes of direction to move like different animals.

With colours as our learning focus, children continue building recognition by running to coloured cones, chasing coloured targets, and reacting to colour cues during games.

Our younger children build confidence through playful animal movements like stomping, crawling, and fast “cheetah runs.” Our older children develop speed, coordination, and reaction time through short sprints, chase games, and quick direction changes while controlling the soccer ball.

By blending animal imagination, colour learning, and sport, this week develops agility, coordination, and listening skills while keeping sessions energetic, playful, and engaging.

🧩 Our Week Six theme for the season is Culture – Around the World.

In Week Six, children explore the idea that play connects us all. Through our soccer focus, they learn that children all around the world play the same game, building early cultural awareness in a simple and positive way.

With colours as our learning focus, children match cones to flags and images, strengthening colour recognition while making movement based decisions.

Our younger children build confidence through independent movement and simple kick and run choices. Our older children develop control and decision making through dribbling pathways, colour called goals, and listening for cues.

By blending culture, colour learning, and sport, this week supports coordination, listening, and inclusion, while keeping sessions active and engaging.