Little Ninjas Programme 
4-6 yrs

Benefits
Graduations

Our Academy provides the most exciting and innovative programmes both you and your child will ever experience in the area of child development. 

When answering the question, “What do you expect your child to gain from the study of the Little Ninjas Programme?” the majority of parents indicate that they want their children to learn the values taught at the Academy - Self-control, concentration, respect, responsibility, self-discipline, and more. If you are a parent searching for ways to counterbalance the negative messages bombarding your children from movies, television and other areas, search no further!

Our Little Ninjas Programme is an age-specific curriculum that we have professionally designed to teach children important life skills in a fun, exciting and enriching manner.  

Your child will achieve more than just learning to kick and punch. Our programme will help improve your child’s basics motor skills, as well as your child’s positive mental attitude. Our teaching method is based on disguising martial arts skills into games and fun activities helping your child learn in an easy and exciting way. 

Here are the 8 main Life Skills 
that are taught in the Little Ninjas Programme: 
- Focus  - Memory

- Teamwork - Discipline
- Control - Fitness
- Balance - Co-ordination
These skills are necessary for participation in any sport or activity.  Upon completion of our Little Ninjas Programme your child will become focused and motivated to achieve any goal in life.  

The 8 Little Ninjas Skills    

The Little Ninjas curriculum specifies one skill per week in order to fully develop each particular skill. 

Many of the drills are designed as games so that students have fun and learn the skills without even realising it.   

 
1. FOCUS    

Helps students excel faster in physical activities, become a better listener and be more focused at school.  This skill will also help with aim and improve listening and reaction skills. 

   5. TEAMWORK Essential for building character, which will help your child to make friends and become a better leader.
2. MEMORY A child's brain needs exercise just as much as their body.  Memory development is great exercise for a child's brain and our exercises definitely help them to use it.   6. BALANCE Developing this skill at an early age will help them in many activities and aids good posture development.
3. FITNESS In the age of computer games, it's important for kids to understand the importance of being physically fit.

If you child can’t burn off all that extra energy exercising, how will they burn it off?  

 7. CONTROL Having control means making good decisions and control helps to build confidence.  
4. DISCIPLINE Our drills help create the vision that discipline is fun and rewarding.  We teach them to take pride in doing the right thing and encourage them  to show courtesy to everyone, be enthusiastic in learning, be willing to help others and try to be the best they can in training, at home and in school.   8. CO-ORDINATION This will help children be less clumsy in their movements which will aid in their overall performance in many tasks and activities.  

Progressing through the syllabus
The Little Ninja belt colours start from White through to Red Stripe.  The Skill Stripe system allows the Little Ninja to have regular smaller assessments, which result in the awarding of a particular stripe/badge.  Each Ninja level has a specified number of skill stripes (one for each Ninja Skill).  The Little Ninja must collect all of these before advancement to the next Ninja level.

Little Ninja Graduation
 Once all Skill Stripes and Merit Badges have been awarded, the Little Ninja will be ready for Graduation to the next level.  Parents will be invited to the Graduation, along with family and friends in order to make it a special occasion for the Little Ninja.  We held our first graduation in July 2002.  Click here for details.

At the graduation, students will perform all the skills and techniques once again and upon completion, will be awarded their new belt and certificate showing their promotion.  This is a very special day for the students and gives them a great feeling of achievement and a reward for all their efforts.

On completion of the Little Ninjas Programme, the Little Ninja will have developed all the necessary skills and personal development requirements to participate in the Kickin' Kids Programme.

 

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