What we do

Sport Wellington Region's Education Team educates through many sectors in relation to Sport and Physical activity.  In particular the major focus is in the education settings of: Early Childhood, Primary Schools and linking people with a disability into sport and active leisure.


Early Childhood

Sport Wellington Region's goal in Early Childhood is to:

Promote, educate and support the importance of quality physical movement experiences for all children under 5 to grow and to become New Zealand's most successful sporting and physically active community.

Sport Wellington Region Outcomes in Early Childhood are:


Active Movement

Active Movement is a nationwide SPARC initiative that is responsible for promoting the importance of physical activity and movement for young children to develop active lifestyle habits. The Active Movement initiative embraces movement as a fundamental learning strategy for the 0-5’s age group, and helps to develop and strengthen the relationship between body and brain.

Active Movement is about engaging in quality physical movement experiences which develop and enhance spiritual, emotional, social, cognitive and physiological growth of the child. Active Movement embodies the whole child.

Active Movement Workshops
Active Movement Events
Active Movement Resources


Primary Schools

Active Schools

Active Schools is a Sport and Recreation New Zealand (SPARC) initiative to help address the research indicating that overall physical activity levels of children and young people are declining.  A growing proportion of children and adolescents are insufficiently active to gain health benefits associated with moderate levels of physical activity.

SWR and the Active Schools initiative aims to improve physical activity opportunities and experiences in our primary schools by:

  • Providing schools with a quality teaching resource outlining co-curricula and cross curricula physical activity opportunities for kids throughout the school day
  • Working with teachers to help them get the most from the Active Schools teaching resource
  • Supporting collaborative school and community-wide physical activity planning

The Active Schools Facilitators at Sport Wellington Region are currently working closely with 37 schools throughout the region to help them become Active Schools which:
  • Provide child-centred physical activity
  • Take ownership to sustain an active environment and programmes that enhance physical activity
  • Are part of and contribute to an active community

Active Schools Workshops
Active Schools Events
Active Schools Resources

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Inter-School Sports

Over 140 primary and intermediate sports tournaments are organised throughout the year by the 23 primary and intermediate sports clusters in the Wellington Region.

SWR can provide advice for the sports clusters to ensure sports tournaments are of quality and an enjoyable experience for all concerned. This could involve:
  • Meeting with event organisers for pre event planning
  • Linking in outside providers to the tournament and or overall strengthening of the zone.
SWR maintains regular communication with the convenors of each zone and endeavours to send a representative to the respective zone meetings. SWR collates zone information and produces a calendar of zone sports tournaments. If you require information for your zone events please contact your zone convenor in the first instance.


Sport Opportunity

Halberg Trust Sport Opportunity Adviser works with early childhood, primary, intermediate and secondary schools to ensure disabled children have access and participation opportunities in the same PE programmes, school and interschool sport, physical activity and education outside the classroom programmes as their able bodied peers.

The Sport Opportunity Adviser could:

  • Work 1:1 with specific disabled children
  • Offer advise on developing inclusive events
  • Develop a No Exceptions Action Plan
  • Deliver No Exceptions training as staff professional development