
Carrington Academy understands the importance of spending time with your family! Carrington offers the following extracurricular activities to allow families the opportunity to enroll in programs while their children are at the campus. Every independent contractor must pass a background check including criminal records checks before they are allowed admittance in the center. All contractors provide all services onsite and are never allowed to leave the center with children. Each company is selected based upon references and experience in the individual areas.
Tap, Ballet, and Dance
Each center uses independent companies for their tap, ballet, and jazz lessons. Please check with your specific center for class dates and times.
Playball
TWO YEAR OLDS
The two's program is age specific and suited to this particular development stage. In this program we lay down the basic foundation of movement in order to enable the child to accomplish more challenging sport related skills in later years. The focus of the two's the process involved of (the child) being exposed to a formal environment and to a variety of movement skills. This forms the basis of the two's program.
THREE YEAR OLDS
This program covers the following basic areas and provides a sound foundation for the next age group.
1. Introduction to basic ball skills.
2. Development of student's enjoyment for, and confidence to participate in sporting activities
3. Social integration with other students
4. Development of concentration
The emphasis is on having fun and playing games with a ball so that the child's first introduction to sport is a happy and positive one.
FOUR YEAR OLDS
This program covers the following basic areas and provides a sound foundation for the next age group. 1. Introduction to basic ball skills. 2. Development of student's enjoyment for, and confidence to participate in sporting activities 3. Social integration with other students 4. Development of concentration The emphasis is on having fun and playing games with a ball so that the child's first introduction to sport is a happy and positive one.
This program covers the sections listed below and provides students with a solid grounding and a basic competence in ball skills. The children are exposed to a wide variety of different skills in each lesson. It is in this stage that they have the opportunity to practice the skills more rigorously developing competence.
1. Development of a wide variety of ball skills.
2. Emphasis on individual participation.
3. Overcoming the fears that dis-encourage sports participation.
4. Introduction to organized ball skill activities.
Soccer and Tennis
Soccer and Tennis is provided by an independent company onsite at each campus. The program is geared toward teaching children new skills to learn more about soccer and tennis while becoming more confident with key athletic concepts.
Karate
Each center uses independent companies for karate lessons. Please check with your specific center for class dates and times.
