Al Jazira Club is inspiring more than\u00a010,000 youngsters throughout Abu Dhabi to maintain an active life during online schooling, launching an interactive series of fitness and educational programmes that encourage kids to maintain an active lifestyle and take up sports, while also promoting sustainable practices and conducting experiments that reveal the science behind fitness.
\nApproved by the Ministry of Education and the Department of Education and Knowledge (ADEK), the 22-episode series from the club\u2019s Jazrawi Juniors programme is being rolled out into\u00a016 participating schools\u00a0throughout the capital city. The club aims\u00a0through this first phase of the project\u00a0to encourage youngsters aged between 6-13 years old to take part in a number of fitness and academic challenges.
\nSchools and individuals will compete against each other to win a whole host of prizes, as they record points upon successfully completing the online challenges, registering their participation online via the club website.
\nPupils have already started the challenges with Al Jazira FC goalkeeper and club captain Ali Khaseif, hosting an online session to teach youngsters on dealing with high pressure moments and how to do \u2018goalie squats.\u2019
\nCommenting on the launch of the schools programme, Khaseif said: \u201cAs professional athletes in Abu Dhabi, we have a duty to be role models to our communities. It is difficult to get into schools and communities during the current pandemic so to be able to launch the online programme is great news. Children taking part will love this because its great fun at the same time as keeping fit and learning. I hope everybody taking part really enjoys it and good luck to everybody competing for those prizes!\u201d
\nEach week the seven-minute episodes will feature stars from across Al Jazira\u2019s different sporting teams such as football, basketball, handball, judo and jiu-jitsu, giving youngsters a taste of the variety of sports on offer at the Pride of Abu Dhabi.
\nSpeaking of the initiative, Al Jazira\u2019s Group CEO, Mr Ali Youssif Al Hammadi said: \u201cAl Jazira are part of the fabric of Abu Dhabi and it is important that we remain close to our communities and fans during difficult times. Historically we have been able to inspire young people in Abu Dhabi through a number of events and workshops, so we wanted to keep that momentum going. Now we are the first club in the UAE to launch an online learning initiative, which will inspire and educate our young people in Abu Dhabi and its great to work with so many schools in our city.\u201d
\nMore schools are expected to join the initiative in the next phases as the programme continues to attract more school children.\u00a0Supporters can get a glimpse about Level Up with Jazrawi Juniors by watching the teaser via the club\u2019s official social media channels @al_jazira_fc on Instagram and @AlJAzira_uae_EN on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Al Jazira Club is inspiring more than\u00a010,000 youngsters throughout Abu Dhabi to maintain an active life during online schooling, launching an interactive series of fitness and educational programmes that encourage kids to maintain an active lifestyle and take up sports, while also promoting sustainable practices and conducting experiments that reveal the science behind fitness.
\nApproved by the Ministry of Education and the Department of Education and Knowledge (ADEK), the 22-episode series from the club\u2019s Jazrawi Juniors programme is being rolled out into\u00a016 participating schools\u00a0throughout the capital city. The club aims\u00a0through this first phase of the project\u00a0to encourage youngsters aged between 6-13 years old to take part in a number of fitness and academic challenges.
\nSchools and individuals will compete against each other to win a whole host of prizes, as they record points upon successfully completing the online challenges, registering their participation online via the club website.
\nPupils have already started the challenges with Al Jazira FC goalkeeper and club captain Ali Khaseif, hosting an online session to teach youngsters on dealing with high pressure moments and how to do \u2018goalie squats.\u2019
\nCommenting on the launch of the schools programme, Khaseif said: \u201cAs professional athletes in Abu Dhabi, we have a duty to be role models to our communities. It is difficult to get into schools and communities during the current pandemic so to be able to launch the online programme is great news. Children taking part will love this because its great fun at the same time as keeping fit and learning. I hope everybody taking part really enjoys it and good luck to everybody competing for those prizes!\u201d
\nEach week the seven-minute episodes will feature stars from across Al Jazira\u2019s different sporting teams such as football, basketball, handball, judo and jiu-jitsu, giving youngsters a taste of the variety of sports on offer at the Pride of Abu Dhabi.
\nSpeaking of the initiative, Al Jazira\u2019s Group CEO, Mr Ali Youssif Al Hammadi said: \u201cAl Jazira are part of the fabric of Abu Dhabi and it is important that we remain close to our communities and fans during difficult times. Historically we have been able to inspire young people in Abu Dhabi through a number of events and workshops, so we wanted to keep that momentum going. Now we are the first club in the UAE to launch an online learning initiative, which will inspire and educate our young people in Abu Dhabi and its great to work with so many schools in our city.\u201d
\nMore schools are expected to join the initiative in the next phases as the programme continues to attract more school children.\u00a0Supporters can get a glimpse about Level Up with Jazrawi Juniors by watching the teaser via the club\u2019s official social media channels @al_jazira_fc on Instagram and @AlJAzira_uae_EN on Twitter.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27653,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27652\/revisions\/27653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}