{"id":620944,"date":"2026-04-21T07:47:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/620944\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T07:47:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:47:29","slug":"afl-club-bullish-about-school-clinics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/620944\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL club Bullish about school clinics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABOUT 60 schools across western Victoria have signed up for an AFL club\u2019s program promoting football and physical activity.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulldogs in Schools \u2013 Footy Skills Program is set to run in terms two and three.<\/p>\n<p>Western Bulldogs club staff attend schools and run participation-focused sessions that include game-based activities.<\/p>\n<p>Last year about 5,500 participants from 59 schools took part in the sessions.<\/p>\n<p>The program includes schools from Smythesdale, Bacchus Marsh, Clunes and Ballarat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think everyone\u2019s been really pleased with the program in itself,\u201d Campbell Waring, the Western Bulldogs\u2019 Ballarat engagement manager, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd with Ballarat being our second home that we\u2019re able to run some of these community programs for them as well and get the kids involved which has been fantastic.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-121347\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/260410-Bulldogs3_03329-1-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"799\"\/>The Bulldogs in Schools \u2013 Footy Skills Program includes schools from Smythesdale, Bacchus Marsh, Clunes and Ballarat.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a great program over a number of years now, just keeps going from strength to strength.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Waring said the club had received positive feedback about how it engaged children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes it\u2019s the students\u2019 first exposure to football,\u201d he said. \u201cWe get a good take-up with it because sometimes it\u2019s the first time, [so] we just want them really to have fun with the sessions and enjoy perhaps have a little bit of learning as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it\u2019s really just about fun and making it enjoyable with the kids, so that hopefully they want to participate at some level with football as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the benefits included promoting sport and recreation and physical activity.<\/p>\n<p>For the Bulldogs, he said the clinics helped develop the club\u2019s connection to the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re actually seeing a lot more red, white and blue at the footy colours day, so it\u2019s a real strong component now,\u201d Waring said.<\/p>\n<p>Schools interested in hosting the clinics can phone Waring on 0427 839 548.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ABOUT 60 schools across western Victoria have signed up for an AFL club\u2019s program promoting football and physical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-620944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}