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Ascent Footwear Teaching Australian Children an Important Life Skill

Announcement posted by Ascent Footwear 17 Jul 2017

Ascent Footwear renowned for it’s range of comfortable, supportive & durable shoes has conducted free foot health education lessons to over 60000 Australian school children.

As an Australian footwear company, we are concerned about the development of children’s feet. We value research, development and engaging with the medical community to provide high quality supportive footwear. We advocate education to promote foot health and safety. As part of our social responsibility we offer free educational lessons for school children. Most people are not aware that adult foot ailments frequently have their origins in childhood. Neglecting foot health also invites problems in other parts of the body such as the legs and back.

Through our school education program and participation in the community we hope many ailments suffered by the next generation will be diminished.

School Ready Program:

The transition to school can be a complex journey, with many new experiences and challenges to face. Ascent has designed the School Ready Program to prepare students for their first step into a school shoe. This lesson covers important foot health information in a fun and practical way for early childhood classes.

Delivered in kindergarten and childcare centres, this fun incursion prepares students for life in the school yard, an environment where correct footwear is an essential part of every day.

Shoe Lace Tying Lesson:

An international poll involving 6,017 parents, found two-thirds of kids aged three to five years knew how to navigate a smartphone or iPad, 70% could play a basic computer game, 58% could ride a bike, but only 8% could tie their shoe laces.

The free shoe lace tying lessons conducted by Ascent not only help children learn an important life skill, it will create independence and assist in developing their fine motor skills.  This fun and interactive lesson guides the students through the nine steps of tying shoelaces until they are able to master the task and independently tie their own.

Foot Health Lesson:

As Leonardo da Vinci said, ‘the human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art’. The Ascent foot health lesson explores the engineering of the human foot and addresses the importance of wearing correctly fitting footwear. Using contemporary fitting technology and specially designed training aides, students are given the opportunity to discover their own work of art.

 

For more information and to get your school involved in these free education programs contact

07 32655660 or to register your interest visit:

www.ascentfootwear.com.au/education-program