By Kirra Livingstone
MALENY primary state school have begun travelling to the Maleny Bowls Club to learn and play lawn bowls, as a part of their curriculum for term 4.
The 4-week program started on November 4 and saw 20 kids from grades 5 and 6 play lawn bowls for the first time, which Secretary Brett Gillis said is expected to grow in numbers as the term progresses.
Throughout the term, the bowls club will facilitate everything the students need to play, including professional coaches who will teach the kids the basics.
“We provide two blue card coaches, so they will have people out there helping them, they’ll basically show them how to stand on the mat and how to throw the ball, the rest they’ve got covered with their hand eye coordination,” he said.
The Maleny Bowls Club’s main goal is to continue to grow the sport especially for the younger generation, and Gillis said they hope this curriculum change is permanent at the local primary school.
“We are hoping they will make lawn bowls a part of their curriculum all year round, in all four terms next year and we can cater for the preppies right up to the year sixers, we have no limitations,” he said.
“Hopefully from a year from now we will have had two or three good seasons of the kids participating in lawn bowls at our club.” The club is hoping this will assist in building their junior membership, as they currently have no junior lawn bowls members.
