Senior buddies from Craigieburn’s Aitken Creek Primary School participated in a special ‘Better Buddies Games’ event at Richmond Football Club this week.

The Tigers recently announced a three-year preferred charity partnership with The Alannah and Madeline Foundation and its Better Buddies Framework.

Aitken Creek is one of three primary schools the Club has sponsored to participate in the Better Buddies Framework.

The Better Buddies Games event is held each year in May, and encourages Better Buddies schools across Australia to participate in non-competitive activities where all students feel included.

The games reinforce the importance of being active and give children a way to include each other outside normal buddy activity times. 

They also highlight the importance of cooperation, sharing and taking turns, negotiation, managing conflict and other important pro-social skills. In addition, it provides students with a range of games they could play during break times, which also helps to reduce bullying and other negative behaviours.

The Club funded busses for the senior buddies at Aitken Creek Primary School to travel from Craigieburn to Richmond (a 45-minute trip) to meet Richmond midfielder Nathan Foley, and learn simple games.blog comments powered by Disqus