Remote schools around Australia use KIDDO to help all children develop the skills and confidence to be physically active throughout their lives. KIDDO provides a consistent and easily modifiable platform to provide programs, activities, and assessment data for remote schools with specific challenges, such as high staff turnover and multi-year group classes. 

Are you interested in learning about:

  1. How to set up multi-year classes on the KIDDO website
  2. Planning KIDDO lessons for multi-year classes
  3. Running lessons with multi-year classes
  4. Meeting curriculum requirements across all year groups
  5. Practical considerations for remote schools

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1. How to set up multi-year classes on the KIDDO website

  • For smaller, multi-age classes, we recommend creating two separate class groups in KIDDO: one for Foundation – Year 2 and another for Years 3 – 6. This setup is useful when using KIDDO’s assessment tools, as it ensures developmental appropriateness and easier progress tracking.

 

2. Planning KIDDO lessons for multi-year classes

  • When planning, look for common skills or curriculum links across the year levels. For example, you might run an “Invasion Games” unit with your Year 3 – 6 students, and a “Running and Jumping” unit for your younger students, but both can focus on similar movement patterns and be easily run side by side.

 

3. Running lessons with multi-year classes

The beauty of KIDDO is that it’s built around teaching Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS) so everyone can focus on the same skill, but work at different levels of complexity.

Some practical strategies:

  • Set up activity stations where students rotate through different skill challenges
  • Use peer support, such as a Year 6 buddy demonstrating or coaching a younger student
  • Use the 'Create Lesson' or 'Create Program' function on KIDDO to compile lessons and programs that can be adapted across year levels. Many games have built-in modifications to suit varying ages and abilities
 

4. Meeting curriculum requirements across all year groups

The Australian Curriculum is designed to be sequential, meaning skills build year on year. KIDDO aligns directly with these progressions and simplifies planning.

Here’s how FMS progression occurs in the Moving our Bodies strand:

  • Foundation: AC9HPFM01 – Practise fundamental movement skills in minor game and play situations.
  • Year 2: AC9HP2M01 – Practise fundamental movement skills and apply them in a variety of movement situations.
  • Year 4: AC9HP4M01 – Refine and apply fundamental movement skills in new movement situations.
  • Year 6: AC9HP6M01 – Adapt and modify movement skills across a variety of situations.

So even if you're teaching a mixed Foundation - Year 6 class, you can deliver the same core skill (e.g. catching), but adapt the expectations and complexity depending on the year level. KIDDO's lesson plans and progressions make this easy to manage. Teachers will have to monitor, assess, and track assessment of these strands (we suggest creating an Excel spreadsheet for the year to do this).  

 

5. Practical considerations for remote schools

  • Downloadable Resources: You can print lesson plans and activity sheets ahead of time, perfect for settings with limited or unreliable internet access
  • The huge database of Games:  Means you'll never be short of ideas and activities to teach
  • 54 new skills to teach: This helps teachers to feel confident to teach all skills and sports regardless of their background
  • Ongoing Support: KIDDO offers a dedicated support team, online help centre, PD modules, and step-by-step how-to videos to help you get the most out of the platform