Frank Dando Sports Academy, Ashwood, VIC
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| Thursday | 7:45 am - 5:00 pm |
| Friday | 7:45 am - 5:00 pm |
| Saturday | Closed |
| Sunday | Closed |
| Monday | 7:45 am - 5:00 pm |
| Tuesday | 7:45 am - 5:00 pm |
| Wednesday | 7:45 am - 5:00 pm |
Opening Hours
Closed now, Opens in 4 hours
| Thursday | 7:45 am - 5:00 pm |
| Friday | 7:45 am - 5:00 pm |
| Saturday | Closed |
| Sunday | Closed |
| Monday | 7:45 am - 5:00 pm |
| Tuesday | 7:45 am - 5:00 pm |
| Wednesday | 7:45 am - 5:00 pm |
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The Frank Dando Sports Academy (FDSA) is a specialist school for boys with emotional and behavioural problems. It was founded with the aim of providing a supportive and therapeutic environment where these boys could receive an education while also addressing their specific needs.
The academy was established in 1980, inspired by Frank Dando, a renowned teacher and expert judo player who recognized the potential of sports in positively impacting the lives of troubled youth. Dando believed that engaging in physical activities and team sports could help build discipline, self-esteem, and social skills, which are often lacking in boys with emotional and behavioural issues.
Teenagers today face a number of challenges from a number of sources. Emotional, behavioural and mental health issues can lead teens to behave badly, affecting their ability to do well in school, hold down a job, and stay out of legal trouble. It’s when any of those issues interfere with their healthy progression
Our biggest variation from standard practice is our emphasis placed on Physical Education and the way it is taught. In fact, practical skill in Physical Education is the first consideration when recruiting a staff member. It is assumed that if they can teach a significant sport capably and with control over the class, the boys will transfer their positive attitude into their academics. This is admittedly an unusual educational approach.
When the school began in 1980 the Registered Schools Board inspectors accepted that since the school was a special school for bright underachievers some liberties could be taken with the usual academic prescriptions, They agreed that the schools rather unusual emphasis on Physical Education meant some other subjects such as Science, Music and Art could be regarded as peripheral though in practice they tend to appear and reappear with some frequency. To further add weight to the success of the method, Frank published a thesis in 1981 demonstrating a positive correlation between cognitive ability and physical activity.
?The school's current Principal, Ziad Zakharia’s conducted further research in between 2005-2007. His masters degree thesis found that, after a year of this program, the students made a positive personality change and achieved academic, physical well being and sporting success. He decided to test this by a pre-test and post-test of self-image administered by an independent psychologist.
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