Fitmedia Fundamental

Skills and Aptitude Assessments

The mastery of Fundamental Movement Skills is crucial for children.

But assessing FMS is a time-consuming and difficult process. Each skill must be demonstrated, observed, practised, executed and scored against a set of standardise criteria. At the same time, boys and girls develop at different rates and children’s physical literacy improves with age. And it can be difficult to keep consistent scoring between different situations, classes and time periods.

Fitmedia Fundamental is the first physical assessment systemwhich has been designed to address these measurement issues.

It is specifically aimed at primary school children, and assesses fundamental movement skills and basic motor development for children in Key Stage 1 and 2.

It comprises six different types of measurements, including Body Control, Object Control, Flexibility and Locomotor Skills. These identify and assess how the child’s movement and control skills are developing, to ensure that they have mastered the basic physical skills needed as they grow.

In addition, the system includes some basic assessments such as handgrip and sprints, to measure the child’s basic fitness levels. This enables the child’s teachers to identify early any causes for concern, such as low fitness in any particular area.

The testing is quick, fun and easy to carry out. Our qualified trainers come to you and assess the children on site,which can be done in curriculum time. We bring all the equipment and do everything – you don’t need to do anything!

The assessments can be linked with other measurements, including our mental health assessments

Benefits of Fitmedia Fundamental

Fitmedia Fundamental is unique and the only physical measurements system which:

provides a scientific assessment of the development of a child’s key physical skills
measures both the development of physical skills and basic fitness
provides assessments which are specifically tailored to each age group, to take into account different stages of development
is based on extensive scientific paediatric data from the EU, Scandinavia and the UK.

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Testimonials

I have worked with Fitmedia over a number of years and always found them to be forward thinking and professional. With an increase in inactivity and obesity, I think there has never been a better time to use their programmes, whether as a school or club, and find out why many schools and clubs are now reaping the benefits from their systems.

Dominic Fenton, DJF Sports Consultancy

What I love about Fitmedia testing is the uniqueness of the testing, that it can be applied to any individual who wants to improve their fitness levels without discriminating.

Michelle Robinson, Olympic Triple Jumper and Mentor

We wanted the [Fitmedia] system in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, because it provides us with an evaluating tool to enable us to gain real data on the health and fitness levels of young people who comes to the park from the local schools. We are delighted to be working with Fitmedia and feel they have a unique and innovative system which fits with our “Active People, Active Park” philosophy.

Karen West, Head of Sport and Health, London Legacy Development Corporation

I would highly recommend Fitmedia to come in and work with your school. They were fantastic, they were positive and were able to provide us with the raw data that we needed to see how much our children had improved with their fitness.

Figen Bektasoglu, Head Teacher of Coppermills Primary School

We are working with Fitmedia to assess the levels of physical fitness and literacy and general wellbeing in 10 primary schools in the London Borough of Brent. This will provide us with baseline information which we hope to use to inform future strategic, policy and funding decisions.