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TORONTO — The Canadian Football League and Physical and Health Education Canada have launched a five-year partnership to expand flag football in schools across Canada.
The Flag Football in Schools program will give students from Kindergarten through Grade 9 an introduction to the sport through physical education classes. The program will be delivered in English and French and hosted on PHE Canada's Teaching Tools platform.
Resources for Grades 4 to 6 launch this month, with programming for Kindergarten to Grade 3 and Grades 7 to 9 to follow in 2027. A CFL Flag Football Skills Challenge, home-to-school engagement resources, student certificates and equipment kits are also planned as the program rolls out.
"Today's students are tomorrow's players, coaches, officials, volunteers and fans," CFL Commissioner Stewart Johnston said in a release. "By making football and flag football more accessible in schools, we're helping more young Canadians develop fundamental movement skills, experience the benefits of team sport and build lifelong connections to the game."
The program builds on Move Think Learn: Football in Focus, a resource launched in 2019 that has reached more than 1.13 million students through over 2,000 educators. The new initiative aims to equip an additional 5,000 educators and engage another one million students.
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