Super Troopers, the new fitness programme for kids

IT’S homework, but not as we know it. More than 60,000 children from more than 300 primary schools around Ireland (and their parents) are treating the task of daily physical activity with the same importance as regular school homework.

Super Troopers is a Laya Healthcare initiative aimed at parents, teachers and four to 12-year-old children.

It purports to be Ireland’s first health homework programme and it aims to get kids doing their 60 minutes’ recommended daily exercise — currently four in five Irish children do less than this.