A Whole School Approach to Physical Activity

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ACTIVE PARTNERSHIPS

• A Whole School Approach to Physical Activity

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Matt Lowther

• National Physical Activity
• Policy Co-ordinator,
• Scottish Executive

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Schools (Health Promotion and Nutrition) Bill

• Provision of food and drink in schools
• Health promotion in schools
• Place a duty on education authorities to
  endeavour to ensure that all schools are health
  promoting
• As a result of the Bill, all education
  authorities must ensure that health promoting
  school strategies form part of the annual
  statement of improvement objectives which then
  forms the basis of the school development plan
• Incorporates physical activity, food and mental
  health

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Physical Activity Element

• Steering group formed
• Asked to produce a framework for taking a whole
  school approach to physical activity
• Framework would identify what schools could and
  should be doing to promote physical activity
• The idea being that a national framework would
  aid planning, build consistency and help share
  examples of good practice
• Also help all the major delivery partners (ASC,
  School Travel Coordinators, Cultural
  Coordinators) identify their specific contribution

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Schools Bill Physical Activity

• Active Travel
• Active Curriculum
• Out of School Hours
• Cross-cutting Themes
• School ethos/culture
• Partnerships
• Facilities and environments
• Staff training and education
• Policy and planning
• Monitoring and evaluation

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How does it fit?

• Health Promoting Schools
• Builds on and strengthens HPS
• A Curriculum for Excellence
• Learning through health and well being
• Guidance informing outcomes currently under
  development

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Aims of Today?

• Us to update you and share examples of good
  current/good practice
• You to give us your thoughts / comments through
• The formal workshop sessions
• Informally through the flipcharts or face-to-face
• Collect examples of current/good practice (forms
  in delegate packs)
• All presentations available via HPSU website

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Gavinburn Primary SchoolOld KilpatrickWest
Dunbartonshire
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Active Travel The Evidence and the Practice
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Promoting active school travel evidence base

• Jo Inchley
• Child and Adolescent Health Research Unit
• The University of Edinburgh

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Modes of travel to schoolScottish Household
Survey 2005
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School journeys current trends

• Younger children (aged 4-11yrs) more likely to
  walk than older children (aged 12-18yrs)
• Travel by car more common among younger children
• Travel by bus more common among older children
• High household family income (gt40k) positively
  associated with car use and negatively associated
  with walking
• Bus travel is more common in rural areas and
  walking is more common in urban areas. Travel by
  car does not vary much by area type.
• Since mid-1980s, walking to school has fallen
  (69 ? 53) and travel by car has risen (6 ?
  21). There has been little change in bus use.
• Proportion of 7-8 year olds who travel to school
  independently decreased from 80 in 1970 to 10
  in 1990

Sources http//www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statist
ics/Browse/Transport-Travel/TrendTraveltoSchool
Hillman et al., 1990
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Active Travel days pupils who walked or cycled
to school every day last week
Source Physical Activity in Scottish
Schoolchildren (PASS) study
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Relationship between active school travel and
physical activity

• Walking to school associated with higher levels
  of physical activity among primary schoolchildren
  (Cooper et al., 2003, Cooper et al., 2005)
• Among 13 year olds, walking to and from school
  was associated with a mean increase of 25.9
  minutes MVPA per day compared with those who
  travelled by car, bus or train (Alexander et al.,
  2005).
• Walking to school had no impact on overall weekly
  physical activity among 5 year olds (Metcalf et
  al., 2004)
• Cycling to school associated with higher levels
  of cardiovascular fitness compared with walking
  or car among 9-15 yrs olds (Cooper et al., 2006)

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Influences on active travel to school

• Benefits include
• Physical activity
• Development of spatial skills road awareness
• Knowledge of local environment
• Promotes independence responsibility
• Barriers include
• ENVIRONMENTAL - distance, traffic, weather
  conditions, unsafe road crossings, condition of
  footpaths, lack of lockers
• SOCIAL - personal safety, lack of company
• PARENTAL - parental work patterns, parental
  views on importance of physical activity

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Evaluation of active travel across the
primary-secondary school transition pilot projects

• Perceived benefits of walking and cycling to
  school
• Fitness 60
• Social 40
• Health 37
• Environment 32
• Practicality 29
• Good exercise 27
• Fun 26
• Fresh air 22
• Safety 10
• Less traffic 7

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Evaluation of active travel across the
primary-secondary school transition pilot projects

• Reasons for not walking or cycling to school
• Live too far away 48
• Not enough time 24
• Too much to carry 8
• Busy roads 7
• Not allowed 5
• Feel unsafe 4
• Dont like walking / cycling 3
• Other 21

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Evaluation of active travel across the
primary-secondary school transition pilot projects

• What would encourage you to walk or cycle to
  school?
• Continuous pathway 86
• Safer road crossings 84
• Wider footpaths 82
• School lockers 81
• Less traffic 80
• People to walk with 78
• Shorter distance 76
• Safe cycle storage 76
• No worries about bullies 76
• Better street lighting 70

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Who says P.E. class cant start at your door?
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Nicola Boyle Project OfficerSustrans
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• 31 would like to cycle to school
• 88 owned bikes
• 1 cycle to school

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What is a School Travel Plan?
Process Consultation Living document Sign of
commitment
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Why are we looking at the school journey?

• Scotland's National Transport Strategy
• Promote cycling and walking as sustainable forms
  of transport especially for short journeys.
• Reduce congestion in town and cities caused by
  the school run
• Inactive Children
• 26 of boys and 37 of girls in the 2-15 age
  group are not meeting guideline physical activity
  levels.

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Funding

• Cycling, Walking and Safer Streets (CWSS)
• Tackling The School Run Funding
• Local Sponsorship
• Fundraising

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Success and sustainability can be achieved
without funding!
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Sustainable success

• Bring new members into action group
• Include STP in school development plan
• Curriculum links
• Link to other schemes ie Health Promoting Schools
  Accreditation
• Involve pupil council
• Introduce weekly/monthly/ annual events
• Continue surveys - measure effectiveness
• Keep up the profile - publicity
• Adapt the plan as needs change

• NEVER LET IT SIT ON THE SHELF!

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Kinloss Primary, Moray

• Active travel group
• -walking bus
• -progressing their travel plan to cater for the
  growing numbers of cyclists.
• 20 cycle
• Cycle training

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Skene School, Aberdeen

• P6 P7 pupils, HT STC
• Pupil led questionnaires
• STP as leaflet
• Hi Vis vest sponsorship
• Travel Diaries, Green the tree, Walking Bus

Reduction in car use - 10
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Oban High School, Argyll and Bute

• Took part in Transition Pilot in 2006
• This year they tied it in with Enterprise
• Transition is now fully integrated into Oban High

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Parkview Pupils Turf the Street, Glasgow

• To launch the Parkview Travel Plan there was a
  temporary road closure
• A day of fun activities for all the pupils to
  engage in

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East Linton Primary, East Lothian

• School Travel Plan
• Travel survey data highlighted the need for a
  link path
• Project received funding from TSR
• The school anticipate that this link will allow
  over 60 of the pupils to travel to and from
  school by foot or cycle.
• Provides a benefit to the whole community

Before and After
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Summary
Develop a school travel plan which encourages and
enables safe and active travel in partnership
with staff, pupils, parents and other key
partners Implement and regularly review the
school travel plan in partnership with the School
Travel Coordinator Ensure continual support for
the promotion of safe and active travel Ensure
provision within the school of resources and
facilities to support active travel (e.g. cycle
racks, lockers, training) Integrate active
travel into existing transition programmes
including both nursery-primary and
primary-secondary transition

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Presentation and workshop discussions
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Coffee
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Active Curriculum
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Benny Lawrie

• National Development Officer
• Scottish Health Promoting Schools Unit

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Curriculum

• Health Well Being Programme
• Physical Education
• Peer Education
• Active Classroom
• Outdoor Learning

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Peer Support Mentoring Encourage and support
physical activity peer support and mentoring
opportunities within the curriculum Active
Classroom Maximise opportunities to be active
within the classroom throughout the school day
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• Outdoor Learning
• Provide regular opportunities to
• take learning outside of the
• Classroom, either within the school
• Grounds or into the wider
• Community i.e. local park or
• Community forest.

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Health Well Being Programmes Integrate
physical activity into the health and well being
programme. Physical Education Demonstrate a
commitment to 2 hours quality PE Maximise
opportunities for cross curricular links
Bathgate Academy
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Body Copy, Arial 28pt, black.
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Girls get Active PE, Sport Physical Activity
Hazel Williamson Youth Sport Trust
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YOUTH SPORT TRUST

• EARLY YEARS
• TOP Tots, TOP Start
• PRIMARY SCHOOLS
• TOP Play, TOP Sport, TOP Dance, TOP Outdoors
• COMMUNITY RESOURCES
• TOP Play, TOP Sport, TOP Activity
• SECONDARY SCHOOLS
• TOP Link, LIVING for SPORT, Dreams Teams, Nike
  Girls in Sport

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Active Woods presentation Kevin
Lafferty Central Scotland Health Advisor

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Childrens access to woodland

• Children have less free or wide ranging access
  to the outdoor environment than previous
  generations.
• There is a rapidly growing understanding of the
  fundamental importance of experiencing natural
  settings such as woodlands for their healthy
  physical, mental, cognitive, emotional and social
  development (Travlou, 2006)

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Woods For Health

There is substantial evidence that links the
natural environment with good physical health and
psychological well-being The Biophilia
Hypothesis states that the desire for contact
with nature is partly innate. As natural green
environments have increasingly come under
pressure from economic development, so it seems
our own well-being has suffered as a consequence
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Childrens access to woodland
nature deficit disorder

• Louv (2005) Claims such deprivation can result
  in cultural autism. It is claimed that nature
  deficit disorder results from the replacement of
  a primary experience of nature by the secondary,
  vicarious, one way experience of television and
  electronic media.
• (Louv 2005) advocates that the only way to
  prevent or cure this disorder he calls nature
  deficit disorder is for children to experience
  natural environments

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Childrens access to woodland

• Research on the development of 11 and 12 year
  old children has produced the alarming finding
  that they are now on average between two and
  three years behind where they were 15 years ago
  in terms of cognitive and conceptual development
• Shayer has speculated that the most likely
  reason are lack of experiential play in
  primary schools and the growth in video-game, TV
  culture (Shayer in Crace, 2006)

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Childrens access to woodland

• Bingley and Miligan (2004) have documented the
  links between outdoor play in natural settings
  during childhood and mental health and well-being
  during young adulthood
• They concluded that childhood play in natural
  settings has a long term positive effect on
  mental health and well-being during young
  adulthood and that woodlands and forests can
  provide certain therapeutic qualities that a
  young adult may use to alleviate stress and
  mental health problems.

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Childrens access to woodland
Evidence of mental health benefits of
nature Increasing evidence that children with
attention deficit disorder have better levels of
concentration when exposed to nature Source
Taylor AF, Kuo FE and Sullivan WC, 2001. Coping
with ADD The surprising connection to green play
settings. Environments and Behaviour 3355-77
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Woods for health

• Woodlands and green spaces improve our health and
  wellbeing
• Taking part in green exercise and using and
  viewing woodlands and open spaces helps improve
  our
• Physical health
• Social wellbeing and
• Psychological wellbeing

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What is Forestry Commission Scotland doing to
help improve Scotlands health and
well-being? Woods for Health

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FCS Forestry For People Programmes
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Woods for Health
Increasing our contribution to health Location
Increase woodland access opportunities
Accessibility safe, attractive, high quality
woodland-based facilities for target groups
Working in partnership
Information increasing awareness
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A whole school approach to physical activity
Environment Tree nursery, gardens, access to
local Woods and Greenspace, safe routes to
school via green corridors, natural play spaces.
Curriculum links Health well-being Peer
support and mentoring Physical education Active
classroom Outdoor learning
Ethos climate Physical activity policy that
supports outdoor activity in woodland and
greenspace
Links with family community Outward looking
programme Extra curricular activities, woodland
health walks natural play, cycling, bug hunts and
woodland art
Staff health welfare Staff become more active.
Social interaction with children improves.
Role of specialist Services Forest Schools
training
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Mountain bike case study / Cumbernauld glen
Mountain biking case study Aim To encourage
children to participate in mountain biking in
woodland settings as part of secondary schools
core PE, after school OSHL programs Partnership
with Scottish Wildlife Trust, Cycling Scotland
and two secondary schools in Cumbernauld New
mountain bike trail in urban woodland setting
with skills loop, blue and red trail options.
Coaching opportunities for senior pupils to
become mountain bike leaders
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Woodland visit / Merrylee primary school
Curriculum links Health and well-being, active
classroom and outdoor learning
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Natural Play an example of a whole school
approach to Physical Activity Utilising school
grounds or adjacent greenspace and woodland

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Key Elements

• Topography - hills and hollows

• Vegetation - Trees
• and bushes

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Key Elements

• Logs for climbing and balancing

• Gravel safety surface
• Low Fall Height

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Benefits

• Focus on natural environment
• Less play structures
• More robust in urban settings

• Greater play value
• social interaction
• constructive play
• health benefits
• children choose

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Summary

• Recent research has shown a need to re-connect
  people with the great outdoors
• Forests and woodlands are natural stress
  relievers as they offer a calming environment and
  help improve our health and well-being
• Evidence demonstrate the link between nature and
  health the Biophilia Hypothesis
• Children who use and enjoy outside places grow
  into adults who do likewise. The natural
  environment encourages physical activity

Clear links to curriculum for excellence
including outdoor learning, active classroom,
health wellbeing. PE and peer support and
mentoring standards
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Active Woods for Learning

• Wendy Gray
• Central Scotland Education Officer

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British Medical Association, June 2005 Report on
Childhood Obesity Such prevention
strategies will require a co-ordinated effort
between the medical community, health
administrators, teachers, parents, food producers
and processors, retailers and caterers,
advertisers and the media, recreation and sport
planners, urban architects, city planners,
politicians and legislators.
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Local Woods for Learning

• Why Woods?
• Forestry Commission
• Forest Education Initiative
• Forest School
• Outdoor Classrooms

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Why Woods?

• Special qualities of woodlands for learning
• Resource-rich
• Robust
• Safe
• Sheltered
• Changing
• Calming

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Forest Education Initiative
Wooden Games
Woodland Bus
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Forest School Aim

• To develop young people who are successful
  learners, confident individuals, who effectively
  contribute towards the natural environment and
  are socially and environmentally responsible
  citizens"
• Forest School Scotland.

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How is Forest School Different?

• Regular, repeated visits to a woodland setting
• Takes full advantage of special qualities of
  woodlands
• Encourages and develops an individuals self
  esteem and independent skills
• Observe and identify participants natural
  learning styles in a different environment
• Tailor activities and challenges to suit learning
  styles

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Forest School Activities
den building
exploring nature
lighting fires cooking
using tools
arts, crafts, games and activities
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Health Benefits
social
physical
emotional
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The best kind of classroom

• This is the best kind of classroom
• no walls, just sky and trees
• This is the best kind of classroom
• no radiators, just a gentle breeze.
• You can learn well here,
• as the birds sing,
• about your place
• in the scheme of things.
• This is the best kind of classroom
• its a journey through time and space
• from the smallest seed to the largest tree
• this is a forest and a learning place
• This is the best kind of classroom
• where the seasons dont happen in books
• where the learning is watching and thinking and
  talking

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Lunch
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Out of School Hours Learning, the evidence and
the practice
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Kirsten Collin

• Partnership Manager
• sportscotland

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OSHL Definition

• Out of School Hours Learning has evolved to
  become a collective term encompassing the wide
  variety of opportunities and activities offered
  through schools with their partners, outwith the
  formal school day. For example
• Study support, homework clubs and additional
  support for key skills
• Activities related to enterprise, sustainability
  and the environment
• Creative ventures music, drama, school shows
  and the full range of arts
• Sports, games and adventurous activities
• Community service and volunteering opportunities
• Transitional events primary to secondary
• Summer to Easter schools
• Active travel and playground activities
• Breakfast clubs and lunchtime study
• Links to Duke of Edinburgh and other accredited
  schemes
• More than 9 to 4 out of school hours learning in
  scottish education, Scottish Executive 2006

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Out of School Hours LearningEvidence and
AspirationsSummer KenessonDirectorQuality and
Education Centre
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Our recent work

• Working with LTS and SEED to
• Research international applications of out of
  school hours learning
• Develop the wider achievement agenda
• Support practice which enhances the principles of
  
• A Curriculum for Excellence

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What we know

• OOSHL is good for parents...
• OOSHL is good for the community...
• OOSHL is good for providers...
• OOSHL is good for government...
• OOSH L C is good for children!
• Risk can be transformed into opportunity for our
  youth by turning their non-school hours into the
  time of their lives.
• --A Matter of TimeCarnegie Corporation

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Whats happening

• Thirty years of research show the difference
  family involvement makes in children's learning
  and in life chances for success. Family
  involvement in after-school programs is just as
  important. The success of an after-school program
  depends on the involvement of both families and
  the community.
• PTA policy statement 1992

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Whats happening

• Collaboration often requires changes in
  traditional roles, responsibilities,
  expectations, relationships, and schedules. These
  changes can frustrate even the best of efforts if
  the people who implement the new program do not
  share common goals, a vision for what the
  after-school program can accomplish, and an
  understanding of the populations the program will
  target and the strategies to be used.
• US DE 1996

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Links in Scotland

• The link to learning recognising wider
  achievement and developing OOSHL
• What do we mean?
• Celebration, assessment, or reflection?
• What are we trying to achieve? What can we learn?
• Whats stopping us?
• How far should we go?

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Recognition and recording

• Recognition might be
• Learners making a connection with learning
• Understanding learning intentions
• assessment of understanding
• Recognition is a learning process too

• Recording might be
• Part of the process/activity (reflective diaries)
• Assessing the learning and not the activity
  (observational)
• Structure the evidence to show the
  learning/development
• Ownership by children based on understanding
  learning

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Whats the point?

• A multitude of objectives who knows whats
  best?
• Policies
• Agencies
• Activities
• Stakeholders
• Are we looking in the wrong places?
• Good practice in policy, good practice in practice

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Findings Issues, challenges, obstacles

• We contact local community groups and ask them
  which of our students are involved
• When they leave us, the portfolio may never get
  opened again, let alone continued
• The parents are amazed to see what their children
  can do
• Its all attainment, attainment, attainment
• Please dont turn this into a certificate for the
  nice but not too brighta standard grade in
  being good
• It takes quite a bit of time
• Were working in a bit of a vacuum
• We do this already

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What do pupils think?

• Findings here and abroad
• Students respond to assessment
• Students dont have equal accesshow wide does
  the responsibility go?
• Can reinforce low as well as high self esteem,
  bad as well as good behaviour
• I do it because it isnt part of school and I
  dont who all the people are who are looking at
  it (57)
• Time consuming and not important (17)

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Contact Details

• Summer Kenesson
• Director, QIE
• Tel [phone]
• summer.kenesson_at_strath.ac.uk

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OSHL Recommendations

• Schools should
• promote and/or provide a broad balanced and age
  appropriate range of extra curricular actvities
  in sport and physical activity for all pupils
• Provide and promote a range of opportunities for
  both formal and structured, informal and
  unstructured physical activity opportunities
  within breaktimes and lunchtimes
• Provide work in partnership with the wider
  community to maximise their grounds to promote
  physical activity opportunities for all

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Out of School Care Recommendation

• The range of opportunities provided by Out of
  School Care providers will vary from service to
  service, but where these are provided on site,
  schools should support the integration and
  provision of physical activity opportunities for
  all

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Presentation and workshop discussions
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Renfrewshire School of Sport Education
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The Background

• European Year of Education Through Sport 2004
• School Sport Coordinators Programme
• Maximising opportunities for children and young
  people to participate

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Mission Statement

• Renfrewshire Council will create a school of
  sport education for 16-18 year olds currently
  assisting in the delivery of sports coaching
  within the school setting. Students will have
  the opportunity to become involved in the
  programme to broaden their knowledge and
  experience of coaching young people.

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What is it?

• An education programme for senior students from
  all Local Authority secondary schools
• Weekly voluntary commitment
• September March
• Enabling schools and communities to offer more
  opportunities for sport and physical activity

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Key Partners

• Schools
• Paisley University
• NOF PE and Sport Programme
• Active Schools
• Volunteer Development Scotland
• Parents and Young People

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The Process
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Programme

• National Governing Body Qualifications
• Sports Leader Award (CSLA)
• Child Protection Training
• Disclosure Scotland
• Sports Medicine First Aid Certificate
• Sports Coach UK Modules
• TOP Play/TOP Sport Training
• Millennium Volunteer Awards

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Added Value

• Voluntary Service in Schools and Communities
  9478 hours
• Providing Festivals of Sport 10 festivals 493
  pupils
• Millennium Volunteers Award 62 Awards
• Supporting Active Schools and NOPES programmes
• 271 National Governing Body Awards
• 62 TOPS Community Leaders

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Successes

• 24 students graduated in 2005
• 20 students graduated in 2006
• 18 students will graduate in 2007
• Bronze COSLA Award in 2005
• Silver COSLA Award in 2006
• 1 Volunteer Community Coach of the Year
• 1 Young Peoples Fund Panel member
• 16 of the class 07 intend to pursue a career in
  sport/PE
• 18 former students on the coaching database

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Working with young people
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What difference have we made?

• Created more capacity within schools and local
  communities to bring about an increase in the
  number of physical activity sessions and sporting
  opportunities available for children and young
  people

More People
More Active
More Often
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Graduates
2005
2006
2007
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Matt Lowther

• National Physical Activity
• Policy Co-ordinator,
• Scottish Executive

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Thank you