A Project developed and delivered through The Stevenage Sporting Futures Team School Based Sports Apprentices A Stevenage Success Jill Eaton - Director
A Local Early Intervention program to Target Childhood Obesity Go Project – Developed through Children Centres and Stevenage Sporting • Futures Team to engage parents at home in Healthy Lifestyle Activities
Go Project Delivered by SFT • The Go Project was delivered to Nursery and Reception children in 28 Schools across Stevenage 2012/2013 • NURSERY - 781 • RECEPTION - 1269 • The project was the start of a Healthy Active Lifestyle pathway
2012/2013 Introduction of GO 5 • SFT approached by Health and Well-being Team to deliver an activity/nutritional awareness programme to a cohort of year 5 youngsters in 6 identified schools • Programme was developed through a partnership with HCC Paediatric Dietician and PE Specialists from SFT • The plan was to deliver an intervention programme to increase awareness in the importance of leading an Active Lifestyle. • Target age group 9-10 years of age. • A Typical Session shown:
Session One One Hour Duration 30 minutes practical activity 30 minutes theory work THEORY LEARNING AIM Importance of breakfast PRACTICAL LEARNING FOCUS Energy balance Energy input and energy consumption Theoretical Element: Introduction Activity: Outline and introduce course booklet. Record/depict usual breakfast. Building Activity: Examine components of breakfast using food labelling resources. Produce brief outline and picture of alternative, breakfast with healthier options. Practical Element: Introduction: Generic warm up activity to prepare the body for exercise. SAQ/Multi Skills Session: Set SAQ/circuit training session
Go 5 was launched • To ensure that the program became embedded within schools – SFT identified that delivery should be through our team of positive role models who were employed within the schools • Our School based Sports Apprentices • The team were trained and then delivered the programme throughout 10 schools involving over 300 young people.
Findings • We gathered pre and post delivery questionnaires but these were not robust enough to provide validity • The programs were successful, the children enjoyed them and learnt from them BUT we now need to prove their worth. • We also wanted to engage parents within the delivery and this is our next step.
Autumn Term 2013 • 3 pilot schools have been identified for initial delivery of parental GO 5 – parents will be invited to attend an after school session in which their youngsters show them what they have learnt i.e. fruit kebabs. • Longmeadow, Ashtree, Moss bury. • Our Advanced Apprentices will be delivering to 6 schools within Stevenage
GO 5 The next Steps • The programme has great potential if supported from a financial aspect • SFT have an infrastructure through which the programme can be delivered and it can be sustainable • The robust gathering of evidence is the priority and an identified individual would need to be employed to enable this to happen
Key Points • We want to develop a programme that becomes embedded within our schools • We have been successful so far but resources prevent further investment beyond the planned delivery • We have the foundations for a program that can be developed to target the issue of childhood obesity In addition the benefits are 1. Raising Aspiration of young people through positive role models 2. Increased opportunities for young people to be active 3. Increased opportunities for young people to raise awareness of Healthy Lifestyles through parental involvement in their learning
Thank you for your time • Please find further details of the Go project and Go 5 on the hand-outs from this presentation. • If you would like to discuss any aspect of the delivery please do not hesitate to contact me on : Email : JillEaton1@sportingfutures.com Tel Number : 07901 603292
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