Active School programme Derby County Community Trust, in partnership - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Active School programme ‘Derby County Community Trust, in partnership with Derby City Council has developed an evidenced based, active school programme, to support schools with delivering a whole school approach to physical activity.’ Arwen Green – Active Learning Officer

In this session we will look at: • How does a whole school approach to physical activity contribute to the Obesity Strategy? • How does the Active School Programme ‘ support healthier eating, physical activity and the shaping of healthy habits?’ • What the local picture looks like in Derby by sharing the findings so far from the Active School Programme (6 schools and 2000 kids) • What implications does this have for your school on getting children more active?

Why was the programme developed? Detailed research has shown that today’s children are the least active in history and this generation of children is expected to die five years earlier than their parents. PHYSICALLY INACTIVE CHILDREN ACTIVE CHILDREN DO ARE AT: BETTER IN EVERY POSSIBLE • Higher risk of obesity WAY, INCLUDING: • Performing better in • Have more missed school days school • Have lower academic • Behaving better achievement • Increase attendance rate • Earn less as adults • Increase levels of • Have more sick days off work concentration • 2x as likely to be obese as • Improve life chances for adults better physical, • Die a premature death emotional and social outcomes in the future From Designed to Move – Active Schools

What is an Active School? Schools that integrate fun options for physical activity into the entire school day. That means before, during and after school Active schools tend to do the following things really well: • INSPIRES 60 MINUTES OR MORE OF DAILY PHYSICAL ACTIVITY Children move before, during and after school — to and from school, in classrooms and corridors, in the gym and on the playground. Bursts of 10+ minutes count towards the target. • DELIVERS HIGH-QUALITY PHYSICAL EDUCATION Children are taught regular physical education that is high-quality, inclusive, focused on physical literacy and likely to give them a positive experience. • CREATES A CULTURE OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY FOR ALL Children are surrounded by leaders, parents, staff and a community who support and invest in physical activity and sport as a way for children to succeed. From Designed to Move – Active Schools

Active School Programme – examples of a WSA Train teaching and non teaching staff, provide Provide schools parent information sessions and assemblies for First year pilot, with data on pupils we’ve worked with pupils’ levels of 6 schools/2000 physical activity, Engagement of whole children across emotional health school Derby to: and wellbeing, community weight and physical development Measure Needs Identify pupils within Whole school impact analysis school that meet approach to Provide easy and Livewell’s child weight physical fun ways to management criteria activity increase physical and/or are inactive activity across the and target them to school day e.g. join the Master Cadet Targeted Universal Daily Mile, healthy living club provision provision Activate to concentrate, Take Provide a pathway to ten ‘every move Livewell’s Active Child counts’ Programme

The local picture – what did we find out? What implications could this have for your school?

KS1 and KS2 comparison KS1 BMI categories KS2 BMI categories 5% 3% 12% 11% 10% 17% 67% 75% Overweight Underweight Healthy Obese

Decline in healthy weight by age range Total Healthy weight % childre chang Number % Age n e 5 71 54 76.06% 6 235 177 75.32% -0.74 7 163 121 74.23% -1.09 7 (KS2) 90 66 73.33% -0.9 8 345 239 69.48% -3.85 9 320 209 65.72% -3.76 10 326 198 61.88% -3.84 11 229 143 62.72% +0.84 Think about where you target your physical activity and health education?

Deprivation and healthy weight There was a clear link between deprivation and a healthy weight when schools were ranked from lowest levels of healthy weight to highest: • 54 % of pupils had a healthy weight in the most deprived area of the city • 77 % of pupils had a healthy weight in the least deprived area of the city Why? When we looked at levels of activity over a 7 day period, children achieved double the number of hours of activity in the least deprived areas compared to the most deprived

Parent questionnaire – how much PA should your child do a day? 2% 2% 120 mins 9% 180 mins 30 mins 29% 60 mins 90 mins 58% How do we promote the recommended 60 minutes a day with parents?

Reasons for not walking/cycling/scooting to school 80.00% 69% 0.692307692 70.00% 60.00% 50.00% 40.00% 24% 0.243589744 30.00% 20.00% 5% 0.051282051 10.00% 1% 0.012820513 0.00% I drop them off on Not enough time Worried about Worried about my way to work in their safety traffic the car What implications does this have for our travel plans?

Physical literacy data Out of 168 children (including 28 in year 3 and 4) only 2 were at age appropriate milestones What implications does this have for getting children more active?

What next? Come and find us this morning if you want to find out more about the Active School Programme, Take Ten ‘every move counts’ or the Daily Mile Think about what you need to do as a school now to increase children’s level of activity and how you will demonstrate your contribution to preventing obesity by helping children to eat better and move more.