Active Schools in Action

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Active Schools Manager: Jude Salmon

I have found a Maori proverb to best describe my thoughts on this year:

Building relationships and working with people, whether it be with volunteers, young people, local clubs, coaches, school staff, parents, pupils or colleagues, is one of the most important aspects of Active Schools whilst we continue to get more young people more active.

Our focus this year, as well as continuing to ensure the active, stay active, has been to find those who are not active and try to encourage and motivate them to get active. This year’s review will highlight some of the success stories of projects, events and individuals where sport and getting active has impacted their lives.

The Active Schools team continue to provide over 1,000 extra-curricular clubs offering 58 different activities before and after school and at lunchtimes. We recruited over 1,000 volunteers to help deliver these sessions and over 18,500 pupils took part in these sessions this year. None of this would be possible or have been achieved without real partnership working. I hope you enjoy reading about the impact of Active Schools within Edinburgh.

From sportscotland

sportscotland Lead Manager: Dawn McAuley

The Edinburgh Active Schools team continues to deliver successfully against our shared vision of increasing the number and range of children and young people participating in sport and physical activity opportunities before, during lunch and after school.

Throughout this academic year, the Active Schools team continued to provide a wide range of quality opportunities for children and young people to participate in sport and physical activity. The provision of inclusive opportunities continues to be a priority and barriers to participation are being understood and addressed amongst young women, children and young people from areas of deprivation and those with a disability.

Young people have also been supported by Active Schools coordinators to undertake leadership roles in school and community environments. Young ambassadors continues to go from strength to strength with young people motivating and inspiring their peers to participate in sport and physical activity.

From the schools

Jamie Petrie, Head Teacher Broomhouse Primary

Sport is the gateway to so many life skills. Teamwork, perseverance, resilience, stamina, and enjoyment. At Broomhouse, we have recognised the importance of health and wellbeing and the impact being active has on both the body and mind. The crucial part of this vision is the ability to have partners around you who share the same vision and passion. Broomhouse has grown an incredibly strong partnership with Active Schools. Together they create opportunities for all to engage in a multitude of different sports. 82% of the pupils at Broomhouse have participated in Active Schools clubs. Together, Active Schools and Broomhouse make clubs free for all and are continuing this commitment into session 2018/2019. Like all those who play sport, we see barriers and we work hard to knock them down. No gear to play the sport? Not a problem we will provide it. No sports that interest you? Not a problem, tell us what you want to play and we will try to make it happen.

It is impossible to attribute one thing when analysing the impact the clubs have on children. What we do know is that the healthy body and mind is more likely to achieve more. In session 2017/2018 Broomhouse had its highest ever attainment results. If you ask our children what they think of sport they will tell you with pride that we are Active Schools Primary School of the Year and that we have the Sport Scotland Gold Award. For me simply watching them play sport with a smile on their face is impact enough.

Performance

The statistics used in the graphs below are collated from the ASMO, (Active Schools Monitoring Online) reports which are generated by sportscotland. ASMO is a tool used to measure the impact Active Schools is making in relation to number of Distinct Participants, (number of individual pupils attending extra-curricular sessions) and Participant sessions, (number of visits the pupils make to the clubs).

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0 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 Female (46.88%) Male (53.12%) Distinct Participants Distinct Participants by Gender Distinct Participants Active Schools maintained an approximate A great performance with an additional 1,000 50/50 split of boys and girls participation in pupils recorded. Almost 19,000 pupils, 38% of 2017/18. the school roll, taking part in Active Schools activities.

58 different activities Participant Sessions offered

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484412 2016/17 Over 800 584254 Extra 2017/18 Curricular 0 100000 200000 300000 400000 500000 600000 Participant Sessions Clubs run Participant Sessions every week The number of visits pupils have made to Active Schools activities in 2017/18 significantly rose to approximately 600,000 participant sessions, an increase of over a 1,000. Active Schools continue to grow and are attracting more pupils as seen in the distinct participant statistics above.

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Speech Disorder (20.80%) Autistic (12.90%) Social, Emotional, Beha.. (34.54%) Mental Health (4.21%) Physical Health (11.67%) Communication Support Needs (8.81%) Looked after (7.06%) Active Pupils with Additional Support Needs For the first time in 2017/18, Active Schools reported on the breakdown of pupils with Additional Support Needs and Disabilities. As you can see above and below there is a wide range of Additional Needs that Active Schools cater for within the programme.

Learning Disability (15.15%) Dyslexia (25.22%) Learning Difficulty (22.36%) Moderate Learning Difficulty (16.57%) Visual Impairment (3.89%) Hearing Impairment (3.01%) Deaf/ Blind (0%) Physical or Motor Impairment (13.80%) Active Pupils with Disabilities Research

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Another first in 2017/18, Active Schools reported on the breakdown of participants in each Decile across the city. It is the intention to attract participants from all Deciles equally and Active Schools Edinburgh will continue to work towards this goal next year.

Collaboration Castlebrae Physical Education, Physical Activity and Sport (PEPAS) Forum

The Castlebrae PEPAS group is made up of one representative from four primary schools and one high school. The group was formed in June 2014 with much of the work being based on the curriculum.

In 2015 the group applied for transition funding focusing on P7 –S1 to develop further authentic experiences linked to curriculum. This was then widened to offer opportunities to different year groups. Initially each primary school would host an event at their primary school, however, all events are now held at the high school, resulting in growth in the high school roll and enhancement of transition.

The main 5 events held each year are

Over The Net – Primary 5- September

Multi-Sports- Primary 3- November

Ceilidh- Primary 4- January

Cross Country- Primary 6/7- February

HWB-Mini Olympics- Primary 7- January

Each event is planned and led by a different member of staff from each school.

All events involve all five schools with sports leaders and senior pupils taking an active role and delivering the event. Each event can see up to 170 children attending.All events are celebrated through certificates for each pupil attending the event, in the case of cross country, medals are awarded. Social media is also used to promote the events.

PEPAS meetings take place termly and are supported by cluster Head Teachers. Minutes are taken and shared with everyone in the group, cluster Head Teacher’s and the Senior Management Team at Castlebrae Community High School. Castlebrae PEPAS forum work collaboratively across all the schools in the cluster and is fortunate in many ways as primary schools are local to the high school and the high school is able to accommodate the events. One of the challenges is ensuring schools complete the evaluations as they inform future work and are an essential tool in delivering future PEPAS events.

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A combination of Active Schools, the Geography, Maths and Religious, Moral and Philosophical Studies (RMPS) departments at the school and senior pupils all work collaboratively to make sure that a hugely successful netball programme runs at Craigmount high school. Holly Maxey (Maths), Lana Henderson (Geography) and Amanda Woodhouse (RMPS), photographed opposite, are all netball players themselves and as a group, they arrange training and team selections for 5 netball teams across all age groups. They are backed up by a group of four S5 pupils (Amy, Alana, Sophie and Freya) who coach the S1 players and support training for the other age groups.

Active Schools plays a supportive role ensuring competitive and friendly fixtures are arranged across the year. In addition, a number of transition events are held to ensure the new S1's stay involved with netball when they arrive at Craigmount High School. The Craigmount cluster has a strong netball programme in the cluster primary schools which ensure there are many enthusiastic players coming to the high school each year.

The last couple of years has seen great success from the S2 team who won the Gold Scottish Cup last year and retained the Gold competition as S3's this year. All of the teachers and senior pupils are highly motivated, with their only goal to make sure that everyone is welcome at the netball club. The fun atmosphere is attracting more and more girls to play netball, no matter their ability level.

Volleyball @ Royal Mile Primary

It all started with a teacher who liked volleyball, some inquisitive pupils, and an email to their Active Schools Co-ordinator. Soon enough a collaboration had begun between; the P6 teacher and Head Teacher @ Royal Mile, the head coach of NUVOC Volleyball club (part of the James Gillespie’s High School Community Sports Hub), the Regional Development Officer for Scottish Volleyball, a Lifelong Learning Development Officer, the Active Schools Volleyball Lead, Heather Brownlee and Eliot Ambrose as the cluster Active Schools Coordinator.

This partnership developed an action plan and secured funding to implement it through purchasing new equipment & funding coaching development. The intervention was to increase participation opportunities through a free after-school club, with a clear pathway into club sport through NUVOC. The Scottish Volleyball Regional Development Officer, Lynne Beattie, delivered free taster sessions at Royal Mile. The Headteacher promoted the club with staff, pupils and parent letters. The P6 class teacher was mentored by the head coach at NUVOC Volleyball club as they voluntarily delivered the club together.

The outcome was a fun and high quality volleyball club for 15 P6 pupils at the school, with the profile of volleyball raised by the link to the National Governing Body for Volleyball and the local Community Sports Hub club. Other potential developments have emerged since then, as the class teacher is exploring Volleyball Coaching Qualifications and the school may look at becoming affiliated to Scottish Volleyball.

The mutual benefits of this collaboration were seen all round by the school, teachers, pupils, Active Schools programme, local sports clubs like NUVOC, Scottish Governing Body, and last but not least the sport of volleyball itself. The impact of this has reached beyond Royal Mile, as a similar strategy is in the planning stages at Preston Street Primary – another school in the cluster which would benefit from increased equal opportunities to participate in sport.

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2017-2018 saw the programme deliver 16 single sport and 1 multi sport events across 5 sports; Athletics (Giant Heptathlon and Cross 563 Country), Cricket, Netball, Volleyball and Waterpolo. These events pupils took have allowed for a total of 5,464 active participant visits, 55% girls and part in 45% boys. From the 23 Edinburgh Secondary Schools invited to participate in the programme, 21 attended at least one event with 9 competitions Schools attending 5+ events. In total a distinct number or 307 girls supported by and 256 Boys accessed the competition opportunities provided by the 135 volunteers School Sport Edinburgh Programme.

Each competition is delivered in partnership with City of Edinburgh Council Secondary Schools during curricular and extra- curricular time. Hosting schools provide their facilities, in addition to utilising the event as a leadership opportunity for young leaders wishing to enhance their experience in sport event management. The sport content of each event is also delivered through partnerships with our Sport & Outdoor Learning Unit Development Staff, Regional Development Managers within Sports Governing Bodies and local sports clubs. To date the programme has allowed volunteering opportunities for 53 Young Leaders, 60 Club Volunteers and has been supported by 22 National Governing Body volunteers, 135 in total.

School Sport Award The sportscotland School Sport Award is a national, Lottery funded initiative designed to encourage schools to continuously improve physical education (PE) and school sport opportunities.

The sportscotland School Sport Award: Encourages schools to self-reflect and continuously improve Puts young people at the forefront of the decision making and planning of PE and sport in their school Helps schools to increase young people’s opportunities and engagement in PE & school sport Helps schools to put PE & school sport at the heart of their planning, practice and ethos Recognises and celebrates successful PE & school sport models

Why should your school get involved? The sportscotland School Sport Award provides schools with the following benefits:

Identify current strengths and areas for improvement in PE & school sport A development plan template to improve any areas of development National recognition with a sportscotland School Sport Award Results will be 7 schools currently have Gold Award status including Firrhill and announced Portobello High Schools, Woodlands and Kaimes Special Schools, Broomhouse, Hermitage Park and St Joseph's Primary Schools. early October 2018. This year the following schools have submitted Gold Award applications: Blackhall Primary School Oaklands Dean Park Primary School Prospect Bank Kirkliston Primary School Royal High School Holyrood High School Trinity Academy

Equalities and Inclusion

ParaSport Festival 1560 distinct participants The seventh annual Para Sport Festival took place at Forrester / with a disability St Augustine’s School Campus, Edinburgh on Friday 23rd March, attracting 81 school aged pupils with a physical or sensory take part in impairment from across the East of Scotland to register for the Active Schools event. The festival, which is supported by the Celtic Foundation, clubs! aims to provide a platform for young people from the mainstream education environment an opportunity to access sports delivered by experienced coaches while also raising awareness in ParaSport.

The number of young people attending the event has grown year on year since its inception in 2012 and demonstrates a strong picture of partnership working between Active Schools Edinburgh and Scottish Disability Sport with significant input from key organisations Lothian Disability Sport and Edinburgh Leisure. Active Schools Coordinators from Edinburgh provide a pivotal presence on the day, facilitating the event and leading the groups of young people on the day. There was also significant support from Edinburgh College students at this year’s event, another partnership that has been formed over time allowing us to develop the event and provide essential experience for students in relation to working with people with a disability.

Jill Coleman, Active Schools Co-ordinator for Equality and Inclusion who takes a lead role on the festival commented, ‘The annual Para Sports Festival is an event looked forward to by the entire Active Schools Edinburgh team and this year was no different, the team worked hard in collaboration with schools to identify potential participants and this was evidenced by the high number of Edinburgh attendees. The event was full of inspiring young people, many having their eyes opened to new sporting opportunities they hadn’t previously had experience of. We received really positive feedback from attendees, parents and carers regarding the new format of splitting the day into disability specific opportunities”.

The day is also supported by Scottish Sports Governing Bodies and delivered by local inclusive clubs from the region, providing a direct link for any young people who are keen to make that transition into more regular sporting opportunities. The sports delivered on the day were Athletics, Boccia, Goalball, Judo, Swimming, Tennis, Triathlon and Wheelchair Basketball. Additionally, parents and carers are encouraged to attend and stay for the duration of the event providing them with an insight into disability sport opportunities available to their children in local and surrounding areas.

At the end of each session an Athletes ‘Question & Answer’ session took place, welcoming current sporting stars to talk about their journey so far as an para athlete. Local athletes Hope Gordon (Swimming) and Luke Pearce (Wheelchair Basketball) supported these sessions in their respective sports. Paralympic silver medallist Alison Patrick was kind enough to show off her medal from Rio before answering questions about her journey as visually impaired triathlete. Visually impaired goalball player and member of the GB National team Matthew Loftus was also in attendance

Q and A Athletes

Neal Herbert, Scottish Disability Sport Regional Manager (East) commented,

‘The numbers attending on the day continue to highlight the popularity and the need for the event in the region. Around half of the young people were new to the event and this is down to the hard work that partners do before the day in terms of identifying eligible participants from their local area. Active Schools are key to this and continue to work well in collaboration with Scottish Disability Sport to make the festival a success and aim to encourage all participants into regular sporting opportunities post event. Additionally,the collaborative working between many governing bodies of sport and local inclusive clubs provide an ideal opportunity for many young people to try particular sports that may not normally be accessible to them for the first time and therefore hopefully encouraging them into more regular opportunities.’

Find out more about opportunities for children with Additional Support Needs by visiting our website at:

www.joininedinburgh.org/sports/active-schools/inclusion/

Girls

Girls Rugby 8724 Girls take part in Active Schools clubs

The Girls Rugby at Academy works in partnership with Leith Rugby Club and Kenny Milne, the Craft Design and Technology teacher at . Together they started delivering a girls only rugby club in 2016 and since then the girls have been busy training and playing in competitive games. There have been between 22-27 girls attending the training, even with the snow and cold weather!

To read more about how the girls have got on this year, please go to: 159 Girls www.joininedinburgh.org/sports/active-schools/news/ only clubs run across the city Girls PE Project at Broomhouse

Broomhouse Primary Schools, Active Schools and the Forrester/ St Augustine's Community Sport Hub have worked together to source funding to provide an additional hour of PE every week for all p6 and7 girls through the academic year 2017-18. The project started with an evaluation completed by all girls. The key findings were limited choice, feeling embarrassed, travel difficulties and cost. 76% of the girls said they would like to be more active.

The programme consisted of Rugby, Judo, Basketball, Swimming, Water Polo and Badminton sessions all delivered in partnership with local sports clubs, primarily from Forrester/ St Augustine's Community Sport Hub including Hearts Swim Club, Warrender Water Polo Club, Jidel Judo and Forrester Rugby Football Club.

Free Judo, Rugby, Water Polo, Basketball and Badminton after school clubs were set up in response to the girl’s requests. The next part of the project is to encourage the girls to take up free membership in local sports clubs, Two pupils have taken this up so far with one girl now taking part in Forrester Rugby Club and one about to start with Warrender Water Polo club.

Girls Day Out How the “Girls Day Out” Conference 2017 impacted on Toni Niven

On Thursday 2nd November, 100 S3 girls from across the city came together at Castlebrae Community High School to learn about the power of sport, meet with inspiring role- models, take part in six different workshops, including dance, clubercise, yoga, fitness and massage therapy and have some fun! The girls heard from a number of inspiring speakers, including one of last years’ participants, Toni Niven, a S5 pupil from Craigroyston Community High School. Toni attended the event last year as a participant and came along this year, not only to support younger pupils but also to share her story as the keynote speaker.

She spoke with passion about the conference itself and what she had gained from attending it, commenting “I realised if I could go to an event with lots of strangers and get up on a trampoline in front of everyone then I could do more. I learned that even though it was daunting, I could not only try something new but be good at it and even enjoy it. My friend and I realised we had found something we could get involved in at school”. The girls enjoyed the day so much, they were determined to get their own ‘girls-only’ club at school. Toni started to join in clubs herself and helped on the senior pupils Sports Committee. When she got the chance to trial a girls-only fitness club after school, she helped to promote it and encouraged girls to give it a go. The club started small with only one or two girls coming along but one year on it is now a busy after school girls fitness club. The school also offer a very popular girls football club, and more and more girls are attending all the other lunch clubs every week.

Toni is now a senior member of the pupil Sport and Wellbeing Committee and helps deliver football and breakfast clubs throughout the week. Toni is now more confident, happy, focused in class and is fully engaged in school generally. Toni sees herself as a role model for the younger pupils and says “that feels great”. Her message to the girls was simple; “grasp this opportunity, make new friends, try new stuff and let it make a difference”. The Girls Day Out Conference has become an annual event and aims to continue to support teenage girls across the city to discover activities they enjoy and ultimately become more physically active.

View all the photos from the Girl's Day Out at:

https://flic.kr/s/aHsm9XBchv

Volunteering A most valued volunteer working with Active Schools – Heather Blair

Heather has been a great volunteer for the Edinburgh Active School team since starting with us last summer after graduating from University. Heather was very interested in gaining qualifications and knowledge about the role of Active Schools and gaining experience of working with children in a sporting environment. Heather has thrown herself into the role assisting with delivery in the Broughton Cluster and Firrhill cluster over the past three terms on a weekly basis. She has assisted with multi-sports, hockey, tennis and netball sessions to name but a few. Heather has also supported many neighbourhood and citywide events such as the North West Neighbourhood Dance Shows, Girls Day Out event in October where she was a great role model to the young girls in her group. She has recently supported Inverleith Swifts Netball Club at Broughton High School and delivered netball to 100 Primary 6 children at Games @ The Hub event.

Heather is one of a kind and has been such a great asset to Active Schools since she came on board, often taking time away from her paid employment to volunteer. Since Heather began with us in August, she has totalled over 100 volunteer hours, which has been recognised by the Saltire Awards. Heather commented that “she has really enjoyed the diversity of the activities offered across Edinburgh and has been impressed with the enthusiasm of the Active Schools team and all that they do”.

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Football fanatic helps Royal High girls get active

Stuart Bain started volunteering with Active Schools at The Royal High School back in March 2017 and got involved with Active Schools after looking for some experience in working with children.

Stuart, having a passion for football, was an ideal match for supporting the introduction of girl’s football at The Royal High School. Active Schools looked at times where both Stuart and the interested girls would be free and since March the girls have been training on a Thursday lunchtime and Wednesday after school. Stuart has supported the girls at Edinburgh football festivals, along with PE teacher Mark Gair and Blackhall Athletic coaches. The girls have performed really well at these festivals and the school has now entered the girls in to the Scottish Cup for the next school year.

Stuart also volunteered his time to help with transition for P7 girl’s football. We arranged three weeks of football sessions at The Royal High School for those P7 girls from cluster primaries who are attending the school after the summer. This was very successful thanks to Stuart and gave the girls a chance to build relationships with future classmates and use the facilities at The Royal High School. The future of girl’s football is looking very promising at The Royal High School thanks to the dedication and commitment of Stuart and others. Thanks to Stuart for all his hard work. Without him, this club may not have happened!

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Events Games at the hub

Games @ The Hub 2018

This was the sixth year the Active Schools Annual Games @ the Hub event took place with 1800 pupils taking part from 70 primary schools taking part, including 4 special schools. Active Schools take great pleasure in hosting this fantastic event now dubbed the largest sports day in the city. The aim is to celebrate Active Schools by inspiring young people to take part in physical activity and sport and motivate them to continue staying active.

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Games @ the Hub is a citywide event with all Edinburgh primary schools invited to participate and bring teams of up to 10 pupils, (both boys and girls) to take part in their chosen sport(s) of which there were 14.

This year pupils took part in:

Football Cricket Dance Gaelic Football Athletics Volleyball Rugby Lacrosse Hockey Ultimate Frisbee Swimming Netball Basketball Judo

The teams took part in a skills based session to start the day and then progressed into a competition environment in the afternoon with a Games @ the Hub shield up for grabs in each sport.

We were delighted that David Bruce, Service Manager for Communities and Families presented the shields to the winning teams on the day, along with Stephen Rafferty, Head Teacher at and Michael McGee, Head Teacher at St Augustine’s High School.

Pupils and schools provided feedback to the team on their thoughts of the day and these included:

Hermitage Park teacher said:

"It was a very positive atmosphere"

Fox Covert Primary said: "It was brilliant"

St John's PS said: "Coaches were very supportive, helpful and enthusiastic" Granton Primary said: "Pupils had a great time"

Volunteers The day would not be possible without the strong partnership working Active Schools have with governing bodies, local colleges, local community clubs and secondary schools, all of whom provide volunteers not only to deliver in the many extracurricular programmes across the city but also to deliver and support many events including the Games @ the Hub. Active Schools are currently working with over 1,100 volunteers, 450 of them being senior pupils from the secondary schools across the city. The volunteers played a crucial part in the day, with some delivering alongside governing bodies and local clubs and others officiating and assisting with the coaching sessions throughout the day.

At this year's Games @ The Hub we launched a new sports club page!

https://www.joininedinburgh.org/sports/active-schools/clubs/

View all the photos from the Games @ The Hub at:

https://flic.kr/s/aHskyBJkUa

Dance - Buckstone

Thank you The Active Schools Team would like to thank all the schools who took part in the event this year and showed their support for Active Schools. We all look forward to welcoming you back next year.

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Cricket - Sciennes Flora Stevenson Broughton

Football - Longstone Prospect Bank Redhall

St Cuthberts St Francis Trinity

Parsons Green Flora Stevenson Gracemount

St Mary's Kaimes St Peter's

Active Schools Edinburgh Awards and Celebration Evening 2018 Sunday 18th March saw Active Schools Edinburgh host the second Evening of Celebration to thank and recognise the many coaches, schools, volunteers, young people and clubs that work with Active Schools. It was a special evening for the Active Schools team who showed their appreciation for the hard work and commitment shown by all the partners and to share the success of the Active Schools programme. Active Schools were lucky enough to hold this incredible evening at the prestigious Hotel with their compliments.

With 2018 being the Year of the Young Person, it was only fitting that two young people joined Paddy Dearlove, an Active Schools co-ordinator on stage to host the evening, namely Yik Yik Beh from Broughton High School and Jack Liddall from Trinity Academy.

The whole evening was set around young people with Hollie Fenny piping the guests in to start the evening, Lexi Sheppard and Broughton School of Dance taking to the stage to entertain us all and show what talent young people in Edinburgh have to offer. Active Schools would also like to thank Sharon Martin who opened the evening by performing the Scottish Women’s Anthem ‘Girl’.

Active Schools were delighted to welcome the keynote speaker for the night, Katy Hastie, a former pupil who told her story on how sport and Active Schools impacted her life. It was a privilege to have David Bruce, Service Manager Communities and Families, Lorna Sweeny, Schools and Lifelong Learning Service Manager, Maureen McConigle, View all the photos the chairwomen for Women in Sport, Jacqueline Lynn, Head of School from the Celebration and Community Sport at sportscotland, Simon Turner, Head coach at Evening at: Boroughmuir Blaze Basketball Club and Bob Wyllie, Lead Manager at sportscotland presenting the awards this year. https://flic.kr/s/aHsmeGPQ2z 14 awards were presented in four different categories, including volunteers, coaches, young leaders, clubs and schools. Please see the list of winners below:

Young Volunteer of the Year Volunteer of the Year Young Coach of the Year Cameron McMorran Kirsty Hamilton Ross Johnston

Young Leader of the Year Young Ambassador of the Year Young Ambassador Team of Emma Waldie Cameron McLeod and Cara the Year Murie Holy Rood RC

Coach of the Year Community Sport Hub Club Club of the Year Pam Livingston of the Year Lismore RFC Edinburgh Dance Academy

Primary School Volunteer of High School Volunteer of the the Year High School of the Year Year John Mowbray Sarah Murphy Craigroyston

Primary School of the Year Broomhouse Special Contribution to Active Schools St Peter's Primary Netball Coaches Active Schools Special Contribution Award

The Netball club at St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Primary began from scratch. There were no qualified coaches, the volunteers were not PVG registered and there was no netball equipment or netball lines. In partnership with Active Schools they were able to meet all these challenges and now have two netball clubs running out of the School with over 40 participants every Thursday. All three of the parent volunteers have undertaken netball qualifications and attended Active Schools training sessions including First Aid, Positive Coaching Scotland and SafeGuarding and Protecting Children.

They have hosted netball friendlies with their neighbourhood schools so as well as training, the players also get the opportunity to play against other schools on a regular basis. The parent volunteers plan, organise and deliver neighbourhood netball festivals, assist at citywide events and are developing a Primary to High School pathway programme. Seven of their original players now play competitively within the City of Edinburgh Netball Association league. Colleen, Lisa and Maria are a brilliant example of how a committed group of volunteers can work together to develop a successful club from scratch and provide quality, fun-filled sessions for the young people at their school.

Getting Active

The Circus comes to Currie and Balerno clusters 38% of school roll take part in Active Schools Circus Skills is an exciting new activity which has taken place in clubs the Currie and Balerno clusters over the last year. Our expert coach, Antonia Maerker, is originally from Berlin and now lives in Edinburgh.

As well as teaching Circus Skills, Antonia also performs as a freelance circus performer whose speciality lies in juggling! The classes at Ratho Primary School and Currie Primary School are currently for P1-3 pupils but other classes are offered for older pupils across Edinburgh.

Some of the specific circus skills pupils are learning include basic tumbling, juggling, spinning plates and hula hoops, balancing peacock feathers and building pyramids. Throughout these activities pupils are working on their hand-eye coordination, body awareness and are building up their confidence in their abilities which proves ‘how to learn’ is just as important as ‘what’ they are learning! Following the popularity of these classes Antonia now offers circus skills in other schools as well as in the community! To come along and join in the fun look out for these classes in the next Active Schools Extra-Curricular Club term time booklet ….We look forward to seeing you there!

Dance This year all Active Schools extra-curricular dance clubs worked towards the third annual Active schools Dance Extravaganza which was held on Tuesday 27th February at the Churchill Theatre.Within the city of Edinburgh, all 115 schools deliver extra-curricular dance clubs, some offering multiple clubs to accommodate the different age ranges. A total of 514 clubs ran across the year.

Active Schools work in partnership with 8 dance clubs across Edinburgh, namely Edinburgh Dance Academy, Dance Division, Live it Dance studios, Angela Watson School of Dance, Step it Up Dance, D N Dance, Star Dance Academy, Starpic Dance all of whom play a crucial part in the delivery and progression of dance. An astonishing 87,852 participant sessions were recorded for 2017-18 which equates to 15% of Active School participant sessions in Edinburgh, the highest attended activity. To read more about the various neighbourhood shows and the Extravaganza itself, please visit: www.joininedinburgh.org/sports/active-schools/news/

Holyrood High School Sports Fair

Holyrood Roman Catholic High School ran a ‘university style’ fair for S1-3 pupils to sign up to all extra-curricular sports clubs, with the aim to increase participation levels across the school.

At the fair, sports clubs spread across 20 different stalls. The pupils from the Sport Council and Young Ambassadors chose their preferred sport session to volunteer and promote for the forthcoming year. This was the sport they supported at the fair and managed the stall. Their role during the fair was to encourage the S1-3 pupils to sign up to their sport. Some of the teachers and independent coaches and clubs joined the pupils at the stalls to promote the sports too.

The whole school was involved in the fair and teachers offered each year group 30-minute slots to move around and sign up for their preferred activities. Pupils were asked to sign up to at least 1 activity.

The fair was a great success and the sports clubs had a large increase in the number of pupils attending extra-curricular activities from 16% of the school role participating in 2016/17 to 34.5% in 2017-18.

Teacher Referral Form

Forrester cluster introduced a teacher referral form to try to encourage pupils who are not active to try Active Schools activities. This started with swimming and the letter was handed out to pupils at Broomhouse who had not met their Level 3 certificate or who would find it difficult to access a swimming pool. These initial sessions were so successful that Shona Clark, Active Schools Coordinator, used the referral form for all activities in the Active Schools programme. Active Schools and the school trialled it with a p5 class and due to the teacher supporting the project the class went from no pupils taking part to 20 pupils now being Active. Shona Clark then rolled it out across the cluster so that teachers had the option to provide these letters to anyone they thought would benefit from being more active and maybe need some encouragement to do so.

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Young Leaders

This year’s annual Young Ambassador residential 150 Young took place at Lagganlia on 17th-19th November 2017. This year saw the highest number in Ambassadors attendance with 72 senior pupils representing 20 delivering over 100 high schools and 3 ASN schools from Edinburgh. clubs a week

The Outcomes of the residential were to:

Understand the role of a Young Ambassador both locally and citywide

Learn new skills including leadership, communication & presentation

Gain a citywide connection and develop stronger relationships between the Young Ambassdaor’s

Fundraising

Each year the Young Ambassadors are tasked with raising funds towards the residential trip and involved:·

Hosting a multi sports all night event which was held at Gracemount Leisure Centre and attracted 50 of the Young Ambassadors who made it through the night.·

A sponsored cycle where Young Ambassador’s attended The and used stationary bikes to cycle the distance from Edinburgh to London. Over the weekend of 10th/11th November 25 Young Ambassadors supported this event and they achieved the goal of cycling 468 miles.·

A Quiz Night held at Willowbrae Bowling Club where 17 teams of 6 attended.

Some of the comments the Young Ambassadors have said about the programme and the residential include:

“I loved getting to mix with other people and “I was supported when to do activities that doing something I was we wouldn’t normally scared of” do”

“I learnt what qualities "I was able to make make a good team new good friends” leader”

Being a Young Ambassador is very rewarding where young people get to develop their personal skills in communication, leadership and presentations and they use these new found skills throughout the year promoting their role as a Young Ambassador in their schools. Many make lifelong friends and develop good positive friendships.

Year of the Young People

Naomi Morrison Gets Dancing

Following opportunities that arose from taking part in cluster dance shows, the city wide Dance extravaganza event and the Dance Leaders Course, Naomi Morrison an S3 pupil at St Thomas High School continued her new interest in physical activity by attending an Active Schools extra-curricular dance club at the high school.

As her confidence grew, Naomi began to lead small parts of dance sessions such as the warm ups or cool downs, whilst being mentored by the lead dance coach. Naomi was then nominated by the dance coach to take part in the Dance Leaders course provided by Edinburgh Dance Academy, which was a new initiative introduced by Active Schools this year.

This gave Naomi experience in planning, organising and delivering dance sessions to school aged pupils. She then went on to volunteer at Active Schools Neighbourhood Dance Shows and the city wide Dance Extravaganza event. Most recently Naomi led her first dance session, to her peers, teaching them a whole new dance in one session.

Naomi’s group came first in the level one (after school club) category of the Edinburgh Junior Secondary Schools Dance Competition at the Churchill Theatre in May. She also scooped best dancer on the night. Naomi has also been selected by Edinburgh Dance Academy to take part in their Dance Scholarship Programme. Naomi has achieved so much is such a short space of time and most importantly has remained physically active whilst developing her personal skills.

Year of the Young People @ Games at the hub

2018 is a special year as it is Year of the Young Person.

Young people from sports clubs took on a new role at the Games @ The Hub event in May, as they promoted their sports clubs, awarded spot prizes and certificates for effort and team spirit throughout the day. The aim was to give young people more of a decision making role in their sport, to promote the pathway from school to club and to recognise the effort that teams put into their sport.

Find out more and view all the certificates awarded by clicking below

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463 Senior Pupils volunteer in the Active Schools programme

Clubs and Coaches Coach Education This year the “Fit to Coach" Programme provided quality training courses and sessions for all volunteers and coaches recruited by the Active Schools team in Edinburgh. Active Schools were once again able to offer any volunteer or coach free access to a number of Positive Coaching Scotland, Safeguarding and Protecting Children Courses, in addition to access to First Aid and Disability Inclusion Training at a very low cost.

IMPORTANT POINT! 173 Course Participants 68% of coaches

and volunteers were young people!

Volunteers (53.18%) Coaches (43.93%) Teachers (2.89%)

First ever Young Ambassadors Coaching Conference held in partnership with Hibernian Football Club where 55 Young Ambassadors attended the conference and 30 completed their Early Touches Level 1 qualification through the Scottish Football Association

Swim School From the 12th - 17th February, Active Schools in partnership with Edinburgh Leisure’s swim education team held a swim school at St Augustine/ Forrester High School. Two probationary Trainer Assessors joined the team to deliver the February swim school.

Two National Pool Lifeguard Qualification courses were also held at St Augustine/ Forrester High School with 17 pupils attending and all successfully passed. Along with the lifeguard course, an additional two Level 1 Teaching Aquatic courses also “I enjoyed the course very took place at the high school. 11 high school pupils all much and am looking successfully completed the course and are patiently awaiting forward to giving back the their written exam results. voluntary hours”

Working in partnership with Edinburgh Leisure, Active Schools were able to deliver 11 hours of swimming lessons with approximately 100 children from the local primary school attending. The pupils made great progress with some having their first visit to a swimming pool. Many finished the week without swimming with arm bands and swam for the first time unaided.

Parents gave great feedback and examples of this is below:

“This is a great opportunity for young people to help you with the clubs, to get him involved, he’s so positive about it all”

“Brilliant. Good job all round”

Coaches Profiles

John Paul Mason

John Paul Mason first started working with Active Schools when he was a pupil at . He is a motivated young man and inspires others by providing platforms for young people to participate in sport and get active. Over the years, sport and coaching has made a huge impact on John Paul and in turn he has made a big impact in the Liberton Cluster. John Paul is driven to support his local community, the Active Schools programme and sports clubs to make an impact on young people’s lives and below are examples of how he has done this:

-Delivered holiday camps at Liberton Community Sports Hub in Easter, Summer and October breaks

-Delivered the football aspect of the Autumn Games

-Supported the Sportfest community event at Liberton High School

-Refereed and organised basketball fixtures and football fixtures for 289 coaches high school pupils delivering

-Was a coach at the mixed football sessions and badminton club at with Active Liberton High School and Craigour Park Primary school. Schools -Recruited as a Community Sports Hub Leader and is the point of contact for Hub Clubs based at Liberton High School.

-Delivered at the first UK Coaching Conference at the Oriam.

It is obvious that John Paul understands the local community and how important it is for children and young people in the community to live an active life. As an ex-pupil, John Paul not only acts as a role model to all the children and young people he coaches but inspires them to stay active. The Active Schools team are very lucky to have such a dedicated and honest coach/volunteer working with them.

Panashe Muzambe

Panashe has an approach to coaching that produces a very high quality of delivery. Each session coached is planned from the perspective of the young people while still delivering excellent progression from week to week. The young people are always continuously engaged in a good variety of activities throughout all sessions. Panashe also develops the learning of each individual by utilising questioning which ensures all participants understand what and why they are learning so it can be applied in game like situations.

Panashe’s confidence and knowledge continues to flourish and develop as she supports younger coaches at the beginning of their journey. She also acts as a mentor for the girls rugby programme in her local area, promoting the benefits of the sport she enjoys herself. Everything Panashe does is to a very high standard; she has an excellent manner with participants of all age groups and is confident at adapting her style to the group she is working with. Her commitment to the young people, her development and Active Schools is fantastic. View more coach profiles at: https://www.joininedinburgh.org/sports/active-schools/CVO/

Club Profiles

120 local Warrender Water Polo Club clubs work Warrender Water Polo club is a good example of an effective school closely with to club link. The club put in a funding bid to get water polo balls, caps and cones so that a new cluster club could start at Forrester High Active Schools School. Warrender Water Polo club has provided volunteers to support and develop the cluster club, providing 4 young players from the club to come along and support, learn from the lead coach and develop their coaching skills. This will allow the cluster club to have a sustainable future with a strong voluntary commitment from the Warrender Water Polo Club. It is a great partnership between school and club with a clear pathway to club coaching sessions. Two coaches have just completed their National Pool Lifeguard Qualification making the club completely sustainable on volunteers and ensuring that it is free at the point of access for all pupils.

Warrender Baths Water Polo Club has been an integral part of the James Gillespie’s High School Community Sports Hub since its launch and the opening of sports facilities at the school. From the outset, Neal Rayner, Development Officer, and the club have been a vital support to curricular, extra-curricular and wider community activity to the provision of water polo activity and participation for the school community at Gillespie’s High School. Water Polo has become one of the most popular activities at the school and the young people attending are reflecting the clear passion and dedication for the sport exhibited by the club coaches, leaders and wider club. This includes a strong gender balance and those who have previously been less active.

Edinburgh Dance Academy

Edinburgh Dance Academy (EDA) has been a great club to work with and who understand the values of being a club in the local community. They support the Active Schools Programme at Broughton High School by offering free dance delivery where 15 girls attend every week. The club has performed and delivered tasters at various events since EDA became a priority club at Broughton Community Sports Hub. EDA voluntarily deliver Holiday Camps for P1-2 and P3-7 children as part of the Community Sport Hub Holiday Programme. They are also a club with big community values and have participated in community events such as Septemberfest, Flora Stevenson Summer Fair and has performed at the Club Sport Edinburgh Awards. They are always willing to support Active Schools and the Community Sports Hub to grow and develop. This year EDA are also helping senior pupils become better qualified by putting 24 pupils through the Dance Ambassador Course. www.joininedinburgh.org/sports/active-schools/

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