METRO Issue 2 January 2019

IN THIS ISSUE: Family Fun in the Aiming to be the School Holidays Meals and activities supplied by VAS most active school Upcycle Making the most in … of what’s available at Shooter’s Grove Words by Dom McDermott, a teacher at Hinde House Primary School and Move More Ambassador Primary School

A look back at Move More month 2018 The highlights and achievements of a city, together in activity

Active Environments How funding is transforming local parks and playgrounds An active outdoor lesson at in Sheffield Hinde House Primary.

Move More Have we bitten off more than we can chew? Hopefully not! Physical activity Ambassadors and attainment have long been linked and at Hinde House Primary we strongly believe in the benefits. Children want to move more and schools Stories are in a fantastic position to support this. A round-up from across the unique network of Creating active learning environments is how often we hear: ‘This is the best day of nothing new at Hinde House. We have my life.’ community activators been taking children Beyond the Four Walls Wheelie Wednesday encourages children to for more than ten years. Every week our travel to school on their own wheels. We get activity programme takes a class out of Move More Sport 100 children wheeling in through glorious school for the whole day. We start local, and The city celebrated its sunshine but also in rain, wind and the cold! for many children this can be their first visit many achievements to green spaces. Bikes are often used in lessons too, they’re and shining stars in a great when looking at friction and gears As they get older, we explore Mayfield number of high profile in science and children can often be seen Valley and Woods using local scooting for the answer in a maths lesson! events – we review transport and our feet! By Year 5 we are them walking to Meadowhall to catch a train We are raring to go to ‘Introduce a parent to out to the Peak District National Park and the HHK’, the Hinde House Kilometre, our tackling challenging walks, including a dip version of the Daily Mile. CALL FOR ARTICLES in Padley Gorge. Every trip is linked to an area of the curriculum, uses local transport Want to know more about how to make Send your articles to: and is able to be enjoyed again by children your school more active? Get in touch with [email protected] with their families and friends. It’s amazing our super Move More Ambassador - Dom McDermott: [email protected] Issue 2 January 2019 Family fun in the school holidays

One-in-three Sheffield school available across the city in areas with “VAS is proud to have led this project children have free school meals high levels of Child Poverty. Local which has made a huge impact to and school holidays can stretch charities ran the schemes including children and families across Sheffield. Manor and Castle Development Trust, We want to thank all our partners family budgets. Sheffield City Zest, Community Forum, for working so hard to meet the high Council worked with Voluntary City Farm, The Furnival, demand. Action Sheffield to provide Shipshape, SOAR and Holiday schemes not only reduce the Adventure Playground. Food was activities and nutritious meals financial strain and food insecurity for provided by The Real Junk Food to make sure children didn’t families over the holidays, they stop Project and Fare Share Yorkshire. go hungry, get them out of the parents feeling isolated and introduce house and to Move More. them to volunteering. Over 3,450 kids Almost 3 tonnes of got out of the house and made new • 11,300 meals were provided with friends. Families also tried different community picnics, sports, arts unwanted food went to food and learnt how to cook healthy and science activities. a good cause - instead of meals at home.” • 60 volunteers donated almost 2,000 going to landfill. hours to help cook, clean up and To find out more about running similar schemes, visit play with the kids. Maddy Desforges, Chief Executive www.fillingtheholidaygap.org or to from Voluntary Action Sheffield said: Holiday activity programmes were volunteer visit www.vas.org.uk Active Active Burngreave uses sport to provide a sense of belonging and tackle local health inequalities. People, organisations and projects and work together to increase Four young men completed the are helping bring the community opportunities, supported by Community Sport Leaders Awards together, using local places and Community Development Worker, and have led weekly activities for skills to develop Burngreave’s own Safiya Saeed. around 40 men at Concord Sports approach to help everyone lead Centre. Over 1,000 people have taken part healthy and active lives. in weekly activities in the past two Local groups receive support years and 70 people have received “We need to work training to become volunteers. together to make sure we Success Story: Big Brother continue to shine in our Burngreave lets young people community.” shine This project lets young people deliver Sahal Bare who completed the their own activities, develop skills, award earlier this year said: “We are friendships and aspirations. young people with bright futures. Community leaders volunteer their It can sometimes feel as if there are time to mentor young people to influences on your life which are ensure they stay involved in positive stopping your lights from shining.” activities. 2 January 2019 Issue 2

Modeshift STARS Case Study: Upcycled Wooden Pallet Cycle Storage UP-CYCLE! Shooters Grove Primary School, Sheffield

Shooter’s Grove Primary are embedding active travel in their daily school life using wooden pallets – Yes, really! The school wanted to boost pupil about issues around the environment, of the cycle storage where children skills and the confidence to be able to conservation and how to reduce waste and parents enjoyed a free healthy cycle safely, not only for school but for by recycling materials. breakfast and had a chance to ride in independent journeys, making cycling the playground. This was followed by The school worked with local a more accessible and natural choice. a cycle safety assembly for the whole businesses, getting the wooden school, where children learned about One barrier was found to be a lack of pallets from a builders merchant. how to keep themselves safe when storage where cycles could be kept The caretaker built the bike racks riding their bikes and the importance upright and safe. Bikes were being once the children had painted the of being seen by other road users. left on the floor and getting damaged pallets. There was a grand opening when the existing storage was full. The idea came through the school’s Active Travel Officer Paula Edwards to It’s a great example of how a low cost solution can solve make their own storage by upcycling a potentially expensive problem. old wooden pallets. Children learned

Schools Yorkshire Tour 2018 HSBC UK Let’s Ride Events and Sheffield’s SY STARS Officers worked in partnership with Breeze Rides British Cycling coaches and Forge Valley Cycle Track to host Sheffield’s leg of the Schools Yorkshire Tour in June 2018. On Sunday 15 July, Sheffield hosted the HSBC Lets Ride event which closed the roads of Sheffield for a street Over 50 children from Sheffield took part in the event and festival for thousands of bikes. In fantastic weather, valuable practical cycle skills were learned. The aim is locals got on their bikes to ride the 6.5km route, taking in to help children gain confidence in cycling and see it as a landmarks as well as a host of family-friendly activities. positive form of transport. A baton was passed between schools on its way to the city boundary for the Barnsley leg. HSBC UK Breeze offers fun, free bike rides for women of all abilities across the UK. It doesn’t matter if you’re A total of 162 schools took part in this fantastic event. keeping fit, young at heart, wise beyond your years, or don’t know how to change the gears. Every woman is welcome on our HSBC UK Breeze Rides. We know it’s easier said than done, so our Breeze Champions will organise everything, lead the group and make sure everyone stays safe. It’s free and it’s fun. Find out more at www.letsride.co.uk There are plenty of other ways to keep riding throughout the year with Let’s Ride in Sheffield. We organise everything from huge traffic-free rides through major During the two-week Tour, the baton travelled over towns and cities to small local rides which are great for 640km, starting in North Yorkshire and passing through, families and beginners. We train volunteers to lead and East Riding, York, Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield, inspire and we help you find great cycling routes, and Barnsley, Wakefield, Kirklees, Bradford, and Calderdale people to explore them with. before ultimately finishing in Leeds. 3 Issue 2 January 2019 Move More Month 2018 In June 2018 Sheffield hosted another fantastic Move More Month with workplaces, schools and communities getting involved and racking up 6.2 million active minutes.

Sheffield International Venues Manor and Castle Development hosted a health and wellbeing event Trust were among organisations with Macmillan Cancer Care and who hosted a Move More event on others at EIS Sheffield. The event Saturday 23 June 2018 on Manor featured 35 local health, wellbeing Fields. The event encouraged and service partners and was people to be that little bit more enjoyed by over 200 people from active and to try things they may the local communities. The aim was not have considered. There was to promote a healthy lifestyle and a lot on offer from boxercise and to Move More, with something for kettlebell classes, grass sledging, everyone including table tennis, crazy golf, Tai Chi and line dancing wheelchair basketball, walking taster sessions. football and light fitness classes.

Move More Hopscotches appeared around the city, turning Sheffield Kings Camps also ran number into a playground. The playground- events across the month including favourite grids could be found sessions at Endcliffe and Concord around the city centre, universities, Park and paired up with British leisure centres and businesses. Cycling to host a joint event in Move More would like to say a the North East of Sheffield to huge thank you to everyone who encourage the community to come sponsored a site including Mott out and get active. Macdonald, Air Environmental, John Lewis, CMS Solicitors, Henry Boot and many more!

Move More Month June 2018 – Workplace Challenge

It was another fantastic year with their team ‘Striders not Strollers’. over 140 teams battling it out to The business has an Active Health become the most active workplace and Wellbeing Programme with in Sheffield! The website and app Zumba, yoga, employee-led ‘desk encouraged employees take part in to 5k’ running groups, a daily a whole range of physical activities lunchtime walking group, weekend from lunchtime running clubs family walks and seminars on to walking meetings to get those topics such as strength and active minutes in! Can you help people Move conditioning, nutrition and even More in 2019? B.Braun Medical Ltd were this sleep. year’s winners of the coveted ‘Most Other winners at the Move More If you have any events running in Active Workplace in Sheffield’ title event were Sheffield Teaching June 2019 that could use physical at a Move More awards ceremony Hospitals winning the “Most activity or sport into and help held at Gripple’s impressive GLIDE Engaged Workforce’, Dave Lehane people to Move More - get in touch House facility in July. on Twitter or via email and we Page Hall Medical Centre as ‘Most will give you a shout out to help to B.Braun Medical Ltd, who Active Sole Trader’, Khadiza spread the word! have their UK Headquarters in Begum was the ‘Most Improved Chapeltown, embraced the Move Individual’ and the ‘Most Active More challenge with the highest Team’ was Legion Ops Sheffield average active minutes score with Teaching Hospital. 4 January 2019 Issue 2 A space to be active The value of parks and green spaces is well known to improve health and wellbeing, especially in people living nearby. Activity can reduce the risk of chronic diseases and may also improve mental health and wellbeing.

Sheffield City Council’s Parks & - Playground, “We also know that green spaces are Countryside Service is investing £1.2 important for getting out in the fresh - Park, million of Public Health funding to air and becoming active, whether that’s improve parks and green spaces. The - Osgathorpe Recreation Ground, through walking, running, cycling aim is to reduce the inequality in or just playing. And that’s why we’re - , healthy life expectancy across the city. putting this extra money into the parks - Richmond Park, and green spaces in the areas of the The 3-year investment programme will city that most need it. support Move More’s strategy to create - Brightside Recreation Ground, a culture of physical activity and a city “Since reopening in July, Norfolk designed to make it easier to be active. - Middlewood Park, Heritage Park playground is attracting huge numbers of families from across 12 parks are being improved in the - Springwell Park and the city who are now staying for longer first year, out of 26 planned across the - Cardwell Drive, periods. They can spend the whole day 3 years. - and Multi -Use Games Area there walking, picnicking, bike riding Parks and green spaces which improvements at Duchess Road Open and playing. Visitor numbers are also have benefitted from Public Health Space, Philadelphia Gardens. on the rise at the other improved parks investment include playground with local people making the most of improvements to: the new facilities.” Councillor Mary Lea, Cabinet Member For all the latest news and events for Culture, Sport and Leisure at “Since reopening in July, , said: “We in on Sheffield’s parks and green Norfolk Heritage Park Sheffield are proud of our green and spaces follow @parkssheffield open spaces. From huge city parks playground is attracting on Twitter, Sheffield Parks and through to ancient woodlands, open Countryside on Facebook or huge numbers of families fields and urban playgrounds, we have much to cherish and enjoy. visit The Outdoor City website at from across the city who http://theoutdoorcity.co.uk/ are now staying for longer periods.

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5 Issue 2 January 2019 Move More Ambassador Stories

Vicky Paeschel talks about how she moves more and her inspiration.

Move More Musculoskeletal (MSK) Employee Briefings

Move More has been working with the physio-based Strength for Life team from Sheffield Hallam University, running workshops for employees across six Sheffield City Council worksites. These workshops are aimed at preventing or managing MSK issues using physical activity as a medicine for movement. Move More Workplace lead Andrew Picken sits on the council’s Health and Wellbeing group. He provides advice 10 years ago, I lost my mum to Motor by South Yorkshire MND Association and support around physically active Neurone Disease (MND), a fatal, rapidly volunteers. Our monthly Walk to workplaces alongside specialists in HR, progressing disease that affects the D’Feet brings together the community, health and safety, and consultants in brain and spinal cord. I was inspired to provides a support network and is an learning and development. create the monthly ‘Move More Walk innovative way of getting information to D’Feet MND’ in the local community on MND out to the public. It encourages The briefings are popular with following my own personal experience better community integration and, every session fully booked. Sessions of the devastating impact MND has on by spending time with others, tackles cover the physical activity levels as people living with the disease, their feelings of loneliness and isolation to recommended by Sally Davies the family, friends and carers. improve the health and wellbeing of UK CMO (Chief Medical Officer) and everyone involved. It’s a walk that brings people together included a special presentation from and helps make a positive impact by There will be a 3K Move More - Walk the new Strength for Life physio team raising greater awareness of MND to D’Feet MND every month going about the benefits of strength training and supporting the vital work of the forward, and we hope to see our twice a week for the musculoskeletal local branch for people affected by walking group grow even more over system. this life-limiting disease in South time. Yorkshire. Family, friends, colleagues Employees can take part in a light I am also currently planning a big and members of the local community, practical session about strength. This Move More – Walk to D’Feet MND regardless of age or fitness levels unite, stimulated some interesting questions tribute walk on Sunday, 25th August and together take steps to d’feet MND. from the enthusiastic audience. Move 2019 and details will be confirmed in More partners Places for People Every walk is held at a different due course. and Sheffield International Venues Sheffield park with walking routes provided free gym passes so people being buggy and wheelchair friendly. Want to become a Move More could try their facilities out for a week Everyone is welcome to join in! Ambassador, sign up here https:// and put into practice what they have www.movemoresheffield.com/ The walks are held on a Saturday learnt. ambassadors morning, free to join and are organised 6 January 2019 Issue 2 All aboard the Fitbus The Reach South Sheffield Fitbus was set up in 2013 to help Community people living in the Valley, Lowedges, Batemoor and Leisure Centre Jordanthorpe areas of Sheffield to be more active. The North of Sheffield is going from The health practitioner employed pray for it to snow every week in strength to strength with a range of by RSS had found that gym and winter so I didn’t have to do outdoor activities suited to all the community. swimming were two activities that games. Now it’s the opposite, ‘Please The Stocksbridge Community Centre people wanted to do, but a lack of don’t snow tomorrow, it’s gym day!’ closed in 2013 but was re-opened by transport, confidence and the cost This scheme has changed my life in the community in 2014 with a wide were significant barriers. so many ways. I’d recommend it to range of rooms and services. anybody.’’ 125 people have used the Fitbus, with These include; a five-court sports hall, around 25 people using the service The bus runs on Monday morning indoor bowling green, activity studio, each week. Ages range from 23 to an and Wednesday dance studio, three squash courts, inspiring 96! afternoon gym, 25m pool & learner pool. There and picks up Most of the people who use the bus are activities for all ages and abilities from various had not been to a gym before, don’t and ‘Wrigglers and Tiddlers’ for new locations. The have their own transport and would borns and mums. cost is £4.50 struggle to get to the gym on their per session An exercise referral scheme has been own. which includes started for GPs to signpost people One of the service users, Annie, transport and with health conditions. This has been has been going to the gym for over access to the a huge success with a 90% retention two years. She was signposted to gym or pool. rate and an improvement of peoples the service to help her to get more For more health and wellbeing. active, lose some weight and improve information Barry is now a gym member having her balance. She has lost weight, please contact completed a 12-week exercise referral improved her strength, balance Kim Hinchliffe scheme to improve his mobility and fitness, and made new friends. on 0114 2398946 or email and ease pain: “I think the scheme ‘’When I was at school, I’d almost [email protected] was brilliant and helped me very much,” he said. “I joined the gym membership scheme and continue to be active, improving my all-round One Nation Community health”. The ONE NATION COMMUNITY project was One Nation have also introduced the first pioneered by someone who had concerns women’s only multi-sports sessions which lets about the rising antisocial behaviour in the women and girls get into sport and education. Netheredge/Sharrow area, and the need to These are aimed at those who are hard to Community engage young people and channel their energy reach and face barriers to enjoying health and in a positive way. sports. These can include male coaches, body Exercise Referral image, cost, dress code, language and other The project is led by Wajid Nazir and project communication barriers that can make women With over 20 years’ experience, Dave manager Jabina Bashir who wanted to use her feel excluded. Birds has started up Community coaching skills to help young people, especially Wellness Services, offering gentle young women and girls. One Nation is currently engaging with young exercise sessions in local community people at primary and secondary school level ‘Anti-social Behaviour was a concern for local settings. These include community with initiatives such as ‘drop the knife get a residents, who were seeing youngsters taking centres and church halls, offering life’; a joint campaign launched in 2015 by drugs or hanging around on street corners sessions for almost everyone with any Cheryl Robertson. The project deals with anti- and forming gangs. Police time was being ability or medical condition. knife awareness through education and sport, wasted as officers were forced to focus on the joint initiative also had the first ever Knife The sessions are part of the city’s nuisance behaviour, and there were concerns Surrender Bin in South Yorkshire installed at SPARS Exercise Referral pathway that not enough was being done to alleviate the One Nation. so anyone can refer people to the situation.’ sessions, or people can just turn up One Nation want to create an atmosphere of In 2016, One Nation Community won the and take part. young people ‘growing into sport’ and more prestigious ‘National Community Sports importantly using sport as a hook, to build a “We set up some fun sessions with Project’ award from Sport at the cohesive community. a friendly feel to get people moving British Ethnic Diversity Sports Awards again.” (BEDSA). They have been working to share this model in towns and cities in the UK, with Sessions are available at Shiregreen, results that are better than expected. Timetables and events are on the Shirecliffe, Chapeltown, , Facebook page at ‘One Nation , Frechville and Since then, One Nation has also won the Community’, or follow them on with more venues coming. Unsung Hero award at the Sheffield Celebration Twitter @Onenationcc, email of Sport Awards, and a Gold Sportivate Award [email protected] Contact 0114 5537807 or email us at at the Houses of Parliament. [email protected] 7 Issue 2 January 2019 Delivering Olympic Legacy in Sheffield

Six years on from the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park is bringing together elite athletes, professional sports, education, new skills and applied research to deliver a lasting health and wellbeing legacy. Former Sports Minister and Project Lead for Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park, Richard Caborn, said: “One of the unique offers in the 2012 Olympic bid was to deliver legacy on health and wellbeing through the four themes of sport, economy, local community and sustainability. “Sheffield has taken this on board and is the only city in the UK delivering this legacy thanks to many institutions working together - including Legacy Park Ltd, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Sheffield City Council and Sheffield Hallam University.” Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park specialist sites where NHS clinics are Park, a 3G pitch – to be used by incorporates Sheffield Hallam based in leisure centres, changing Sheffield United Women Football Club University’s Advanced Wellbeing delivery of NHS care and improving and home to Sheffield Eagles Rugby Research Centre (AWRC), which patient experience. League Football Club, - run routes, will act as the research hub for the Building work is underway on cycle paths, a synthetic cricket square National Centre for Sport and Exercise the AWRC which is due to open in and green open spaces for community Medicine (NCSEM) in Sheffield. 2019 and is set to become the most use. The NCSEM which oversees Move advanced research and development To keep up with news and events More is a 2012 Olympic Legacy project centre for health and physical activity follow @OLPSheffield on Twitter, locating clinical services with physical in the world, creating ‘innovations to like the Olympic Legacy Park page on activity facilities to help people with a improve health’. Facebook or search Legacy Park Ltd medical need to exercise more easily. The AWRC sits at the heart of Sheffield on LinkedIn. You can also subscribe to The project is already delivering Olympic Legacy Park, which also the monthly e-newsletter by emailing significant results - such as providing comprises the Oasis Academy Don [email protected] 80,000 appointments per year in three Valley, UTC Sheffield Olympic Legacy A Celebration of Sport Almost 700 guests attended Sheffield 2018: Hallam Barbell – which has outcomes and community issues Olympic Legacy Park’s Celebration of outreach programs including The Rt Hon Richard Caborn, Project Sport event, which was organised to Olympic Weightlifting, Powerbelle, Lead for Sheffield Olympic Legacy recognise the city’s past, present and MindfullySTRONG and Strong4Life Park, said: “The variety and level of future athletes and held at the available to all aspects of the sporting talent coming out of English Institute of Sport Sheffield community Sheffield is exceptional and - where many of the city’s sports stars • Contribution to Sport & Physical something we should all be very train, among the top names in Activity in Education 2018: Malin proud of. attendance at the event were 2012 Bridge Primary School – where PE is The event was held in the centre of Olympic champion Dame Jessica a key priority in the school’s the Indoor Athletics Arena at the Ennis-Hill development plan, allowing it to English Institute of Sport Sheffield Seven sports awards for individuals, establish an innovative curriculum and included a show opener by groups or teams in the Sheffield City that has developed staff and pupil members of Sheffield Sharks and Region were presented on the night skills Onboard Skatepark, and an auction and further information can be found • Move More Power of Sport 2018: in aid of The Children’s Hospital by going onto the website. But Burngreave collective – which takes Charity and SportsAid Yorkshire and winners included; a collective community approach to Humberside. • Community Amateur Sports Club using sport as a tool to impact social 8