Active Schools in Action www.joininedinburgh.org/sports/active-schools/ Follow us @ActiveSchoolsED Foreward 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 Edinburgh 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). Distinct Participants 18846 20000 17878 15163 8835 10000 10011 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 443426 2015/16 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. Inclusion Participant Sessions in Special Schools 4974 6095 9069 0 1000 3000 5000 7000 900010000 2014/15 2015/16 2017/18 Participant Sessions in Special Schools Participant sessions in Special Schools significantly grew in 2017/18 to just over 9,000 participant sessions, an increase of just under 3,000. 4 Young Ambassadors from Special Schools 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 20000 10000 0 2017/18 Decile 1 Decile 2 Decile 3 Decile 4 Decile 5 Decile 6 Decile 7 Decile 8 Decile 9 Decile 10 Active Pupils by Decile 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. Netball @ Craigmount High School 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.