Active Schools Network Progress Report

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Active Schools Network- Progress Report

• Maggie Murray
• Acting Director of Widening Opportunities -
  sportscotland

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The Active Schools Network

• Fundamental aim
• To offer children and young people the
  opportunities and motivation to adopt active,
  healthy lifestyles, now and into adulthood.

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The Active Schools Network

• Responsible for
• Developing and supporting an infrastructure for
  Active Schools within the school and wider
  community.

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The Network today

• Over 680 staff operating across all 32 local
  authorities
• 32 Active Schools Managers
• 293 Active Schools Coordinators (Primary)
• 343 Active Schools Coordinators (Secondary)
• 15 Active Schools Coordinators (ASN)

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Achievements to date

• Recruitment and deployment of staffing Network
• Increases in opportunities to get active
• Increases in session leaders
• and volunteers
• Huge variety of activities
• Impact within primary schools

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Our challenges

• Difficulty in recruiting volunteers
• Perceived uncertainty of future funding
• Provision for difficult to reach groups
• Lack of time for ASC(S)

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Evidence of impact

• Figures from primary pupil participation
  survey Yr 1 Yr 2
• Average mins. per day spent active 81 106
• achieving national activity target 56 73
• boys achieving activity target 57 74
• girls achieving activity target 52 71
• attending lunch / break clubs 25 27
• attending after school clubs 52 60

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Evidence of impact

• Figures from secondary pupil participation survey
• Yr 1 Yr 2
• Average mins. per day spent active 66 64
• achieving national activity target 44 48
• boys achieving activity target 50 47
• girls achieving activity target 38 50
• attending lunch / break clubs 23 29
• attending after school clubs 32 29

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Progress in Yr 3

• Provision is stabilising
• Active Schools is now established
• Impact of funding programmes ending
• NOPES, OSHL etc
• Future funding still perceived as an issue
• overall impression is that Active Schools has
  become well enough established to be delivering
  significant gains

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The Future of Active Schools

• What we know
• Funding now secured until 2011
• Next phase of the Network
• Volunteering
• Targeting
• Pathways
• LA commitment to next phase by March 08
• National Networking Conference 12 March 08
• Partnerships integrated working

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In summary

• At the end of the third year of the evaluation
  it is apparent that Active Schools is now
  established and has been successful at extending
  participation opportunities for young people.
• Loughborough Consortium