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Source: Sport England 09.12.21
Active Lives Children and Young People Survey Academic Year 2020-21 Report.pdf
Sport England’s latest Active Lives Children and Young People Survey report evidences the benefits on mental health and loneliness. Existing inequalities have widened, and new issues have arisen with boys losing active habits.
Children and young people’s activity levels co
Source: Active your class EU Nov 2021
https://www.activateyourclass.eu/
Activate_Curriculum_digital.pdf
A new European physically active learning (PAL) teacher training curriculum has been launched. The curriculum has been developed as part of a six nation partnership project, called ACTivate. The objective of the project is to co-create, with teachers and other school stakeholders, an innovative European-wide open access PAL education programme, web portal and community of practice.
The curri
Source: Youth Sport Trust 06.10.21
Children across the country have reported feeling fitter and stronger - not just physically but mentally - since returning to a more active way of learning following a year of disruption.
A group of ten schools across the UK have been working with children’s charity the Youth Sport Trust to introduce and evaluate ‘Active
Source: Youth Sport Trust 11.10.21
Periods, low confidence, and other people watching. New data has shown that girls are continuing to report the same barriers to physical activity in schools.
Data from the Youth Sport Trust’s Girls Active programme over the last three years has revealed the barriers remain the same, but periods have become a bigger concern for gi
Source: Sport England 29.09.2021
https://www.sportengland.org/news/new-video-pe-classes-teenage-girls
A new video-on-demand platform is hoping to inspire teenage girls to get active through fun PE lessons. This Girl Can’s Studio You launches today and aims to increase the number of teenage girls meeting the Chief Medical Officer’s guideline level of physical activity for their age.
Currently 57% of girls aged 13-16 are not meeting the guidelines, with a 52.9% citing a lack of confidence and 5
Source: Sustrans.org 27.09.21
Figures released by Sustrans to mark this year's Bike to School Week reveal that only 2% of children cycle to school, but many more wish they could.
Sustrans commissioned a UK-wide YouGov survey of 1,305 children aged 6-15 to find out about their journey to and from school. The survey found that just 2% of pupils actually travel by bike, but 14% w
Source: Gov.uk 23.07.2021
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rediscover-summer-activity-booklet
Redicover_Summer_activity_booklet.pdf
The Rediscover Summer home activity booklet provides primary school age children with free and fun ideas and activities to do, both at home and outside, with friends and families this summer.
It aims to inspire children and families to get out and about, and make the most of the summer safely. With this in mind, some of the activities may, depending on the
Source: Gov.uk 29.07.2021
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-mental-health-and-wellbeing-surveillance-report
This report is about population mental health and wellbeing in England during the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes up-to-date information to inform policy, planning and commissioning in health and social care. It is designed to assist stakeholders at nat
Source: The Lancet 21.07.2021
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01259-9/fulltext
Young people aged 10–24 years constitute 24% of the world's population; investing in their health could yield a triple benefit—eg, today, into adulthood, and for the next generation. However, in physical activity research, this life stage is poorly understood, with the evidence dominated by research in younger adolescents (aged 10–14 years), school settings, and high-income countries
Source: The Young Foundation
https://www.youngfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Amplify-Youth-Final-Report-2019.pdf
The Young Foundation’s mission is to develop better connected and stronger communities across the UK.
As an UKRI accredited research organisation, social investor and community practitioner, we offer advice, training and delivery support to:
Understand Communities Researching in and with communities to increase your understanding of community life today.
Involve Communit
Source: iser March 2021
School closures have been one of the most dramatic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on society. Concerns about the impact of school closures on children’s learning were raised early on in the pandemic and work continues to mitigate lost learning. There is also widespread concern about the de
Source: Play England 29.06.21
https://www.playengland.org.uk/newsblog/playday-2021
Playday is the national day for play - a partnership of all four nations of the UK held on the first Wednesday in August. Playday 2021 will be celebrated on Wednesday 4 August.
The theme for this year’s Playday is Summer of Play. The Playday 2021 theme recognises the challenges children and young people have faced over the past year and the need to enjoy time for play free of restrictions, with their friends, ha
Source: Premier League Primary Stars July 21
https://plprimarystars.com/resources/pe-planning-toolkit
The Premier League is launching the first phase of new PE planning and delivery resources through its flagship education programme, Premier League Primary Stars. The Premier League Primary Stars PE Planning Toolkit is a complete package of teaching and learning materials, designed to increase primary school teachers’ confidence in planning PE lessons and helping them to deliver a more inclusiv
Source: association for Physical Education 21.06.21
afPE-Taskforce-Report-on-the-Future-of-Physical-Education-Final.pdf
The Association for Physical Education (afPE) has launched a report from its Education Taskforce which issues a clear call to government to put physical education at the heart of school life.
The pandemic has taken a huge toll on our children and young people. Schools
Source: Activity Alliance 9 June 21
http://www.activityalliance.org.uk/news/6210-british-blind-sport-scales-up-see-my-voice-programme
Following the success of the three year See My Voice programme British Blind Sport is delighted to announce that it has been selected by Sport England as one of only five organisations that have been given the opportunity to ‘scale up’ the programme.
See My Voice was developed to support blind and partially sighted young people achieve leadership skills through
Source: Sport and Recreation Alliance 21st May 21
https://www.sportandrecreation.org.uk/news/covid-19/new-insight-reveals-young-people-are-less-lik
Children and young people are less likely to return to organised community activity post-lockdown than adults, according to new research by the Sport and Recreation Alliance.
The findings show that junior memberships fell by 67% during lockdown, with a projected return at almost 30% less than pre-pandemic levels.
These impacts were felt more keenly
Source: Swim England 12 May 2021
https://www.swimming.org/swimengland/impact-coronavirus-school-swimming-report/
Impact of Coronavirus on School Swimming and Water Safety report.pdf
More than one million children could leave primary school in the next five years unable to swim the minimum standards required under the national curriculum, according to worrying new predictions.
The startling figures have been published by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Swimming and recognised national gov
Source: Sport Youth Trust May 21
The Youth Sport Trust is asking schools, teachers, parents, and organisations across the UK to get behind a national summer of school sports days after a year in which young people had their worlds turned upside down.
The Youth Sport Trust has announced its annual campaign, National School Sport Week, is back running under the theme of
