Annual Report 2017-18
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Contents Manager’s Report
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About Active Schools
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Strategic Context
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National Outcomes for Active Schools
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Impact 2017-18
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Learning Community Reports
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Manager’s Review
Andrew McKay Active Schools Manager
As we approach the final year of current cycle of funding for Active Schools, it is important to reflect on the year just past and review our performance against our goals. So how did we do in 2017-18? In terms of participation I’m delighted to report a 5% increase in pupil attendances at extra-curricular provision - to 106,000. That’s over 5,000 more visits by pupils and a 32% (26,000) increase in attendances since 2014. It’s worth noting that the number of distinct participants also grew - to 5,860 pupils (47% of school roll), so we are engaging more children and young people.
School sport via our WD School Games scheme continued to go from strength to strength this year with a busy calendar of 78 festivals, competitions and finals taking place and over 6,000 attendances by pupils. I’m very pleased to see we are seeing ever more engagement from schools and a number of schools now looking to plan their PE around the School Games schedule, which is exciting.
This year saw a change in our digital communications, with the migration of our facebook page into the central WD Leisure page, with support from the council’s communications team. This is enabling us to tell our stories to a wider audience and have seen an Our volunteer network continues to be increase in reach and engagement. strong with over 311 people giving of Our Volunteer of the Month and their own time to help get children and Young Sports Stars posts are proving young people more active before very popular and are a good way to school, at lunchtimes and after raise our profile. school. A huge thank you to all the teachers, school staff, parents, sport Effective partnerships continue to be students, high school pupils and club central to our success. Active School coaches for your enthusiasm and Coordinators continued to work dedication - the impact of what you do closely with school staff and West cannot be underestimated. College Scotland, while partnerships with 35 local sports clubs further In June, it was great to see 67 senior strengthened the pathways between high school pupils attend our Sports school and community. This year also Leadership training at the new saw some significant partnership Clydebank Leisure Centre, where working with the Education, Learning they accessed sports specific courses and Attainment Department, providing as well as Disability Inclusion, numerous Easter and Summer Safeguarding & Protecting Children holiday camps across the region in and Competition Organiser training. our most deprived communities. I look The Active Schools Coordinators then forward to strengthening our work in worked with PE staff to provide the relation to attainment in 2018-19. Sports Leaders with opportunities to deliver during lunchtime and I trust you find this summary of the after-school clubs - and support our 2017-18 academic year interesting WD School Games events. and informative. 3
About Active Schools The Active Schools Network consists of over 400 managers and coordinators across Scotland dedicated to developing and supporting the delivery of quality sporting opportunities for children and young people. Active Schools aims to provide more and higher quality opportunities to take part in sport and physical activity before school, during lunchtime and after school, and to develop effective pathways between schools and sports clubs in the local community. Active Schools Coordinators work with primary, secondary and additional support needs schools to increase the number and diversity of children and young people participating in Active Schools activities. Coordinators also have a key role in developing a network of volunteers to deliver activity sessions. These volunteers include teachers, parents, school staff, students, sports coaches and senior pupils who are central to the success of Active Schools.
The Active Schools service is part of West Dunbartonshire Leisure Trust and operates mainly within the Education environment, working closely with senior management in schools i.e. Head Teachers and/or Deputy Head/Principal Teachers in primary schools and Principle Teachers of PE in secondary schools. We take the lead in the planning, organisation, establishment and growth of sport and physical activity opportunities in schools and where appropriate, in local communities. The work of Active Schools contributes significantly to the Physical Education, Physical Activity and Sport experiences and outcomes under Health and Wellbeing of Curriculum for Excellence. The Active Schools team in West Dunbartonshire is made up of an Active Schools Manager and seven Active Schools Coordinators. The team work with all the primary and secondary schools across the region. Each Co-ordinator is responsible for a group of schools, within one or across two school Learning Communities where these are large. Our excellent relationships with schools is a key element of our success. 4
Strategic context Sport contributes directly to the Scottish Government’s vision of a Scotland where more people are more active, more often. In recent years, sportscotland and partners have been using the ‘world class sporting system’ model below to guide our work and contribution to a more active Scotland.
The Active Schools Network contributes to the world class sporting system model by focussing on the enablers of People and Profile in order to achieve positive outcomes for Participation.
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National Outcomes for Active Schools
1. Increased number of children & young people participating in school and community sport.
more young people more active more often
2. Increased capacity through the recruitment, retention and development of a network of volunteers to deliver sport in schools and the wider community.
providing opportunities to get involved & stay involved in sport
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WD School Games High Schools Basketball 7
Impact 2017-18
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38 secondary school pupil sports leaders
64% of sessions delivered by volunteers
311 volunteers (91% of deliverers)
78 WD School Games festivals and competitions
765 Twitter followers
26,625 reach: Volunteer of Month facebook posts
47% of school roll participated (5,860 distinct participants)
5,432 female attendances (47% of total)
6,000 School Games participants
19,578 attendances at 356 club taster sessions
105,727
attendances at extra-curricular clubs 9
Club link with Drumchapel Tennis Club
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Clydebank Learning Community Secondary Schools Clydebank High (CHS) Kilpatrick ASN Primary Schools Carleith Clydemuir Cunard Edinbarnet Goldenhill
Extra-curricular provision has continued to rise [by 183 sessions] leading to significant increases in participation at Clydemuir, Whitecrook. and Linnvale who saw a 50% increase this year to almost 3,000 attendances. Gavinburn reached over 3,000 attendances for the third year running and Clydebank High once again had a rise in sessions and attendances (+50 sessions; +1,4887 attendances) with Basketball, Netball and Football proving most popular this year. There is still work to do as only 19% of the school roll participated in our provision this year., however the school has seen a 131% increase in participation over the past three years - and importantly, female participation has risen from 29% to 62% in this period.
Gavinburn Kilbowie Linnvale Whitecrook Kilpatrick ASN Goldenhill also had an outstanding year of sport with a win at the P5 Golf Final and 3rd place at the Cross Country, Tennis and Basketball Finals. They topped of an excellent year with 1st place in the Large School category. Edinbarnet were victorious at the P6 Rugby Finals, won the Netball B League and came 3rd at the Netball Final. They also qualified for the Sportshall Athletics final and finished 3rd overall in the Medium School category. Other notable achievements include Carleith finishing second in the Small School category overall and Kilbowie winning the Netball C League.
Overall, the increases school by school in 2017-18 have contributed to a 16% increase in participation across the Learning Community, to over 28,000 attendances, which is very positive.
18 local sports clubs linked with schools this year including Glasgow Gaels Football Club who are based out of the new Clydebank Community Sports Hub. Three more schools were added to the curriculum-time programme, with seven schools from the area now involved and tournaments at the end of the blocks really helped to engage pupils in the sport. We are sure their new facility at Whitecrook will really enable the club to continue to grow it’s junior section.
WD School Games was a big hit again this year with all schools attended the majority of competitions with some outstanding performances. Linnvale were triumphant in the Netball A League and were crowned WD Netball Champions. They also won the Most Improved School Award and finished second overall in the Medium School category.
Our partnership with Glasgow Fever Basketball Club was strengthened with WD Leisure surplus funds being secured to extend the reach and impact of their Clydebank Development Officer & School of Basketball at Clydebank High. Three new weekly extracurricular clubs and two new community sessions were established in addition to the existing one at the high school.
Five schools from the Learning Community had over 70% of their school role participating in extracurricular activity in 2017/18.
2017-18 IN NUMBERS 83 Volunteer deliverers
1,854 Sessions
1,587 Distinct participants
28,069 Attendances (47% female)
50% of school roll participating Figures relate to extra-curricular Active Schools provision only and may not reflect all school sport.
LOOKING AHEAD Recruitment of parent and school community volunteers will be a priority to compliment the teacher and school staff volunteers.
Increasing participation in Clydebank High School will continue to be a focus for 2018-19.
Working with schools to target nonparticipants will be an ongoing area of work next year.
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St Peter the Apostle Learning Community Secondary School St Peter the Apostle High (SPTA) Primary Schools Our Holy Redeemer (OHR) Our Lady of Loretto (OLL) St Eunan’s
The primary schools across the Learning Community had an extremely positive year of sporting participation. All schools have achieved some excellent results in terms of extra-curricular provision and participation, six of the seven schools seeing an increase in participation this year. St Eunan’s had the biggest rise in participation with a 43% increase, while increasing their distinct participants by 50%. This increase in different pupils participating was seen across the schools with all of the primary schools having more than 50% of the school role participating in Active Schools activities. The high school figure was 19% and is an area of focus moving forward.
St. Joseph’s St Mary’s (Duntocher) St Stephen’s
2017-18 IN NUMBERS
Links with local sports clubs remain strong across the schools with 16 clubs linked to schools. Glasgow Gaels FC have been an instrumental club in the area this year, increasing their delivery to provide more pupils with the Volunteer deliverers opportunity to experience Gaelic Football. New additions to the programme this year were St Stephen’s, St Eunan’s and St Peter the Apostle Sessions High School.
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Glasgow Fever Basketball Club has also provided some excellent support across the learning community by providing a curriculum programme along with breakfast, lunch and after school provision. It’s exciting to see Basketball grow in popularity and provision across Clydebank.
The overall number of extracurricular attendances for the Learning Community was 20,830, an increase of 799 (4%) All schools participated well in the WD At the start of the Academic year the Active school team ran a volunteer recruitment campaign, this was to encourage the local community to volunteer and support all elements of school sport. Within the learning community of St Peter the Apostle there was a fantastic response with parents coming forward to offer support. We will look to replicate this in 2018-19. St Joseph's and St Stephen’s have both qualified and applied for the sportscotland Gold School Sports Award and are currently awaiting their result. OLOL, St Mary’s and St Peter the Apostle all qualified and achieved the Silver Award.
School games calendar of competitions and festivals, with some excellent performances. This year saw the first West Dunbartonshire School Games P5 Basketball Final and OLL were crowned [undefeated] champions. St Mary’s had a great end to the year winning the Cross Country, Sportshall Athletics and the P4 Tennis Final - resulting in a second place finish in the Large School category - just 4 points short of the winners. St Stephen’s finished runnersup in the Netball A league as well as the Netball Final. St Mary’s finished runner up in the Netball B league. It’s great to see how so many pupils are enjoying taking part in the School Games events and taking pride in representing their school—and that a number of schools are looking to link their PE delivery to the calendar of events.
1,356 Distinct participants
20,830 Attendances (45% female)
42% of school roll participating
Figures relate to extra-curricular Active Schools provision only and may not reflect all school sport.
LOOKING AHEAD Increase participation in St Peter the Apostle High School.
Increase the number of Volunteers
delivering across the learning community. Support all schools to achieve and retain the School Sports Awards. Increase the Distinct Participants across the learning community.
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Our Lady & St Patrick’s Learning Community Secondary School Our Lady and St. Patrick’s High School Primary Schools St. Kessog’s St. Martin’s St. Mary’s St. Michael’s
Over the course of the year schools competed in a range of WD School Games festivals including Athletics, Basketball, Cross Country, Dodgeball, Football, Golf, Netball, Rugby, Swimming and Tennis - with St Michael’s reaching the final of the Rugby and Basketball and St. Mary’s also reaching the final of the P6 Rugby. It was another good year for school to club links, especially with the Vale of Leven Cricket club, who ran curricular sessions and then a festival at the cricket club in June. This year also saw our partnership grow with Dumbarton Harp Netball Club - through our evening netball sessions based at the Meadow Centre. This is for P5-S1 pupils and aims is to bridge the gap between school netball and senior club netball by providing pathways for young people to continue playing netball after primary school and well into secondary school. We have around 20 girls coming along every week which is fantastic!
We had new links this term with Dance Off Academy and Pinkie Fit Dance in the lead up to our WD School Games Dance Festival. We introduced martial arts into schools again, with Judo extracurricular clubs running in St Michael’s and Taekwondo in St Ronan’s and St Michael’s. St Patricks Primary School achieved Gold in the School Sport Award for a second time running which is a fantastic achievement.
St. Patrick’s St. Peter’s St. Ronan’s
As a result of this award we aim to continue the great work and keep building the school sport ethos within the school. Our strong partnership with West College Scotland saw 5 sport students provided with placements within the learning community. It was pleasing to see them develop and some of them volunteer over and above their placement hours. In terms of data, overall for the learning community, the number sessions delivered was up by 215 (26%); attendances were up by over 3,500 (30%); and the percentage of school roll participating rose by 6% (to 43%). OLSP saw a 64% (813) increase in attendances to just over 2,000 which is positive, however there remains work to do as this total is someway short of the 4,500 average for secondary schools. Of particular note are St. Martin's and St Mary’s, who both saw big increases in provision and participation. St. Martin’s had an increase of 267% in the number of activity sessions [from 22 to 77] compared to last year. This enabled 950 more attendances by pupils and 85% of the school roll to get involved. The school gained a Silver School Sport Award and have laid the groundwork to apply for Gold during 2018-19. St. Mary’s also had big increases with 57 more sessions and 814 more attendances than last year - which means participation has doubled. This led to 69% of their school roll participating which is very encouraging.
2017-18 IN NUMBERS 47 Volunteer deliverers
1,028 Sessions
988 Distinct participants
15,558 Attendances (48% female)
44% of school roll participating Figures relate to extra-curricular Active Schools provision only and may not reflect all school sport.
LOOKING AHEAD Recruitment of parent/community volunteers will be a priority. Work with the Sports Leaders in OLSP and create more extra curricular opportunities. Support St Michael's and St Kessog’s with School Sport Awards. Encourage others to
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Dumbarton Learning Community Secondary School Dumbarton Academy Primary Schools Aitkenbar Braehead Dalreoch Knoxland In terms of provision and participation, this year saw a 24% (159) increase in sessions delivered, which in turn led to a 23% (2,644) increase in the number of attendances and a 10% increase in distinct participants. Dalreoch saw a huge 97% (656) increase in attendances this year and 85% of their pupils participate, which is fantastic. Braehead saw a 42% (658) increase; Aitkenbar had a 33% (516) increase; and Knoxland had a 12% (422) increase n participation. Dumbarton Academy also saw an increase in participation of 9% (392), with 45% of attendances by female pupils.
Volunteer recruitment and retention remains one of the key roles of Active Schools and this year saw 30 new volunteers delivering activity sessions across the Learning Community, 17 retained who also delivered last year - and 13 attendances at Coach Education training. 2017/18 continued to prove to be a very successful year in our WD School Games. Pupils from P2-7 took part in a wide range of festivals and competitions, which was great to see. School sport competitions again proved popular this year as we saw an increase in representation of schools at all our festivals and competitions. Aitkenbar were winners of the Dumbarton Golf, Rugby and Netball - and finished second at the Tennis Qualifier.
As a result, they went on to compete in the School Games Finals for each of these 4 sports. After winning both the Dumbarton Area Heat for the Sports Hall athletics and the P4 tennis Qualifier, Knoxland came third in the large school category at year end. Dumbarton Academy again had strong representation at all School Games festivals, with impressive winning performances at both Cross Country events and were again crowned Secondary School champions at our awards night in June. They also collected the Spirit of the School Games Award, which was a great double success. To build on the success of last years transition clubs, this year all P7 pupils were invited to join the extra-curricular Football (Girls and Boys); Basketball; Rugby; Multi-sports; Badminton and Netball clubs at Dumbarton Academy from Term 1. Each club was well attended and gave P7 pupils the opportunity to both familiarise themselves with both the facilities and staff at Dumbarton Academy - and also gave them an insight into the clubs that would be available to them in Secondary School. This success of this programmes was thanks to an extremely pro-active PE Department at Dumbarton Academy, the Sports Leaders and the support from the feeder primary schools.
2017-18 IN NUMBERS 47 Volunteer deliverers
820 Sessions
717 Distinct participants
14,345 Attendances (46% female)
50% of school roll participating
Figures relate to extra-curricular Active Schools provision only and may not reflect all school sport.
LOOKING AHEAD Continued recruitment of parent volunteers will be a priority. Working closely with the PE Dept. to support Sports Leaders Support the Schools in School Sport Award applications.
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Vale of Leven Learning Community Secondary School Vale of Leven Academy (VOLA) Primary Schools Bonhill Christie Park Gartocharn Haldane
Jamestown (Balloch) Lennox Levenvale Renton
Strong school to club links continued with a number of clubs this year. Loch Lomond Rugby Club and Vale of Leven Cricket club were particularly pro-active, both delivering curriculum -time programmes to 7 schools with festivals for P5 cricket, P3 & P6 rugby. The area has had two different community programmes running this year. The first was working in partnership with Dumbarton Harp netball club targeting P5-7 players. The second was with Loch Lomond Rugby Club, following a very successful curriculumtime programme in all of the local schools. 2017/18 proved to be a very successful year for the learning community representation in WD School Games. There was a high representation at all festivals and events including Football, Tennis, Dodgeball, Basketball and Rugby. Gartocharn were crowned winners of the small school category and Vale of Leven Academy came second in the secondary schools category behind Dumbarton Academy. Lennox Primary School saw a great 84% increase in extra-curricular activity sessions, going from 50 in 2016-17 to 92 sessions in 2017-18. This was a result of the school having an HNC Sports Coaching Student on placement for the first time, school staff delivering afterschool clubs and a local dance school delivering lunchtime sessions. Lennox were also very involved in the School Games and reached the final of our P4 Tennis and P5 Basketball competitions a fantastic achievement.
In addition, one of their pupils, Skye Kane, was selected as our Active Schools “Young Sports Star of the Month” for July 2018, due to her achievements and dedication to Judo. This project is linked to the Year of Young People 2018 and aims to highlight and celebrate the achievements of some of our pupils. Christie Park primary have had another successful year in terms of participation within their school. They have built on the good work that was done last year and have managed to mould that into a sustainable model - including parent volunteers - in order to maintain their very high participation rate of over 7,000 attendances and 87% of pupils involved. The pupils also performed really well in the WD School Games competitions, finishing up as overall champions in the medium sized school category. Bonhill continued to increase both their provision and participation rates (by 51% and 22% respectively) and had 74% of the school roll participate in 2017-18 which is very good. Overall for the learning community, both provision and participation dropped in 2017-18. Sessions delivered was down by 5% (67) and participation was down by 17% (4,651). This is largely due to the significant drop in provision and participation at VOLA and the merger of Jamestown and Haldane Primary Schools - to become the new Balloch Primary School during the school year. Plans are in place for provision in 201819 including joint working with St Kessog’s who share the campus.
2017-18 IN NUMBERS 59 Volunteers deliverers
1,244 Sessions
1,212 Distinct participants
22,127 Attendances (47% female)
49% of school roll participating
Figures relate to extra-curricular Active Schools provision only and may not reflect all school sport.
LOOKING AHEAD Recruitment of parent volunteers continues to be a focus. Increasing participation at VOLA is key in 2018-19 Working with Sports Leaders to deliver extra-curricular sessions .
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Basketball Final
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