Issued 15th December 2016
EnergizeSTW PE and School Sport eBulletin Welcome to the 23rd edition of EnergizeSTW PE and School Sport e-bulletin. This newsletter is here for you‌ to help keep you informed of opportunities and developments influencing physical education and school sport across Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin. Do you have something that you would like to share? Drop us a line at info@energizestw.org.uk with an outline of your article and associated pictures / logos. Friends and colleagues who would like to receive this e-bulletin directly, please email info@energizestw.org.uk 01743 297191 info@energizestw.org.uk www.energizestw.org.uk @EnergizeCSP /EnergizeSTW
In this issue… Local News Happy Christmas! Shropshire Homes School Sport Festival School Games Youth Forum Impact Case Studies Shropshire Wild Teams Tip of the Month Events ‘How to Energize Your Workplace’ Badminton 4 Macmillan Go Ride Sessions in Telford Girls sessions Healthy Schools Change 4 Life School Zones New report on parents activity knowledge Funding Podium Partners Starbucks Youth Action National Policy Updates and News National School Sport Week 2016 National Obesity Awareness Week 2016 Physical Activity Infographic
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Local News
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Christmas Break & Office closure Please note that the Energize Office will be closed from Thursday 24th December and will open again on Monday 4th January.
Energize would like to thank all of our partners we’ve worked with over the past year and wish you a Merry Christmas and an Active New Year!
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School Sport Festival goes from strength to strength Preparations are now well under way for the 2016 Winter Shropshire Homes School Sport Festival, which will be held on March 1st & 2nd at Shrewsbury Sports Village. Nearly 2,000 primary and secondary pupils will be competing across 25 different sporting events. The event, part of the School Games programme, is co-ordinated by the county sports partnership Energize. Will anyone be able to stop the East Shropshire region from claiming both the primary and secondary school honours again in 2016? Harry Cade, Youth Sport Manager at Energize, said: “Those competing will have already beaten the best teams and individuals other schools in their area have to offer at the School Games level two competitions, and will be determined to do their best when representing their areas at the Shropshire Homes School Sport Festival.�
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School Sport Festival continued… The School Games programme within Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin also has its very own Youth Forum that meets on a monthly basis to help shape, create and organise aspects of the Shropshire Homes School Sport Festival. Harry said: “The idea is that these festivals are, where possible, organised for young people by young people. This year’s Youth Forum is made up of 22 pupils from schools across Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin.” As well as sporting opportunities, the School Games programme in Shropshire has been developing other cross-curricular competitions to ensure as many young people can engage with the programme as possible. For example, the ‘School Games Has Got Talent’ competition to find amazing local talent that can perform at the opening ceremonies has gone from strength to strength and showcased some truly great acts. The deadline for entering the latest event is January 8, 2016.
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School Sport Festival continued‌ There have also been flag designing competitions, Young Leadership awards and at the end of November, winners of a School Games writing competition had the opportunity to meet and talk with British tennis coach Judy Murray when she visited the Aegon championships in Shrewsbury. A new Shropshire Homes School Sport Festival Mascot designing competition is also underway for this year.
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School Games Youth Forum On the 19th November we (the School Games Youth Forum) met at Oldbury Wells secondary school in Bridgnorth. We have been organising our next steps as a team to help organise and arrange elements of the 2016 Shropshire Homes School Sport Festivals. Our Culture Team have been thinking about the mascot competition which is currently taking place and how the 6 area winning designs will be judged at the Winter Festival as well as how best to keep promoting the ‘School Games Has Got Talent’ competition to gain acts for the opening ceremonies. Team Athlete are looking at whether they could gain sponsors for resources such as bottled water, healthy snacks etc… If you know of any local Shropshire based businesses that would be willing to help out or would like further information, please contact Team Athlete via Harry Cade (harry.cade@energizestw.org.uk). Please turnover for more.. > 01743 297191 > info@energizestw.org.uk > www.energizestw.org.uk
School Games Youth Forum continued… Then there is us – Team Promotion. We’ve been looking into organising social media campaigns and linking with Team Culture for information and the deadline dates of the different competitions so we can help promote them. For information about the ‘School Games Has Got Talent’ competition (deadline 8th January) and the Mascot Competition please click here. We had our third meeting last week on the 10th December and as well as spending time in the classroom we were also joined by Ilona Loewnau the founder of ‘Shropshire Handball Foundry’ who put us through our paces as we got to grips with playing Handball. It was a great session and we’re looking forward to having Ilona come along to the Winter Festival on the 1st & 2nd March to provide those in attendance the opportunity to have a go at Handball. To keep up to date with our School Games news, follow us on Twitter @stwschoolgames and like us on Facebook /stwschoolgames. Team Promotions signing off until next month! > 01743 297191 > info@energizestw.org.uk > www.energizestw.org.uk
Primary PE & School Sport Premium Impact Case Studies Win an Energize Sporting Champion for your school! Energize would like to recognise, highlight and reward schools for their high quality delivery of PE & School Sport. Schools are invited to complete an Impact Case Study related to the five ‘Objectives’ of the Primary PE & School Sport Premium which are: • The engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity – kick-starting healthy active lifestyles. • The profile of PE and sport being raised across the school as a tool for whole school improvement. • Increased confidence, knowledge and skills of all staff in teaching PE and sport. • Broader experience of a range of sports and activities offered to all pupils. • Increased participation in competitive sport. Energize want to gain Impact Case Studies to highlight best practice and provide schools with new ideas for utilising the funding. There will be 3 opportunities to win a visit from an Energize Sporting Champion. The open & closing dates for submission of case studies are: 04/01/2016 – 12/02/2016 22/02/2016 – 24/03/2016 11/04/2016 – 27/05/2016 For further information please CLICK HERE > 01743 297191 > info@energizestw.org.uk > www.energizestw.org.uk
Tip of the Month from Shropshire Wild Teams! Simon from Shropshire Wild Team shares his tips to ‘keep on tracking.’ “With muddy paths it’s a good time to go out and find some animal tracks. To start off it might help to know the difference between a fox and a dog. If you can trace a horizontal line between the two front toes and the back toes without it touching either, it’s a fox. The line will cut through the toes of a dog print. Badger prints should show 4-5 toes in line just in front of the rear pad. The claw marks are slightly ahead of the toes. Badgers leave a distinct path of flattened vegetation or smoothed earth. Badger sett entrances are wider than they are high and fox and rabbit entrances are higher than wide. Rabbit entrances are relatively big but quickly narrow. Look around hazel stumps to find nuts. Dormice will leave a very neat smooth round hole to get inside. Bank Voles will leave teeth marks on the very inner edge of the hole while mice leave teeth marks on the inner edge as well as around it. Birds and Squirrels will crack open the nut leaving more jagged irregular shapes.”
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Events
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‘How to Energize Your Workplace’ Conference Energize are holding a Conference in Shrewsbury, bringing together local offers and support to improve employee health and wellbeing.
If you manage a team or workplace or have a responsibility for workplace health, this Conference will have information on local and national offers, research, case studies and organisations all aiming to improve health, wellbeing and team working. All delegates booking before the end of December will receive a 20% discount off admission. Click here to book now Please contact Helen with enquiries: Helen.White@energizestw.org.uk / 01743 297192
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Date: Mon 18th January 2015, 18:15 Venue: Abraham Darby Academy, Ironbridge Rd, Telford, TF7 5HX Price: £5.00 Per Team Workplace Challenge Badminton is back and this time it’s to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Support, part of the national Badminton 4 Macmillan Week. As with all Energize activities everyone is welcome, so if this is your first ever attempt at badminton or you regularly take part, we want to see you there. Workplace Challenge badminton is arranged in partnership with Telford and Wrekin Council, Badminton England and Macmillan Cancer Support. All proceeds from the event will be donated to Macmillan Cancer Support. Kit needed: Trainers and sports clothing. Time: 6:00pm Register for 6:15pm start Cost: £5 a team (max of 3 people per team) Parking: Free parking is available at the School More info needed? please call Ben on 07539 824586 How to book: Click here
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Go Ride Sessions Sessions are delivered during PE lessons by fully qualified DBS checked instructors from the Travel Telford team. This package is aimed at years 3 and above. Per class a 6 week block booking is made with the class split in half and each group having three sessions. In terms of competitive sport, it teaches them about the different cycling disciplines, signposts them to local cycling clubs for out of school interests and offers coaching for the summer School Games. The Go-Ride activities support the aims of the PE Premium and can be funded via this route. For more information contact: jessica.holohan@telford.gov.uk Six week package cost: ÂŁ220.00 (2x groups of 15 children for 3 sessions each).
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Healthy Schools Articles in this section will be linked to the Everybody Active Everyday recommendations for Schools and Higher Education as set out by Public Health England, these are:
Promoting a healthy lifestyle to pupils
Designing playgrounds to increase physical activity
Maximising the community use of school facilities
Integrating active travel into the school day
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Introducing the Change4Life School Zone Change4Life has developed a new resource for primary teachers called the School Zone, which provides curriculumlinked materials and inspiration to help you teach children about healthy eating and being active. The School Zone features exciting lesson ideas, homework tasks and whole school activities for you to use with KS1 and KS2 pupils. Subscribe to the Change4Life School Zone newsletter and get access to resources and news about the upcoming January healthy eating campaign. Click here to subscribe. To access the School Zone visit: www.nhs.uk/c4lschools
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Do parents know how much exercise children really need? New research by a Leeds Beckett University academic has revealed that parents don’t know how much physical activity their children need and are wrongly assuming that the amount of exercise children get at school is sufficient. The study involved focus groups with parents of children aged four to 16 years old. Guidelines recommend that children and young people engage in at least 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity per day and vigorous intensity activities at least three days per week. Whilst the parents recognised benefits to being physically active in childhood, they were confused about the intensity of activity necessary to gain the associated health outcomes and were generally unaware of the physical activity recommendations for children. View the full news item
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Funding
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Energize launches new crowdfunding opportunity! Energize has launched a new innovative funding scheme for the benefit of those playing and involved in sport in Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin. In association with Podium Partners, Energize want to help local young and disabled people to develop their potential and to be able to support clubs looking for new equipment or facilities. Energize offer the opportunity for the local community sports organisations and athletes to promote their campaign on the crowdfunding website, enabling them to raise funds by bringing their project to the attention of the wider public and businesses. Energize are now welcoming applications to register campaigns on the site which will benefit children and young people aged up to 25, disabled people of any age, or projects looking to help either of these two groups. The site will go live with all campaigns in January when it officially launches to the public. Please turnover for more!
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Podium Partners continued… Working with a charity partner allows donations to be eligible for Gift Aid which increases the value of each donation by reclaiming the basic rate of tax on the donation at no extra cost. This could convert every £10 donated to as much as £12.50.
Chris Child, Chief Executive of Energize says “It’s a great new initiative and we have already had a really positive response from people who want to register their campaigns on the site. We would like to have a wide variety of campaigns, from a wide range of sports, ready to go live on the site ready for the main public launch in January and would encourage people to apply to register now.” To apply now and for more information email karel@podiumpartners.org or call 07917 236619 To apply to create a campaign please visit http://energizestw.podiumpartners.org/
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Starbucks Youth Action Grants Deadline 7th March 2016 Grants of up to ÂŁ1,000 are available to inspire and empower young people to make a difference in their communities. Young people between 16 and 24 years who are not in education or employment are eligible to apply. Two young people need to lead the project and engage a further 50 young people throughout the course of the project. The young people will need to have a youth worker/training organisation able to support them throughout the project. Although the programme is primarily focused on young people not in education or employment, strong applications from other applicants will be considered. Funding is available for projects that provide a positive benefit to the local community and that look to enhance the young leaders employability and leadership skills. Further details, Online forms and budget template can be found on the UK Youth Action website at: Click here
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National Policy Updates and News
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National School Sport Week 2016 The Youth Sport Trust is delighted to announce that School Sport Week 2016 will take place from 20-24 June. This is a fantastic opportunity to encourage pupils to be more active and take part in more PE and school sport. National School Sport Week started in 2008, and last year saw almost 5000 schools and 1.8 million pupils take part! They are looking forward to seeing schools across the country celebrating Olympics and Paralympics in Rio for 2016, this year, and hope that National School Sport Week can provide resources, toolkits and ideas to help your school to get involved. To register your school for NSSW 2016, please click here.
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National Obesity Awareness Week 11th – 17th Jan 2016 Just like everyone else, children and young people need to be eating healthily and physically active. We’ve brought together some of the UK’s leading experts to offer their advice on how children and young people can be more active and eat healthily – picking up habits that will last a lifetime. Healthy eating, right from the start The earlier children start thinking of healthy living, the better. View HENRY’s 15-minute guide for parents on developing healthy eating habits with their children from a young age. You can view active play ideas from HENRY’s book, Healthy Families: Right from the Start with HENRY, to get children active from a young age to help develop the habit and increase the enjoyment they gain from it.
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Physical activity guidelines for children and young people The Chief Medical Officers' expert group on physical activity has developed an infographic which aims to present the physical activity recommendations for children and young people in a visual and comprehensible way. The group is now seeking feedback on the design of the infographic and would be grateful if you could spare some time to complete a short evaluation. Click here to view the infographic. Click here to complete the short evaluation
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Contact Us If you don’t receive this e-bulletin directly and would like to please email info@energizestw.org.uk If you would like to know more about School Games or would like advice about the Primary School Sport Premium, contact: HARRY CADE: Youth Sport Manager For information about Sportivate projects, contact: BEN HARPER: Senior Sports Manager If you would like information about Energize’s Sporting Champion programme, contact: HELEN MADDEN: Office Manager For information about Satellite Clubs, contact: JOE LOCKLEY: Club Development Manager
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