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Active Schools
Support and Development
Key Links
Below are some key links to organisations that provide resources and wider programmes for schools in the areas of physical activity and health. These are well worth spending some time looking through.
| Primary Sport Wellington | www.primarysportwellington.org.nz |
| Enviroschools | www.enviroschools.org.nz |
| National Heart Foundation | www.heartfoundation.org.nz/programmes-resources/schools-and-eces/ |
| Cancer Society - Sun Smart | www.cancernz.org.nz/reducing-your-cancer-risk/sunsmart/ |
| Sport Wellington - Schools Page | www.sportwellington.org.nz/schools/ |
| Regional Public Health - Health Promoting Schools | www.huttvalleydhb.org.nz/RPH/Article.aspx?ID=1177 |
| Healthy Eating Healthy Action | www.moh.govt.nz/healthyeatinghealthyaction |
| SPARC Resource Page | www.sparc.org.nz/en-nz/young-people/ |
| GWRC Active Transport | www.gw.govt.nz/schooltravelplans/ |
2012 Workshops
Physical Activity and Physical Education modules are available for any school that wants to have some development in this area. The workshop takes a small group of teachers through the application of specific activities, themes or teaching theories, planning structures and methods for PE inclusion across the whole school, investigates several key resources and links in with many other community extra and co-curricular activities. It can also incorporate elements of student leadership and teaching physical skills through games if required.
There is some opportunity for Activation to fund parents or teachers to attend specific professional development workshops in the areas of Active Travel, First Aid, Physical Education and Extra-Curricular Physical Activity areas. These vary year to year so please contact Michael Mercer for current information about these opportunities.
Previous recipients have gone on PENZ courses relation to EOTC, First Aid, Primary Activity Leaders workshops through Sport Wellington, PE Planning through Victoria University, Sports Coaching philosophy and many more.
Volunteer Promotion
As a result of feedback from principals and the Parents Project that Activation runs, a social marketing campaign has occurred targeting parents in schools to promote volunteering. Each year an annual promotion occurs to encourage more people to take up the volunteer challenge. In 2010 Activation staff were out at your schools trying to encourage more parents to volunteer. They have been discussing the many benefits of being a volunteer and the ways which they can get involved in your school. 2011 will see resource packs filled with promotional material be distributed to schools in the area. Hopefully this has increased the awareness of our community and you may see a few more parents on the sideline and helping out with school events and sports teams.
If there is anyone you know of that would be great to get involved, please put them in touch with Michael Mercer.
Parents Project
Parents – a key member of any organisation, group or activity. Someone who lends a helping hand where needed, washes the uniforms, performs a taxi service for the kids, coaches the sports team and generally functions as a gap filler in our community. These roles and more are essential to many activities and without having them probably would not exist.
Activation has identified that parents are the batteries that make many sports and recreation opportunities and activities run. A project has been developed to work alongside schools and parents to help provide training opportunities and the support to enhance and assist parents to continue doing the amazing job they have, to get more parents actively involved, and to initiate any great ideas they would like to bring to the schools.
“This is a great project creating a myriad of opportunities for our students and young people to get active. By building the capacity of individuals who can utilise it through their current and future engagement with our schools and further transfer their knowledge to others in the community, we can make a huge impact towards getting our students more active more often.” Michael Mercer, Active Schools Coordinator at Upper Hutt City Council says.
The project is underway and training oppoutunities, resources and support have been made available to the group. Over the next 9 months action plans will be developed with their schools and these parents will become the driving force behind a number of sports, recreation and health initiatives. Each schools community actions will be unique with projects matching the need of their school environment. These could range from school sport teams coaching and management, organising school events, inter-school competions, fitness clubs, health and environment projects and many more! Our latest success is three of our parents have registered for a cycle skills training workshop! This will allow them to take students for a level one course back inside their respective schools. Well done guys!
If you want to get more involved in your school community through this project, get in touch with your schools parent contact or contact Michael directly at Activation, Upper Hutt City Council.
Several successes have been seen in 2011 with the revision of the Schools website, a bog challenge and night run event occurring for the first time in Upper Hutt for our students and the exciting prospect of an army or service (Police, Fire etc) event happening early 2012.
Resources
Below are some specific resources which might be useful to teachers, parents and students. Please note, other resources are also available in other sections of the Activation website.
Physically Active Homework Booklet
Click here to download the Physically Active Homework Resource here (pdf318KB)
Coach Packs
These packs are available for any coach who is taking a school team which will compete in the zone tournament to access and use. They cover a range of sports codes that have inter-school competitions.
Click below on the sport you require a coach pack for:
Activation brochure
Generic brochure about Activation and the work we undertake in the community.
Click here to download the Activation brochure (pdf 226K)
Engage and Retain Young Members in Your Club
Tool for clubs to promote ways to encourage young members to join and stay at your club.
Click here to downlaod the Activation Clubs brochure (pdf 274K)
Active Futures Brochure
Series of development workshops for anyone involved in sports and physical activity.
Please note: this brochure is not yet available
Active Parent Education Toolkit
Information for parents on physical activity and their child. A great resource for all parents!
Click here to download the Active Parent Education toolkit (pdf 2.79M)
Volunteer Resources (Local)
Some resources regarding volunteering and the benefits of being a volunteer. Please note further resources are available in this area from the SPARC website above.
Click here to download the Volunteer Resource (pdf 820K)
Schools/Teachers Resources
Physical Activity and the Curriculum
http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/Curriculum-resources/NZC-resource-bank/Health-and-physical-education/Key-resources/Physical-activity-and-physical-education-within-health-and-physical-education-in-the-New-Zealand-curriculum-A-primary-school-teacher-s-perspective-Word-191KB
Active Schools Toolkit
http://www.sparc.org.nz/en-nz/young-people/Ages-5-12-Years/Active-Schools-Toolkit/
Kiwidex – Electronic Version
http://www.sparc.org.nz/en-nz/young-people/Ages-5-12-Years/KiwiDex/
Fundamental Movement Skills – Electronic Version
http://www.sparc.org.nz/en-nz/young-people/Ages-5-12-Years/Developing-Fundamental-Skills/
Physical Activity Guidelines NZ
http://www.sparc.org.nz/en-nz/young-people/Activity-Guidelines-5-18-Years/
Rugby World Cup Resources
http://www.nz2011.govt.nz/get-involved/information-toolkits-for-everyone/schools
http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/fanzone/education/index.html
www.rugbyworldcup.com/kidzone
http://www.ruggerland.co.nz/
http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/mm/Document/Tournament/Destination/02/04/31/27/HowtogetinvolvedFINAL.pdf
http://www.nz2011.govt.nz/get-involved/rugby-world-cup-2011-education-programme
School Programme Ideas
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20550840
52 Whanau Activities Booklet PDF Download
Teaching Games for Cross-Sports Code Learning
http://www.ophea.net/article/featured/helping-ontario-s-kids-get-game-how-teaching-games-understanding-rearranging-rules-
Active Homework
Smith, M. & Claxton, D. (2003). Using Active Homework in Physical Education. Journal of Physical
Education, Recreation and Dance, 74, pp. 28-32.
http://keycompetencies.tki.org.nz/In-teaching/Discussion-tools/PRIDE-challenges
http://keycompetencies.tki.org.nz/In-teaching/Discussion-tools/PRIDE-challenges
http://www.1seven.com.au/
http://www.ophea.net/
http://www.sirc.ca/online_resources/free_newsletter_articles/449815.cfm
Role Models
http://www.ausport.gov.au/participating/schools_and_juniors/juniors/issues/motivation
After School Physical Activity
http://s3.arpaonline.ca/docs/Stone-Soup-After-School-Rec-Strategy.pdf
http://www.ausport.gov.au/news/releases/story_430934_helping_to_get_kids_active_after_school
Nutrition Resources
http://healthylifestyles.tki.org.nz/Nutrition-websites/NZ-Government-resources
http://www.kiwifamilies.co.nz/UserFiles/File/pack_lunch_primary.pdf
https://www.healthed.govt.nz/resource/eating-healthy-children-aged-2-12ng%C4%81-kai-t%C5%8Dtika-m%C5%8D-te-hunga-k%C5%8Dhungahunga
Children and the Outdoors
http://www.childrenandnature.org/blog/2011/09/24/natures-own-stimulus-package-7-ways-to-improve-our-lives-in-tough-economic-times/
http://s3.arpaonline.ca/docs/Children-Nature-Survey-Report.pdf
Social Sport
Better with A Buddy PDF Download
Physical Activity Benefits (General)
http://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/factsheet_young_people/en/index.html
http://www.activehealthykids.ca/
http://www.sparc.org.nz/Documents/Young%20People/4A_stayandplay.pdf
http://www.dsr.wa.gov.au/brain-boost-sport-and-physical-activity-enhance-childrens-learning
http://www.kidspot.com.au/schoolzone/Sport-All-about-school-sport+4259+401+article.htm
http://www.moh.govt.nz/moh.nsf/indexmh/activity-benefits
http://www.sportengland.org/research/the_value_of_sport_monitor.aspx
Parents and Children’s Sport and Physical Activity
http://www.podiumsportsjournal.com/2011/01/05/five-important-ways-sportsparents-can-best-encourage-young-athletes/
Parent Influences on Adolescents Physical Activity PDF Download
http://www.dsr.wa.gov.au/assets/files/Parents/Active%20Parent%20Education%20Kit.pdf
Active Movement Video’s – Parents and young children’s learning.
http://www.sparc.org.nz/en-nz/young-people/Ages-0-5-Years/Active-Movement-Resources1/Active-Movement-Videos1/
Active Transport
School Travel Plans and Resources
http://www.gw.govt.nz/schooltravelplans/
http://www.gw.govt.nz/schooltravelresources/
http://www.gw.govt.nz/assets/Transport/School-Travel-Plan-Images-and-Documents/School-Travel-Initiative-Ideas.pdf
http://www.gw.govt.nz/assets/Transport/School-Travel-Plan-Images-and-Documents/Web-Resources.pdf
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14580626 (abstract)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19177954 (abstract)
Teachers Resource- Sustainable Travel
http://www.gw.govt.nz/assets/Transport/School-Travel-Plan-Images-and-Documents/WGNDOCS-739852-v1-MoveItTeachersResource-ECANPaulDeSpa.pdf
Walking To School Parents and Teachers Guides
http://www.nzta.govt.nz/resources/feet-first-parents-guide/docs/Feet-First-Parents-Guide-English.pdf
http://www.police.govt.nz/service/yes/resources/road/pdfs/helping-hands-publ1062.pdf
Road Safety
http://www.gw.govt.nz/safe2school/
Risk and Children
http://www.englishoutdoorcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Nothing-Ventured.pdf
http://social-pedagogy.co.uk/downloads/Eichsteller%20&%20Holthoff%20-%20Risk%20Competence.pdf
http://www.freeplaynetwork.org.uk/pubs/risk.pdf
Playgrounds
http://www.activelivingresearch.org/files/ALR_Brief_SafePlaygrounds.pdf
http://www.playengland.org.uk/news/2011/02/local-playground-campaign-highlights-the-need-for-outdoor-play
http://www.playengland.org.uk/media/340836/supporting_school_improvement_through_play.pdf
Volunteers
http://www.sparc.org.nz/en-nz/communities-and-clubs/Volunteers-The-Heart-of-Sport/
Student Leadership
http://www.sparc.org.nz/en-nz/young-people/Growing-Leaders/
Coaching
Coaching Generation Y PDF Download
http://www.centre4activeliving.ca/publications/wellspring/2011/jun-literacy.pdf
http://www.sportscoachuk.org/sites/default/files/Coaching%20Children%20Curriculum.pdf
http://www.sirc.ca/newsletters/mid-Sept11/documents/Free/kids.pdf
