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About Activation

Active Schools

To build a culture of activity into a community an important target is the young people of the community and the key to the success of this is to work with schools in Upper Hutt to increase participation in physical activity by facilitating and promoting a range of opportunities along the continuum from exploration to excellence.

The School Activator will assist the schools to increase physical activity by:

promoting physical activity
assisting schools with sport and physical activity events and programmes
provide advice and monitoring information to schools

2010 Workshops

Pencil these into your diary now!

Zone GET SET GO

Get trained and become familiar with the Zones Get Set Go Resource Manual which is key to delivering good events. Key resource to School Sports Co-ordinators or anyone who organises sports events in your school or zone.

Facilitated by	Candice Apelu & Georgina Duindam
Date	Wednesday 24th February 2010
Time	9.30am - 3.30pm
Venue	TBC
Cost	$60 + GST (past or present Active Schools) $80 + GST (non Active School) NB: All Active Schools can utilise their TPF Funding

Physical Activity Leaders (PALs) Workshop

This workshop will develop practical ideas for implementing physical activity in your schools and classrooms, as well as training and developing young leaders to lead games and activities.

Facilitated by	Candice Apelu & Georgina Duindam
Date	Wednesday 10th March 2010
Time	9.30am - 3.30pm
Venue	TBC
Cost	$60 + GST (past or present Active Schools) $80 + GST (non Active School) NB: All Active Schools can utilise their TPF Funding

Junior Teachers Early Years Fundamentals

This workshop is designed for Junior Teachers (NE - Y3) who want to know how to teach young children the key Fundamental Movement Skills in Junior School. Find out what equipment you can use, where to start when teaching the Fundamentals and what to look out for with children's development of their skills.
This afternoon will look at transitioning into the Fundamental Movement Skills Resource.

Facilitated by	Rachel Spriggins & Georgina Duindam
Date:	Wednesday 24th March 2010
Time:	9.30am - 3.30pm
Venue:	TBC
Cost:	$60 + GST (past or present Active Schools) $80 + GST (non Active School) NB: All Active Schools can utilise their TPF Funding

Upper Valley Primary School Sports Association
Events for 2010

Chairperson - Andrew Herrick (Totara Park School) andrew.herrick@totarapark.school.nz

Term 1	Cricket (starts week 5 for 6 wks)	4th Mar	TMP
	Danish Rounder	2nd Mar	TMP
	Swimming	25th Mar	H2O Xtream
Term 2	Hockey	4th May	Fraser Park
	Cross Country	23rd May	Harcourt Park
	Netball/Basketball	15th Jun	Walter Nash
Term 3	Rugby	3rd Aug	TMP
	Soccer	24th Aug	TMP
	Multi-Sport	16th Sep	Petone Indoor
Term 4	Touch	26th Oct	TMP
Term 4	Athletics	9th Nov	Maidstone

Secondary Schools Practical Recreation Project 2010

The 2010 practical recreation programme is kicking off in the first week of school! This project runs alongside the physical education department in Heretaunga College. It offers a number of students the chance to learn some fresh and exciting work skills while still attending school and remaining in the school environment. The pathway demonstrates the possibilities for careers in this sector.

The course runs for one full day per fortnight, and is supplemented by blocks of time required to fulfill some aspects of the course such as obtaining a first aid certificate and the completion of volunteer hours. The emphasis is on how the community can support a healthy lifestyle by showcasing the resources that the city has to encourage participation and increase knowledge.

This course fills a current gap in the sector which struggles to attract and retain suitable employees. It also leverage off community group and organisation experiences in the recreation and health sector, taking advantage of Upper Hutt community strengths.

Aim:
To provide practical experiences for traditionally non-academic learners in secondary schools which extend their knowledge and skills in the recreation and health sector whilst encouraging them to remain in the school environment.

Objectives:

-	Provide an opportunity for students to sample practical experiences in the recreation industry and gain knowledge about healthy lifestyle’s through demonstration in real life scenarios while enabling them to remain in the school environment.
-	Provide students with tools, to use in the future in their own communities, to foster and promote healthy lifestyles and physical activity to others.
-	Students gain a set of useful work qualifications including first aid, life guarding, event management, basic nutrition, as well as gaining work experience.
-	Students attend secondary school longer, are more engaged, and attitudes and academic progress in other subject areas are enhanced.
-	Transition into further education, training or the workforce for students upon completion of this course.
-	Sports and Recreation community group collaboration to provide an effective course for enhancement of the sector through investment in potential future employees.
-	Expansion of the hybrid in-schools programmes to improve work readiness.

Role Model Visits

Once again in 2010 we have a series of high achieving young sportspeople that will be available to come out to primary schools at the end of term 1 and present to your schools. This is a great opportunity to have a motivational and inspirational person to touch base with your students and provide them with a desire to participate and excel in their own sports. Timetables will be sent out shortly to book in your roll model visits. For 2010 our roll models are:

Jessica Grinlington – Netball
Krystal Crown – Touch Rugby
Nike Thompson – Skating
Mary Fisher – Swimming
Ashley Johnston – Softball
Heu Sina – Singing/Performing

The Activator

This newsletter comes out twice a term to schools with information about what is happening across the Upper Valley zone, around Upper Hutt and the region for schools and students in regards to physical activity, sports and health initiatives. It is a great source of information for students, teachers and parents alike.

If you would like to subscribe please send your email contact to: mike.mercer@uhcc.govt.nz

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!

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.

Active Transport

St Josephs Primary School is charging ahead with their active transport travel plan for the school. A couple of exciting initiatives are underway that will make a big difference to how the students get to school both increasing physical activity and health of students, reducing parking issues before and after school and bringing many extended benefits such as; new chances for students to socialise, higher levels of attentiveness in the class and a new mechanism for achievement for all students.

A graduated rewards scheme is the cornerstone of this process, encouraging students to walk and cycle to school. This scheme is based on a gold, silver and bronze award levels and at each level students must show their commitment to active transport to school. In addition to the rewards scheme, cycle and walk maps are being developed to show some of the best ways to the school and will be available for students and parents to go over, a cycle safety course is being investigated to give students a basic outline of road safety – increasing confidence to ride to school and a car pooling initiative is underway with keen parents. Working closely with Greater Wellington Regional Council and Activation at Upper Hutt City Council, these initiatives are set to kick off in term three.

In addition Birchville schol has started their School Travel Plan Process, Plateau School is currently forming a series of initiatives for their community, and Maoribank school is organising a walking to school promotion day for September which will involve students painting footprints onto the sidewalk! It seems as if the Upper Hutt school community has taken up the challange of active transport and is racing ahead with these environmentally friendly and healthy activities.

School travel plans are available for any school in Upper Hutt to sign onto – Birchville is the next school in line so listen out for other exciting active transport initiatives that come out of their neck of the woods!

Fitness Clubs

Activation is currently supporting the functioning and development of before school fitness clubs in Primary schools and their communities around Upper Hutt.

Schools fitness clubs focus on running and walking programmes or physical activity to get more children and parents, more active, more often. It generally runs once to twice a week before schools and it relies on the support of parents to function. It is a fun and easy way to get active and be involved in the school community. Children are also encouraged to bring a healthy breakfast to eat after the session.

Some findings from other schools: