SCHOOL - Stokeswood Primary School

INSPIRATION- My Personal Best

PARTICIPANTS

Year 4 x61 children in total - 30 girls and 31 boys

OVERVIEW

Two classes of Year 4 children where targeted for this challenge. The challenges was introduced in hope to engage and encourage participation during the sessions and for the children to part take in, and improve, at a level that they were comfortable with. Building resilience within this cohort was identified as an area of development. In addition, to developing their resilience, we hoped the challenges would support them to improve their confidence, team work and working towards objectives and goals.

IMPACT

The children have become more actively engaged in PE and their attitudes have improved • There has been a rise in confidence – the children have started to contribute more to the sessions, additionally, in other areas of PE. • Children appear more happy – willing to engage and participation has improved. • Friendship building – Children are more will to work with others within the class that they would have felt reluctant to do so prior to the activities that were introduced. • Resilience amongst the children had increased. The children are more accepting to a loss and have a greater desire to attempt the activity again. • Improved social and team working skills – by interacting their peers and cooperating to achieve their goals, the children have strengthened these areas. • Increase in motivation – the children were seeing the results of their hard work.

QUOTES:

Participant-

"On my first attempt of star jumps I got 25 and the next time, I got 34. I'm so proud of myself" "i kept improving my scores each time, it feels amazing! I enjoying helping my friends doing the same".

PE coach "The children have made remarkable progress while undertaking these challenges. The resources provided facilitated the children with the tools to challenge themselves and reach new goals. Not only have the children improved their personal best, they have developed their confidence and self belief. The challenges has positively impacted the children's development.

They have become an inspiration, not only to me, but to their peers".

SCHOOL - St Mary's Primary School

INSPIRATION- My Personal Best

We opened the challenge up to all pupils, we also had the year 5 and 6s involved in the organize and running of the activities. we encouraged all inactive Pupils to have go.

PARTICIPANTS - Age 5 - 11 x 100 participants

OVERVIEW- It went well, it gave the children something to take part in during lunchtimes, especially the children who find friendship groups difficult. everyone felt included.

IMPACT-

The older Children felt included in the organizing which increased their CONFIDENCE and have come up with some good ideas to get more children involved going forwards.

Music can be a great way of motivating you when you are learning a new skill, you can find some great skipping resources on the Daily Boost webpage

Listening to an upbeat tune can help you to get started, keep you going and achieve your goal.

Remember you can accumulate your active minutes throughout the day to achieve your 30 minutes, so check out the Daily Boost webpage for some more videos/ideas and try the Mini Boost resources if you are short of time.

You can also find some Useful Apps that are great to watch and follow along.

This Summer Term we will be celebrating the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paris Paralympic Games to Inspire young people to be more active. The FREE 'Get Set' programme offers the opportunity for school children and families to embark on a virtual journey to Paris. Participants will travel in teams created by teachers, parents or group leaders, who will first need to register with 'Get Set' (Get Set | Get Set Path To Paris).

Young people can then get active both at home, at school and within their communities. There are resources and prizes available along the way.

Path to Paris is a programme for schools, families and local communities designed to help children and their families to get active together, try new things and most importantly: have fun. It's all about team spirit and building a habit of physical activity. Path to Paris uses the inspiration of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, to challenge children across the country to virtually travel to Paris by getting active. By taking part, children will grow in confidence and learn vital skills, such as teamwork and resilience.

Teachers, group leaders and families can create teams, children will log their physical activity on the Path to Paris website and each active minute will translate into virtual kilometres powering their team around the world. Path to Paris is all about getting active at home, in school, at a local sport or community group, everyone is invited to get active together and embark on the Path to Paris. Starting from Athens, the birthplace of the modern Olympic Games, children will get active and virtually travel kilometres to power their team bus around the world. There are lots of opportunities to win amazing prizes along the way!

The final stretch will take teams through Great Britain and Northern Ireland so you can collect Team GB and ParalympicsGB athletes and learn more about them, their sports, and the history of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. With loads of motivational activities and videos, young people will be inspired to get moving to make sure their bus gets to Paris in time!