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The Aim of Active Schools

 

The fundamental aim of Active Schools is to offer children and young people the opportunities and motivation to adopt active, healthy lifestyles, now and into adulthood.  Active Schools Managers and Coordinators are responsible for developing and supporting an infrastructure for Active Schools within the school and wider community.  We do this by recruiting, supporting and sustaining a network of volunteers, coaches, leaders and teachers who in turn deliver physical activity and sport before, during and after school and in the wider community.   

 

An image of the Active Schools Logo

Our Key Outcomes

  • To continue to increase opportunities for all children and young people to be engaged in physical activity and sport.

  • To strengthen pathways to participation and performance through sustainable school to community links.

 

Delivery

This will be delivered by:

 

  1. Embedding the effective integration, planning, management and delivery of Active Schools within the local authority. 

  2. Building a sustainable volunteer network and providing an appropriate volunteering infrastructure for Active Schools within the school and wider community. 

  3. Providing opportunities for all children and young people to participate in physical activity & sport and enabling the creation of pathways from the school to the wider community.

  4. Increasing participation amongst “hard to reach groups” by adopting a targeted approach towards:

 

  •            Girls and young women

  •            Children and young people with a disability

  •            Children and young people in areas of socio-economic disadvantage

  •            Children and young people not currently involved in physical activity and sport

 

 

Partnerships

National partnerships have been forged with a number of agencies involved in the related fields of physical activity and health; e.g. sportscotland, Youth Sport Trust, YDance, Sports Leaders UK, NHS Health Scotland and Clubgolf and are essential in the development of active Schools going forward. We can often access funding and resources through our partners to aid both our delivery network and the wide variety of activity initiatives we organise and drive forward e.g. dance, firstclubgolf, playground developments, TOPs, Sports Leaders.

 

Strong partnerships also exist with a variety of local agencies and Council Departments including: Sports Development, Outdoor Education, Health Development, The Tullochan Trust, West Dunbartonshire's Council for Voluntary Services and The Environmental Trust.

 

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