Bournemouth SGO Area

This year's Summer Reading Challenge has a physical activity theme and is called 'Ready, Set, Read!'. It is games, play and sport related with an emphasis on keeping minds and bodies active over the holiday.

We're excited to announce that Youth Sport Trust annual National School Sports Week campaign is back for 2023, running from Monday 19 to Sunday 25 June. This year, it's partnering with Sports Direct to encourage kids all over the UK to "play for fun, play for 60" and make sure they get the Chief Medical Officer's recommended minimum of 60 minutes of physical activity every day.

The National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) measures the height and weight of children in Reception class (aged 4 to 5) and year 6 (aged 10 to 11), to assess overweight and obesity levels in children within primary schools.

Here you will find lots of support for you as teachers or school staff to review and improve your inclusive physical education and school sport delivery. It is all made possible through the Department of Education funded, Inclusion 2024 project.

Run Bournemouth Festival

In Bournemouth as a legacy of the Birmingham Commonwealth Games in 2022, there are Commonwealth trails at 5 different sites around the town.

This week see's the publication from the World Health Organisation of the Promoting Physical Activity through School's paper.

The YST have launched a new ‘state of the nation’ report on PE, school sport and physical activity to help families and schools understand the importance of supporting children to move more.

The increase in child obesity prevalence in 2020 to 2021 is the largest increase recorded in the NCMP since the programme began in 2006 to 2007. The headline figures were published by NHS Digital in November 2021. In the new report published today, we focus on the recent increases in obesity and severe obesity prevalence and examine how the increases vary between different population groups.

The School Games Mark window is now open for applications. Application window- 4th May- 27th July 2022

The UK is facing a ‘new pandemic’ of loneliness, rising mental health needs and childhood inactivity. In a bid to get more young people to have fun doing sport and find their place within it, we are asking teachers, parents, and organisations across the UK to sign up for National School Sport Week, 20-26 June.

We know that physical activity contributes to physical health, mental and social wellbeing, and life-skill development but it has wider benefits.

Registrations for National School Sport Week 2022 on 20-26 June, are now open.

In 2022 the Commonwealth Games are being hosted by Birmingham. To help spread the message about the Games and promote the importance of physical activity for young people we have created a Commonwealth Games School Celebration Pack.

The following findings were presented as part of our 2021 Impact Report - published in February 2022. A full version of the report is available for download on this page.

Schools involved in the Inclusive Sports Programme will be able to deliver a series of inclusive programmes and festivals that are inspired by the Winter Paralympic and Commonwealth Games

The UEFA Women’s EURO 2022 Schools Programme provides teachers with access to a range of free, digital resources to help build excitement amongst pupils in the leadup to the tournament.

Here is some information on a new initiative that has been launched to help school teachers inspire the next generation of handball stars and encourage thousands more youngsters to take up the sport. England Handball has launched the new, completely free, Teach Handball hub – a one-stop shop for everything teachers need to know about the sport including basic equipment, rules, FAQs, training opportunities and more.

The week of live free content will highlight the importance of SEND inclusion within schools with sessions from a specialist school, an interactive immersive digital stories experience, sharing of good practice within the education setting and an exciting youth voice panel discussion.

Now that we beginning a New Year it is important to know where we are in relation to the activity levels in children and young people. This is demonstrated by the recent Active Lives survey, details below.

What are these sessions? These sessions are for 6-12 year olds who would like to learn various cycling skills in a safe and enjoyable environment. Our main aim is for your children to have fun riding bikes! They will happen all year round in most weather conditions.

Introducing this years summer holiday physical activity initiative for Bournemouth Primary Schools called 'Tour de Park'.

New safeguarding in sport animation A new animation launched by the NSPCC Child Protection in Sport Unit (CPSU) is helping more people to understand what child protection and safeguarding mean in a sports setting.

A new Active Recovery Hub is launching to provide schools, local authorities, and families with easy access to free resources to get children moving before, during and after the school day.

If you think that you can rhyme, And get your words down line by line, We need your help with MOVE IT WEEK, And want to see your poetry technique, So write your poem and send it in, And you might be the one to win.

The Dorset Virtual Leadership Academy consists of a wide selection of pre-recorded workshops covering a variety of topics to provide training to young people on their leadership journey. The leadership academy offers a range of training to primary, middle, secondary and special schools and demonstrates the importance of developing young people to become the workforce of the future.

For one week only Bournemouth will be taking on the School Games area of North Dorset in the 'North V South' Koboca Challenge. To see who is the greatest!

A School Games colleague in Solihull has written a children's book focusing on the 'Spirit of the Games' values which may help with World Book day (March 4th) so I thought I would share it with you.

We are getting back to some inter school competition in Bournemouth with some virtual challenges via the platform Koboca.

Do you want to see how your 3km time matches up against other schools from Bournemouth? Compete against students from schools in a virtual 3km race!

The Healthy Movers programme from the Youth Sports Trust is suitable for KS1 children and young siblings at home.

Busy Builders Activity Pack for KS1 children to build and move.

Introducing a new resource designed by the Youth Sport Trust. To help young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities stay active at home.

Step into Sport Youth Leadership Camps focus on the development of leadership skills in young people, with an increased emphasis on further training and deployment opportunities in workforce specific roles. There are two delivery approaches for Step into Sport this year. Please find summaries of the approaches below along with links to all the content and support material you will need. You can choose between the two or deliver both if you see the benefit. In Dorset we have a clear objective of making sure those who complete the programme have opportunities once they have completed the courses. This might be through leading in your own school, within the School Games or by linking into community clubs and volunteering. Please keep us informed when leaders have completed the training. The options are outlined below:

Many green spaces in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council (BCP) area are mapped with orienteering routes. Orienteering is an outdoor activity where the aim is to navigate between markings called control points marked on a map.

I have put together this 'Be my best' festival which is designed to help children to set personal bests in different activities and then try to beat their scores.

The bucket list is an ideal way to keep children active and also thinking about activity and health whilst they're off school during the current lock-down.

A series of PE resources available for primary, secondary and young people with SEND.

Need some ideas of how to stay active at home? Why not check out Active Dorset's directory of isolation activities.

The Youth Sport Trust After School Sport Club was created to help all young people feel part of a club while many schools are shut and youth sport is on hold. Focusing on much more than physical fitness, the club will help children develop physical literacy and the confidence to try new sports.

Dorset School Games are working with Dan the Skipping Man® this year to get everyone active and participating in skipping.

Active Kids Do Better is a brilliant website to help with fit breaks at school (or at home), give ideas for playground games and for family resources.

Using the idea of RED January (Formerly Run Every Day) I have put together some resources to try and encourage students to do some activity every day called Ready Exercise Daily.

I have news of an exciting project for primary and secondary schools in the BCP (Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole) area.

This is a short self-review tool on the School Games website

The School Games Mark criteria has been released for 20-21.

A national event is taking place on 11th December the School Games Santa Dash. The general idea is to just have festive fun, get the children active and involved emphasising the importance of being active.

Details of a Virtual Rugby League Skills Festival .

A variation of the Pentathlon activity for KS1 children.

Next on the virtual calendar is the Cross Country event.

AFC Bournemouth brings you a series of activity cards to help develop your football skills with a set of activities and drills in a fun safe environment.

Move in 7 ways in 7 days. It is basically a physical activity log and we are encouraging children to try and do a different type of physical activity each day of the half term holiday.

At the current time I think it is important to recognise that we are trying to work towards restoring the children's wellbeing. PE & Sport plays a large part of this but it is important to incorporate other areas.

Primary Leadership Academies have take two different approaches to usual this year. They are either being delivered in house by staff with our training pack or I am visiting schools to teach the skills directly. Either way we are ensuring the leadership and training opportunities are still on offer across Bournemouth.

Our first virtual competition was the Pentathlon.

Two virtual festival packs in Gymnastics & Football Fitness for you to use in PE lessons, extra curricular clubs or at home.

The Schools Games has been in operation since 2006 and has evolved from a since multi sport event to a national programme made up of 450 School Games Organisers

Stay active during the summer holidays by trying some of the activities available in Bournemouth