Children spend approximately 25 per cent of the school day in theplayground and research has highlighted that young people often feelisolated, bullied and socially excluded at break times.
Introducing a range of physical activities into your break times offers:opportunities to counteract many of the social and behavioural problemsencountered by young people at these times; provides opportunities foryoung people to engage in a physically active and thus healthylifestyle; offers opportunities to explore new activity and enjoyout-of-school hours learning/study support activity; motivates youngpeople to re-engage with school; provides opportunities for young peopleto become activity leaders; and empowers young people to develop theirown activities and make informed choices.
A number of programmes and resources have been developed to encourageparticipation in sport and physical activity at play times. To find outmore about these programmes speak to your local school sport partnershipdevelopment manager.
HOW CAN PE AND SPORT CONTRIBUTE TO THE EXTENDED SERVICES AGENDA?
The varied menu of study support activities is perhaps where PE andsport has the most to offer through the work of School SportPartnerships (SSPs).With the support of the Big Lottery Fund, SSPs aredeveloping a wide range of physical activities for young people fromtraditional team sports to cheerleading and kite flying.
They also work to develop opportunities for young leaders to supportsuch delivery. Contributions to other parts of the core offer includeopening up the school facilities to sports clubs and other communitygroups, and family learning opportunities such as lads and dads or mumsand daughters sessions.
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