Sport NZ Physical Literacy Approach Physical literacy is “the motivation, confidence, physical competence, knowledge and understanding required by participants that allows them to value and take responsibility for engaging in physical activity and sport for life”. Margaret Whitehead 2013

Sport New Zealand Young Peoples Plan Critical Success Factors We will equip Young People to have a lifelong love of being physically active by ensuring that:  To ensure young people in New Zealand are physically literate – Physical, Cognitive, Emotional and Social and Spiritual To ensure young people’s experiences are high quality, stage appropriate and enjoyable To ensure young people are positively influenced, encouraged and supported To ensure young people can access quality opportunities To ensure young people can participate and compete to the level of their aspiration To ensure young people are empowered to shape their community sport experience

Our Task We will split into four groups with each group focusing on a cohort of the school population Within these groups you will be responsible for coming up with the following: An Event/s & Management Plan Media Success Criteria What next?

Group 1 – Co-Ed School 350 students. 70% of students fully engaged Group 1 – Co-Ed School 350 students. 70% of students fully engaged. How do we grab the other 30% Group 2 – All boys school 1500 students. Low engagement in activity at lunchtimes. Ideas to stimulate interest. Group 3 – 7 students who are completely disengaged with sport and recreation. What roles can they fulfil within this concept of intraschool sport provision Group 4 – All girls special character school. 300 students. Mass participation opportunity and what happens next.

LUNCHTIME LEADERS Concept Student led activities program that caters for all students Increase the ‘culture of participation’ within schools How TSSSA to initiate a Student Leadership group within each school and provide leadership opportunities for the group Work with group to research needs of their peers Establish a program of events that runs for a 6 week block each term MARKETING! Funding Kiwisport – each school has a $2500 budget to spend on activities to increase the culture of participation Success Measured through student engagement, not numbers participating

It started off slowly…… 3 senior girls instructing and their mates…. A couple of the juniors joined in….

Their mates got involved…

In 10 minutes this activity went from 8 people participating and around 15 watching to over 100 participating and 150 watching If you weren’t involved you became the odd one out!

What next In isolation that event would have meant nothing The leadership group used events like this to keep students interested throughout the program and also to associate cool things that happen at lunchtime with them To date they have run: Aerobics, Zorb Balls, Pilates, Indoor Bowls, Fast 5 Netball, Turbo Touch, Bootcamp and Boxfit Every event has been free for students to take part Every school has given positive feedback around student involvement, be that as an organiser, supporter or participant. Students are inquiring as to when the next activity will take place

Key Learnings to date Programs have worked best in schools that have staff actively working with the leadership group The leadership group need to meet every week to stay on task & have key members assign specific roles Leadership group needs a lot of help with marketing! The very best examples have linked into wider school goals – ie. Greater engagement in classtime after interval etc No school has yet to spend their full budget

Modified Sport Week & The McKean Shield Concept Completely different offering of sport was needed: More Social – Music, BBQ, Fun games between matches, teacher teams No entry cost Take the focus off winning – games are still competitive but winning the competition is not the outcome of participation Continuous play throughout the day with small breaks between games Round robin format – teams regrouped after 3 games More opportunity for ‘like – skilled’ matches Teams of 5 Games are self officiated

McKean Shield Our version of the Ranfurly Shield A school that holds the Shield must try to defend it throughout the day All teams from a school must defend the shield before the same team can have a second go at defending it – ensures that not only the ‘top teams’ get to play for the shield If you can successfully defend the shield 10 times or more your school name on the shield

Strongest person competition House competition All ages and different categories for each grade Each activity was available twice a week 5 events in total Top five students in each category were given bonus points Anyone who attempted it got a point Trophies were made and given out to the top male and female in each category

Events Monkey bar swing Medicine ball throw Rope climb Sled Pull Prone hold

What surprised me Participation in the event – 114 students took part in the event 78 students took part in all 5 events In that year participation in sport increased to 85% In 2011 we didn’t run the event and the students had a go at me Computers room usage dropped to about 10 students on average at lunch time

What would I do differently Have more help from other staff????????? Run more events through out the year Tie things to house points Ask students for input