1. What is Being Healthy within UK Primary School setting
What is Being Healthy within UK Primary School setting? Dr Kristy Howells
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2. Introduction
Every Child Matters (ECM) agenda (DfES, 2003) – one of 5 outcomes was ‘Being Healthy’ linked to National Curriculum (NC) (DfE, 1999) ‘knowledge and understanding of fitness and health
NC (DfEE, 1999) – “how important it is to be active”

3. Why Primary School Setting is important?
Pearce et al. (2008) - “physical activity patterns established in childhood continue into adulthood”. (p.169)
NC (DfEE, 2014) ‘lead healthy, active lives’

4. Measuring Being Healthy?
Success indicator of Be Healthy outcome was reduction in under 11s obesity levels.
National Child Measurement Programme
1/5 of 4 – 5yr olds and 1/3 yr 10 and 11 yr olds.
BMI!
Physical Activity – ‘sustained physical activity’ (DfEE, 2014)

5. The Children Volunteered 10 girls, 10 boys.
School set in SE England, rural Church of England school.
Class teachers were PE specialist.
Day includes: 236 mins curriculum time, 20 min morning break, 60 mins lunch break and 15 mins afternoon break (only for infants)
2 x 40 minute PE lessons per week.

6. Data Collection 60 second cycle time sampling interval
ActiGraph accelerometers
Measure activity volume – frequency, intensity and duration. (METs) (McClain and Tudor-Locke, 2009)
Worn in a pouch around the waist (Welk, 2002) – preferred site.
60 second cycle time sampling interval

7. Pilot Study ‘To store our leaves’ ‘To record our PA for you’
‘Because it is new’
Photo Credits – Star Jumps –
Dry leaves –
Ribbons – homerton.cambs.sch.uk

8. Overall PE vs Non PE days

9. Overall results for gender and age
Gender \ Day Type PE
Non PE
Infant Boys
53 ± 22
(88%)
46 ± 17
(77%)
Infant Girls
42 ± 13
(70%)
38 ± 11
(63%)
Junior Boys
60 ± 13
(100%)
45 ± 12
(75%)
Junior Girls
53 ± 13
(88%)
40 ± 13
(67%)
Overall mean number of minutes ± SD of MVPA during school day for gender and type of day

10. Why?! ‘I needed a rest’ ‘I want to have a sit down’
‘Time to think about what we did’
‘I don’t want to run around anymore’

11. Discussion Surprising what is actually possible.
Being healthy can be examined in more ways than just BMI and needs to be examined in easy ways such as PA, even though PA is not a simple single behaviour (Smith, 2010).
It is important to know what is happening within own setting as schools can be that place to develop lifelong habits in PA (Howells, 2012).

12. Playground enhancement

13. Questions
Are there any questions?