PULSE Active Lives: Children and Young People Survey


What is the Active Lives Survey?


The Active Lives: Children and Young People Survey was created by Sport England in 2017 in order to better understand children’s attitudes and behaviours around sport and activity. The online survey is undertaken by school pupils aged 5-16 years old, from randomly selected classes and year groups within randomly selected schools across the country. This gives a more representative view of the children and young people (CYP) across the nation, with over 130,000 pupil responses in the first year.


What are the benefits to schools?


Each school which is selected to take part, and completes at least 30 pupil surveys, will receive a bespoke school report from Sport England. This report covers measures of children’s activity levels, physical literacy, swimming proficiency, wellbeing, self-efficacy and levels of social trust. The reports give staff evidence and insight into how their school is performing in terms of engaging its pupils in sport and physical activity. These are not published or used to compare schools but are purely designed for the benefit of the individual school and can be used as evidence for Ofsted.


As a small token of appreciation, schools who are selected and choose to take part will also receive 10 sports equipment vouchers from ESPO, worth at least £100 as a base incentive if your school fully completes a minimum of 30 pupil surveys. Schools will also be sent parent survey links to support the key stage 1 pupils’ responses, and the school will receive an additional five sports equipment vouchers for every five parents completing the survey.


What are the key findings so far from the Active Lives Participation and Attitudes Reports?


The 2017/18 academic year reports were published in March 2019. The first year’s report highlighted the following key findings:


 43% of children lead active lives, averaging 60mins of activity per day across a week.


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WELLBEING, RESILIENCE AND TRUST Feelings of happiness


How happy did you feel yesterday? (years 3-6 only)


6.6 0 2 4 6 8 10


Means scores from answers given on a scale of 0-10, where 0 is low and 10 is high


Pupils were asked how much they agree with the statement:


Total


If I find something difficult, I keep trying until I can do it”


Those who agree or strongly agree have positive self efficacy


Trust: Overall and for boys and girls (years 3-6 only)


Pupils were asked:


10% 24% 66% How do you feel


today? (years 1-2 only)


How much do you feel you can trust people who are a similar age to you?”


Those who answer trust them a lot, or trust them a bit have positive levels of social trust


key findings Total


Boys Girls


Boys Girls


Resilience: Overall and for boys and girls (years 3-6 only)


Positive perceived self efficacy


83%


80% 85%


Positive perceived social trust


88%


89% 86%


School name, sample size, year groups included, survey name should be mentioned on every slide as individual slides may be detached from overall presentation by some schools or used by people who have not read note pages. Warnings about data interpretation also to be included.


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Children and young people’s attitudes to sport and physical activity are key to understanding their levels of activity, mental wellbeing, resilience and social trust.


33% of children do less than 30mins of activity a week.


the report has five key findings: 1


Physically literate children and young people are more likely to be active


Physical literacy has five elements – enjoyment, confidence, competence, understanding and knowledge. The more elements present, the more active a child or young person is likely to be.


 Children and young people who are more active are happier than those who are least active.


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 There is a positive association between all mental wellbeing measures and volunteering.


 Those from the least affluent families are less likely to be active and volunteer than those from more affluent families.


 More than double the number of CYP from the most affluent families can swim 25 metres unaided compared to those from the least affluent families.


 There is no real difference in levels of activity by CYP with and without a disability.


 Physically literate children and young people are more likely to be active.


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Enjoyment is the biggest driver of activity.


Physically literate children and young people are happier, more resilient and more trusting of other children and young people.


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There are more important inequalities that must be tackled (i.e. girls and those from less affluent families are less likely to enjoy being active).


 Physical literacy declines with age.


Enjoyment is the biggest driver of activity


While all of the reported attitudes make a difference, enjoying sport and physical activity makes the biggest difference to activity levels.


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Physically literate children and young people are happier, more resilient and more trusting of other children and young people


The more elements of physical literacy present, the higher the levels of happiness, resilience and social trust.


Physical literacy declines with age


As children and young people grow older, they report lower levels of enjoyment, confidence, competence and understanding.


There are important inequalities that must be tackled


Girls and those from less affluent families are less likely to enjoy being active.


These findings will be used to inform a new attitudes-led market segmentation of children and young people. More details on our next steps can be found on page 26.


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How could PE & Sport help increase the overall wellbeing of your students?


TEMPLATE: DUMMY DATA


HAVE YOU CONSIDERED?


Physical literacy is an important part of the growth and personal development of children and young people, and therefore should be promoted and maintained from an early age.


What do schools need to do if they have been selected?


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The school will be contacted by Kent Sport or their School Games Organiser to let them know they have been selected.


The schools will have to confirm their interest in taking part and will be asked provide a list of classes in three different selected year groups.


 Schools will be given the survey links for three of the randomly selected classes and the short 20 minute surveys will be carried out by pupils during school time.


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 One teacher, ideally a PE lead teacher, should complete a survey on behalf of the school.


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To read or download the full findings of the 2017/18 academic year report on levels of participation please visit: https://www.sportengland.org/ media/13698/active-lives-children- survey-academic-year-17-18.pdf


To read or download the full findings of the 2017/18 academic year report on attitudes towards physical activity please visit: www.sportengland.org/ cypattitudes


What does physical literacy mean?


According to the International Physical Literacy Association, the five attitudes that make a person physically literate are:


 Competence- Finding sport easy.


 Confidence- Feeling confident when taking part.


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Enjoyment- Having an enjoyable experience taking part.


Understanding- Understanding why taking part is beneficial.


Knowledge- Knowing how to get involved or improve.


Template letters to send out to parents, as well as information sheets for teachers, will be provided to the school.


 Where key stage 1 pupils have been selected, parents have the opportunity to complete an online survey regarding their child.


 Providing schools meet the minimum requirements of the survey (30 completed pupil surveys) the school will then be contacted at the end of term: by Sport England with their bespoke school report; and by ESPO with their equipment vouchers.


Can a school take part even if they haven’t been selected?


The survey can be completed by schools voluntarily if they inform Kent Sport of their interest in taking part. They would be ineligible to receive the equipment vouchers from ESPO, but they would still receive a school report from Sport England, providing that they fully complete a minimum of 30 pupil surveys, and they agree to take part in the survey if and when they are selected in the future.


If you have any questions regarding the Active Lives Survey please visit Kent Sport’s website: https://www.kentsport.org/make-sport-happen/sport-englands-active-lives-children-young-people-report/ Alternatively, please contact Louise Milne, Active Partnership Manager at Kent Sport: Louise.milne@kent.gov.uk


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