Estimated Price

£1,000

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Summary

We wish to improve the physical and mental health and well-being of the children at St. Johns PS by increasing the amount of time they spend engaging in extracurricular physical activity. We will fund the purchase of new sports equipment for the various lunchtime & after school clubs that run in conjunction with Active Schools Volunteers. We will use the funds to promote wider achievements and allow the children to take part in sporting events out with school.

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Description

We wish to continue with the success of our lunchtime & afterschool clubs. The funds would allow us to pay for transport to take the pupils attending those clubs to upcoming tournaments and events that are organised by North Ayrshire Active Schools. We would add to our existing sports kit to allow the children to be identified and part of the team. We have Young Sports Leaders who have responsibility for promoting physical activity in the playground. Primary 7 undertook training in playground games and have requested playground equipment to fully engage all the children in the school. Some of the fund would be used to purchase this equipment. We will work closely with North Ayrshire’s Active Schools Coordinator to successfully deliver lunchtime clubs, which will run each day for the rest of the academic year. Physical and mental health and wellbeing is always at the heart of St. Johns PS agenda. Afterschool sports clubs are an excellent way to engage children in physical activity and improve their health and mental well-being. Exposing children to sports and physical activity in an afterschool environment encourages them to explore the sport in the community and strengthens the pathways into the sport. It is hoped that the afterschool clubs will encourage more children to participate in sport and thus increase their physical fitness. Due to the cost-of-living crisis, after school clubs are the only opportunity that some children have to participate in sports. Through this fund we wish to improve aspects of fitness and develop personal and interpersonal skills and attributes. We want to enable learners to develop the concepts and skills necessary for participation in a wide range of physical activity, sport and outdoor learning and enhance their physical wellbeing in preparation for leading a fulfilling, active and healthy lifestyle. The school’s Young Sports Leaders (Primary 6 and 7 pupils) are involved in this application through providing their opinion on the after-school clubs they wish to have established. The have selected the equipment needed for their lunchtime ‘Playground Games’ club.

Sports equipment - £500

School sports kit - £200

Buses to sporting events - £300

TOTAL - £1000