<p>To support the children&#39;s mental health and well-being we are looking to purchase outdoor equipment to encourage outdoor play. This will have a positive impact physically and mentally for the children and will allow a more fun approach to learning.</p> <p>We would also like to put &pound;150 towards to cost of free school discos for all the children to attend and enjoy.</p>

<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u>Aim </u></b></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">As 4 senior Art and Design pupils, we would like to create and develop a mindfulness art lunch club.&nbsp; We would like to offer this to junior pupils&nbsp;and help create a zen-like lunch group where pupils get to express themselves creatively, as a welcomed break to their busy day. To help them Zen out, we would like to offer a club where pupils can bring their lunch and possibly use art and Design materials to creatively engage in mindful activities, such as ; drawing , painting , character design, fashion design, photography, printmaking and model making.</span></span></p>

<p>Castlepark Primary School Parent Council are applying for funding to support the running of the schools&nbsp;Breakfast Club.</p>

<p>As a Sports Council we would like to support young people in the Irvine Area participate in Sport and Physical Activitiy and increase the number of people who participate in sport.&nbsp; We are a group of 14-17 year old young people who have had some great experiences and opportunties in Sport of our own and we want to help others have this too.&nbsp; We have personally seen that sport can help with our&nbsp;physical, mental, social and emotional wellbeing and we&nbsp;strongly believe that all young people should have the access to physical activity to help improve their own wellbeing.&nbsp; One of the barriers for young people to take part in sport is the access to sports kit and the access to free sport sessions.&nbsp; As a Sports Council we already offer free sessions (in a variety of different activities) but the young children who we see often don&#39;t have a tshirt / shorts etc often miss out or are embarrassed that they don&#39;t have sports clothing and therefore don&#39;t come to clubs.&nbsp; By having sports kit to give out, this will hopefully remove that financial barrier and make sport more accessible for all and allow us to create a sports community with strong representation and identity. The target group for this support would be 12 &amp; 13 year olds in the Irvine area.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p>Throughout lockdowns&nbsp;we have saw an increase in children becoming more comfortable sitting with devices than embracing all things outdoors. We know the huge benefits outdoor learning and play has on their&nbsp;mental health and well-being and introducing this as early as possible is crucial.&nbsp;Following periods of lockdowns we found many of our children struggle to interact&nbsp;and socialise, through outdoor learning/play we have reaped the benefits of not only these barriers reducing but through this they are being shown how the outdoors is benefitting them&nbsp;physically as well as mentally,&nbsp;often giving teachers the opportunty to have informal chats around healthy eating and its importance to them as they grow.&nbsp;&nbsp;Following consultation with our young people, through the pupil focus group, they have asked if they could have some more resources for them to enjoy and learn outdoors with.&nbsp;&nbsp;Following this the parent council&nbsp;purchased some of the &quot;Operation Play Outdoors&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;den building packages. These have had such amazing feedback from all year groups, however in order to provide more outdoor resources we must&nbsp;provide somewhere safe to store future purchases.&nbsp;<br /> &nbsp;</p>