Sporting Initiatives - SPORT ENGLAND

Active Mark and Active Mark Gold

Rewarding quality in physical activity

The Activemark and the Activemark Gold awards scheme offers your school the chance to achieve recognition for its commitment to promoting the benefits of physical activity. The awards are open to primary schools, middle schools deemed primary schools and special schools with primary aged pupils.

To achieve an award, your school must:

• Offer a broad and balanced physical education programme
• Provide an environment that encourages physical activities
• Teach children the importance of staying active for life.

The benefits

Achieving an Activemark or an Activemark Gold award benefits your school in numerous important ways

• Supports the development of your PE curriculum and physical activity programmes.
• Identifies your strengths and weaknesses
• Promotes your school to the wider community
• Raises the profile of physical activity

Who can apply?

Activemark recognises schools with:

• Effective policies and practices for providing a broad, balanced physical education programme
• Realistic physical education and physical activity development plans
• Enhanced curricular provision through some additional opportunities for physical activity
• An effective inclusion policy for disabled pupils

Activemark Gold recognises schools with:

• All the above policies and practices in place, plus
• Realistic, in-depth physical education and physical activity development plans
• A commitment to providing a range of additional, high quality opportunities for physical activity.

In each of the ten Sport England regions there will be Sport England Active Schools officers working with local education authorities and sports development officers to ensure there is adequate support.

If you would like an Activemark/Activemark Gold application pack, please contact:

Sport England Publications Despatch, P.O.Box 255,Wetherby LS23 7LZ

Website: www.sportengland.org

 

YOUTH SPORT TRUST

TOP Tots

Helping children aged 18 months to 3 years to experience physical activities and games. TOP Tots is the first stage of our sporting pathway. It provides parents,childminders and nursery staff with a simple resource to introduce physical activity to young children

TOP Start

Encouraging 3 to 5 year olds to learn through physical activity. TOP Start has been designed for use with groups of young children in pre-school settings such as nurseries, play groups and creches.

TOP Play

Supporting 4 to 9 year olds as they acquire and develop core skills. TOP Play combines children’s energy and enthusiasm for fun and activity with the opportunity to develop important sporting skills such as running, jumping and catching.

BT TOP Sport

Providing 7 to 11 year olds with opportunities to develop skills in a range of sports. BT TOP Sport, sponsored by BT, supports teachers and community deliverers as they introduce specific sports and games to young people. It is helping to build a sounf foundation in the following sports:

Basketball	Hockey
Football	Rugby
Netball	Swimming
Squash	Tennis
Table Tennis	Gaelic Football
Cricket	Hurling/Camogie

TOP Athletics & TOP Gymnastics

TOP Outdoors

Medisport Fit for TOPS

Including young disabled people

SportSability –creating opportunities young disabled people to enjoy, participte and perform in PE and Sport. SportSability features specially developed resource cards and equipment for five inclusive games: boccia, goalball, polybat, table cricket and table hockey. These were developed in partnership with the British Boccia Federation, British Blind Sport, Nottingham Trent University and Davies the Sports people.

Website: www.youthsport.net

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This page was last updated on Monday, 14 February, 2005