Nicolson Avenue Junior Primary School Pam Peters ACHPER (SA) Health & PE Conference April 2012

1. Nicolson Avenue Junior Primary School Pam Peters ACHPER (SA) Health & PE Conference April 2012

2. Context We are a R-2 Junior Primary School in Whyalla with an enrolment of approximately 200 students. The school has a long standing commitment to Physical Activity across the school including: • PE Week • Daily Physical Activity • Jump Rope Demo Team • PE as NIT Subject • Body Smart Morning • Participatory Sports Day • Premiers Be Active Challenge (100% involvement) • Walk Safely to School Day and • Lunchtime Organised Activities.

3. Three Years Ago • We believed that not all teachers and classes were participating in the ‘daily fitness’ (now known as Daily Physical Activity) program. • Daily Physical Activity at our school is set up with a roster to share areas used by classes to ensure there is enough play area.

4. Baseline Data Decided to begin collecting some baseline data about teacher practices to confirm our early thoughts: A Staff Survey: • Questioning their practices and concerns around the Daily Physical Activity Program. • Asking if they participated in Daily Physical Activity and the perceived activity levels during this time.

5. NAJPS Survey Questions asked: • Which Daily Physical Activities does your class regularly participate in and how would you rate the activity levels of these sessions? • What prevents you from participating in Daily Physical Activity? • Do you participate in these sessions? • What assistance do you need to improve these sessions? • How do you encourage your children to be physically active?

6. Minimal activity Class Participation 1 Not Very Active 2 Fairly Active Level of Activity 3 Very Active 4 Fully Active 5 Activity Yes No 0 1 2 3 4 5 Skipping 8 1 56% 44% - Relays/Games 8 1 12% - - 44% 22% 22% Oval Run 8 1 - - 22% 56% 22% Health Hustle 9 0 8% - 22% 56% 22% - Aerobics 5 4 44% - 12% 34% 12% - Survey Results

7. Survey Results continued • Inhibitors to participation: • Weather • Time constraints (crowded timetable) • NIT • Nothing • Assistance needed: • Ways to improve aerobics • Simple games that need minimal equipment • Active games for reception children

8. Review of data The eat well be active committee examined survey results highlighting major areas of concern • classes not doing aerobics • low student activity levels in aerobics and health hustle • assistance that teachers were asking for

9. Follow up from review of survey • Discussed with whole staff issues around classes not participating in aerobics • Asked teachers that perceived they had higher levels of student activity in aerobics and health hustles to model what they do • Discussed best way to provide assistance for staff to become more confident • Reviewed timetable options

10. Actions • Changed aerobics to whole school event with stations and music provided • Health Hustle revamped to include more exercise moves than dance moves

11. Actions continued Built staff confidence and competence by: • Providing a range of active games that require minimal equipment • Teaching staff how to set up and play these games • The PE NIT teacher taught children many of these games so children had knowledge to assist the teachers • Using Rick to run FMS sessions with individual teachers to demonstrate how these could be built into Daily Physical Activity sessions

12. Review of changes Staff completed another survey at the end of the year with the following results: • Increased staff confidence • Increased levels of student activity • All classes participating in Daily Physical Activity Review using DIAF Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Performance Indicators rubric with all indicators falling between Strategic and Embedded

13. DIAF Rubric

14. Targets • 2010 • Staff have the skills to implement effective Daily Physical Activity sessions • 2011 • all staff will implement the Way2Go and eat well be active programs • there is an increase of 10% of students walking or riding to school

15. Three Years Later • Have had many staff changes • Has been observed that not all classes are participating in Daily Physical Activity

16. New Challenges • Documenting a whole school agreement that lists all of the expectations of Daily Physical Activity sessions and having this ratified by Governing Council • Make Daily Physical Activity part of the Teacher Induction program • Building in yearly review of practices to ensure we are providing appropriate assistance to staff that lack confidence and competence in this area

17. Any questions? Thank you