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A Girls Active School Games Celebration Day, co-designed by the Girls Active Leaders, has been held at Nottingham Trent University’s Clifton Sports Hub
Active Notts and Active Derbyshire have been working in partnership with Youth Sport Trust (YST) to deliver the Girls Active programme in schools in Derby City and Nottingham City.
In February a Girls Active Inspiration Day kick-started a new round of the programme in the cities, and the Leaders returned to NTU yesterday (Tuesday 10 June) also bringing along groups of up to 20 girls from each school.
Following the Inspiration Day the Leaders have begun to influence and encourage their peers to be more active.
In March/April they were also visited by their Girls Active ambassador who spoke to them about some of their motivations and challenges to being active and what they would like the School Games Celebration Day to look and feel like.
This insight shaped the day, with activities designed to address some of the barriers to being active, such as body confidence, whilst also supporting the girls to build their resilience and have the confidence to try new things.
The girls were able to choose from a range of non-traditional sports and activities such as skateboarding, street dance, hula hoop and boxing, as well as inflatables, a climbing wall and team building. There was also a bracelet making activity on offer during lunch. Music was a key part of the event and the girls had asked to choose the music played during the day – which resulted in some impromptu dancing out on the sports field.
The day was opened with a welcome speech by one of the ambassadors, Charm Daley, who spoke about her own experiences of being active and the positive impact it has had on her life. She also addressed another barrier that had come through the consultation, encouraging the girls to support and empower each other to embrace the sweat and that it’s okay to not look ‘your best’ after physical activity.
As part of her ambassador role Charm also supported and encouraged the girls from Djanogly City Academy throughout the day, along with fellow ambassadors Charlotte Small (Farnborough Spencer Academy) Samantha Macheka (Park Vale Academy), Georgie Pryor (Oakwood Academy and Redhill Academy), Michaela Castillo-Williams (Nottingham Academy) and Afsana Afsar (The Bemrose School).
Girls Active is a national programme run by YST which recognises the challenges girls experience to taking part in physical activity, and supports schools and empowers girls to make the necessary changes to PE, sport and physical activity provision to remove barriers and develop a relevant and vibrant offer to engage all girls, not just the sporty few.
