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<strong>Education</strong> Magazine<br />
valuable, transferable skills in the process. The one week course<br />
offers a new route into sport, practical workplace experience,<br />
the chance to be active and an understanding of how the<br />
acquired skills are relevant to employment regardless of<br />
whether this is in sport. The course supports the establishment<br />
of good habits – leading children by example. Some secondary<br />
schools are linking with feeder primary schools to stage<br />
courses, others are seeing the course as an option for work<br />
experience, an opportunity to train pupils to help in extracurricular<br />
clubs for younger children, or as skill acquisition<br />
and volunteering towards Duke of Edinburgh awards.<br />
Holiday camps are hosting Active Leader courses which<br />
could lead to work placements during the summer break. It<br />
is early days, but the pilot scheme which ran in the summer<br />
of 2016, supported by the Youth Sport Trust, resulted in a<br />
100% increase in the self-confidence of the participants, all<br />
attendees became engaged in physical activity themselves<br />
(only 50% were engaged beforehand), and all have been<br />
involved in the delivery of sport including working on<br />
holiday camps, teaching swimming, helping on rowing<br />
development courses and taking lifeguarding qualifications.<br />
Engagement in physical activity needs to become a habit as<br />
important to our education as learning to read and write. We<br />
need to lead by example whether as teachers, parents, carers<br />
or siblings. Perhaps we should all become “Active Leaders”.<br />
Sarah Maxwell is a professional Fitness Trainer currently<br />
running school workshop and talks in the South<br />
East. She can be contacted on 07973 233668<br />
or email sarah@sarahmaxwell.com / sarahmaxwell.com<br />
For more info about Active Leaders courses in your<br />
school, Penny Snowden can be contacted on 07767<br />
778541 or emailed at penny@psconsulting.uk<br />
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