National Programmes

The School Sport Award was created to give schools the chance to identify their strengths and areas of improvement and create a development plan and ensure that health & wellbeing is a key focus for staff and pupils at their school. As outlined by sportscotland the School Sport Award...

• Encourages schools to self reflect and continuously improve.

• Puts young people at the forefront of the decision making nd planning of PE and sport in their school.

• Helps schools to increase young people's opportunities and engagement in PE & school sport.

• Helps schools to put PE & school sport at the heart of their planning, practice and ethos.

• recognises and celebrates successful PE & school sport models.

51 primary schools and 8 secondary schools across Angus have registered with the award. 9 primary schools have completed the self assessment and achieved either Bronze or Silver status. 5 primary schools and 2 secondary have submitted their gold application and 11 schools in Angus have gone on to provide evidence of the great work that is going in their school to achieve Gold status, so a huge well done to all schools and to those 11 that have gained their Gold Award:

Go to sportscotland school sport award to find out more about 

Young Ambassadors

The Young Ambassador Programme is a national Sportscotland initiative where selected pupils from all of Angus’s secondary schools receive comprehensive leadership experience within sport, education and community settings. The Young Ambassadors gain a vast range of skills based on the ever-important promotion, motivation and inspiration for young people in sport.

Ambassadors work alongside their Active Schools Coordinator and school staff where they receive support and guidance throughout their role allowing them to gain new skills and experiences whilst making a difference in their local school and community.  Young Ambassadors gain valuable life and employability skills such as communication, organisation and teamwork, both through strategic and operational roles.

Role of Young Ambassador

At the heart of the Young Ambassador programme is the principle that their views, and those of other young people are heard, valued and influence decision making. Young Ambassadors will become role models and leaders for other young people within their school and community.

A Young Ambassador has two key roles:

1. To promote sport; motivating and inspiring other young people to get involved within their local communities, schools & clubs.

2. To influence six key aspects of school sport:

• extra -curricular sport provision

• links to community sport opportunities

• opportunities for competition

• celebration of pupil achievements in sport

• leadership opportunities for young people

• PE in schools

Throughout your journey on the programme you will also have the opportunity to take part in various skill development and sport specific courses.

Who can apply?

The programme is open to secondary aged pupils.

How to apply?

The programme will be promoted within your school by your Active Schools Coordinator and school staff.  However, pupils and parents are encouraged to contact your Active Schools Coordinator for more information.

Further information about the Young Ambassador programme:

https://sportscotland.org.uk/schools/young-ambassadors/

Sports Leadership UK qualifications are designed on an easy to administer framework, the qualifications use sport and physical activity to help young people develop and hone their leadership skills whilst helping themselves and others stay physically active.

Develop confident, healthy leaders through sport and physical activity.

Young people undertaking a qualification with SLUK will learn and demonstrate important life skills such as effective communication and organisation whilst learning to lead basic physical activities to younger people, their peers, older generations and within the community.

The courses involve both guided & peer-to-peer learning and supervised leadership to ensure that learners have all the skills they need to lead basic physical activities to other people. 

For full information visit the SLUK website or speak to your Active Schools Coordinator.

As the national cycle training programme for school children, Bikeability Scotland is designed to give children the skills and confidence they need to cycle safely on the roads, and to encourage them to carry on cycling into adulthood.

Just like learning to swim, learning to cycle safely is an essential life skill. As schools return, it is very important that children continue to have access to cycle training. Scottish Government guidance encourages walking and cycling to school at this time, and Bikeability Scotland supports outdoor learning.

In Angus, the Active Schools team works with local Bikeability Officer John Bremner at the Angus Cycle Hub, to offer the Bikeability programme to all Angus Schools. John provides training for school staff and volunteers to enable them to deliver the Bikeability programme in schools, as well as a mentoring service for training deliverers. Training routes used at all schools are risk assessed and training resources and further support are also available.

The full range of Bikeability resources are available here.

"#SportHour is an informal LIVE Twitter conversation that we run from @sportscotland  which you can follow using the hashtag #SportHour. The aim is to discuss different aspects of sport in Scotland, to challenge, to share and to have a conversation where everyone can have their say. " (sportscotland)

Angus Active Schools attend this monthly chat and highlight stories and our insights into what is happening across Angus. We hope that schools, community clubs and groups will take part in this throughout the year to learn from other  groups across the country, but also showcase their own good practice.

Each month there is a different theme to link to upcoming events, national days/weeks e.g. Children's Mental Health Health Awareness Week. Sport Hour takes place on the first Monday of every month and is hosted by various groups that tie in with the theme and there are set questions issued prior to this. 

If you would like to know what these questions are please contact your Active Schools Coordinator who will be able to help.

Have a look back at previous #SportHour tweets by clicking here.

Full details on Sport Hour and previous stories can be found by clicking here.