Active Lives Survey
Schools selected for Autumn Term 2024
| Manchester | 105389 | Alma Park Primary School |
| Manchester | 105404 | Chapel Street Community Primary School |
| Manchester | 144913 | Rolls Crescent Primary School |
| Manchester | 105581 | The Barlow RC High School and Specialist Science College |
| Manchester | 141264 | Whalley Range 11-18 High School |
| Manchester | 148965 | Dixons Brooklands Academy |
| Manchester | 105592 | Manchester High School for Girls |
The Active Lives Children and Young People survey provides a world-leading approach to gathering data on how children engage with sport and physical activity. It gives anyone working with children aged 5-16 key data to help understand children’s attitudes and behaviours around sport and activity. Schoolchildren across England are asked to take part in this survey, which sits at the heart of Sport England’s vision – that everyone in England, regardless of their age, background and level of ability, should feel able to take part in sport and activity.
The survey was developed with the Department for Education (DfE), the Department of Health and Social Care and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. It’ll provide us, government and other partners with a broad and deep understanding of activity levels and behaviours, to help shape future policy and investment decisions.
Schools are randomly selected by Sport England to complete the Active Lives Children and Young People Survey termly. For more information about the survey, watch the national video or visit the Sport England website.
Schools are only required to complete 25 pupil responses to receive a bespoke report for your school (3 different classes if required). In addition, you will receive approximately £100 worth of credits from ESPO for equipment and wellbeing resources from their incentive’s brochure. QR Codes are available on request to make the survey more accessible for you pupils. If you would like to complete the survey and receive your Healthy Schools Rating from the Department for Education, then please respond to ;
Oliver Thomasson,
Project Support Lead – Active Children & Young People
Greater Manchester Moving
Mobile: 07842 419042
Other key updates from IPSOS and Sport England regarding the Active Lives Children and Young People Survey (as of Sept 2024).
Online Resources
Signpost schools to use the online resources from Sport England. Schools will receive these when GM Moving makes contact with identified schools.
- Greater Manchester Primary School Video
- Primary School Guide – Primary School Pupil Information and Advice
- Parent Guide for Schools – KS1 Parent Poster
- KS1 Parent Postcard – KS1 Parent Email Template – KS1 Parent Text Template
- KS1 School Report Example – KS2 School Report Example
- KS1 Questionnaire Summary – KS2 Questionnaire Summary
- Parent Questionnaire Summary
- Secondary School Guide
- Pupil Information and Advice
- Example School Report
- Secondary School Questionnaire Summary
- Secondary School Privacy Summary
Year 3 and 4 Feedback
Sport England have received feedback about year 3-4 children finding the survey difficult to complete. They have done some specific cognitive testing with teachers of Y3-4 pupils (some from GM) to understand the nature and scope of the challenges. This has resulted in some immediate changes to help, such as use of language (‘15 minutes’ instead of ‘quarter of an hour’ for instance) and adding more images. It also identified a few areas that we will explore in more depth over the course of Y8 to make changes if needed in Y9. Fundamentally the survey continues to work for this age group and whilst there will be genuine issues these are not widespread. School guide document A1 now contains some additional pages offering extra guidance to teachers completing the survey with these age groups.
QR codes
QR codes have been created for all schools as an alternative to the URL links. They are available on request to support schools to complete the survey. Schools can then print and display appropriately or display them on screens where possible for students to scan.
Questionnaire Enhancements
- Revised questions around physical literacy to align to the new Physical Literacy Consensus Statement that was published in September 2023.
- Visual aids to enhance comprehension
- Updated gender and ethnicity questions
- Minimum response threshold required for a school report lowered to 25 responses from 30
What happens to the data
- Statistics for physical activity participation each academic year
- Overall figures for that year
- Comparisons with previous years
- Demographical comparisons
- Geographical comparisons
- Data provides local insight – can be used by APs, local authorities, charities, health systems
- There are geographical areas which consistently have no local authority level data and are missing out on valuable insight
- Consider ways to engage local authorities or other local organisation to encourage schools to take part so they can benefit from the data.
Feedback
Feedback is welcome from schools, parents and network leads on the process – so if anyone wants to highlight anything directly to send to [email protected]
School Selection Process
School selection is done via DFE schools list