Healt With Sport

Playing sports helps you stay in shape, teaches you how to organize your time, boosts friendships and builds relationships with your peers and adults. Through athletics, you gain skills that can best be acquired on court, track or field.

• Friendship
• Family
• Coaches
• Health
• Sports Nutrition
• School
• Leadership Skills

Friendship

Playing sports enables you to create friendships you otherwise might not have formed. Sports bring teens together from different schools, backgrounds, and communities. Many times, the friendships you create on the field remain intact even when you are not playing sports.
 

Family

The fans on the sidelines are one of the most important parts of the game. The constant support of your parents helps you to feel good about yourself and strengthens your connection to them. As a teen, it is not always easy to find time to spend time with your parents. Sports give you and your parents time to appreciate one another.

 

Coaches

Providing wisdom and encouragement, coaches can be very good role models. The relationship that you develop with your coach is very important to the success of the team. Positive coaching helps to bring the team together, and gives players the right tools to push themselves academically and physically.
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Health

Participating in sports improves your health in many ways. To be a good athlete, you must take care of yourself. This gets you thinking about what to eat and how to treat your body to achieve peak performance levels.
 

Sports Nutrition

When engaging in sports for the first time, you may feel hungrier than usual. This is normal, because your body is expending much more energy than it is used to. Here are some nutrition tips to help keep you healthy while you participate in sports.

• Eat fat. About 20 to 25 percent of energy comes from fats, so to keep energy levels high, your body needs you to consume fat.
• Make sure to eat before, during and after your sport. The helps maintain blood glucose levels, which in turn will help enhance your sports performance.
• Keep hydrated! When playing a sport, your body loses a lot of fluid, which can cause dehydration. This is dangerous, potentially fatal, so drink plenty of water.
• Eat a balanced diet. An athlete's diet should include plenty of complex carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins, minerals and fats.
• Limit salt and simple sugar.
• Don't fast!

 

School

It's a common misconception that being both a student and an athlete is hard if not impossible. Participating in sports can actually have a positive impact on school. Sports force you to organize your time so that you can both go to practice and finish your homework. The key is finding a balance. If you can learn to organize your time then you can succeed in both.
 

Leadership Skills

Participating in sports helps build leadership skills. Sports teams give you an opportunity to surround yourself with competitive people and role models, and learn from them both. You can demonstrate your own leadership through team captainships and individual actions to improve your team's success.

MOVE ON

What is Move On and what does it offer?

Move On offers a direct approach to promotion, engagement and delivery that highlights opportunity for all rather than need for some. It describes the benefits that learning and qualifications can bring, and encourages people to believe that they can progress.

• Promotion: A positive sell, offering the opportunity to improve English and maths skills. The focus is on gaining qualifications and progressing rather than on people's problems and needs: ‘Would English or maths qualifications help you to move on?’ rather than the negative ‘Have you got problems with your reading, writing and maths?’
• Engagement: Training and tools for referrers in the community, in education and in the workplace, who have frequent contact with potential learners. The training gives an opportunity to explore the positive language to use and try a National Test.
• Delivery: A focused learning opportunity offering a chance to develop skills and achieve a national qualification, which enables learners to:
  – develop wider skills
  – prepare and practise to take the National Tests in Adult Literacy and Numeracy when ready. The Move On Learner Route provides online skills development and practice tests.

Three successive Move On programmes were commissioned by the (then) DfES, QIA and LSIS:

• The first Move On programme (2003 to 2006) developed and disseminated the approach, supporting providers and other organisations to adopt it and adapt it to their needs.
• The second Move On Up programme (2006 to 2008) embedded Move On into providers’ practice and broadened the offer to support promotion, engagement, delivery and achievement at Entry 3, as well as at Level 1 and Level 2. It adapted and developed the approach for employers and the workplace, known as Get On At Work and developed support for a campaign approach, known as Test the . . .
• The third Move On to World Class Skills programme (2008 to 2009) has adapted the approach to meet the needs of the World Class Skills agenda.

Move On is now being embedded within the Skills for Life Support Programme (SfLSP).