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This is your chance to have a say in the next Active Kids project and to make a real impact as a school council/forum. Here are some tips on how you could go about organising your project. You don’t have to follow them but they might be a helpful guide.
Read through our proposed Active Ideas so that you are clear what they are about.
Spend it talking about and planning the project. Who should be doing what? How much time have you got? Where do you start? There are some tips in Co-ordinating Active Kids Get Talking in school or group.
Decide who is doing what. Roles and responsibilities will help you with your decisions. Use the Active Kids action planner to plan your consultation step by step.
You need to think about how you are going to tell people about the consultation. You could ask your headteacher or group leader whether you can talk to the other children and teachers about the Active Ideas in assembly soon. Remember the closing date is 23 May. There is more help in Active Kids Get Talking in assembly. Have a look at Active Kids get the word out for ideas how to promote your project.
Spend time during school council/forum meetings thinking about each of the ideas in turn. There's an Active Ideas presentation you could use. Think about how the ideas would work, and perhaps how you would change or develop them. Then ask your council reps to talk them through with their classmates and teachers and group leaders. You could use our Active Kids Get Talking questionnaire to help you find out what everyone wants. The Active Kids research methods will help you with the results from your questionnaires.
Look at our fifth Active Idea and think about it really hard. We think we might like to have a project about either music or the environment. Do you agree? What would it be like? Or you might want to think of a completely new idea. There’s plenty of room for you to tell us what you want here.
Ask your council reps to take the ideas you've developed back to their classes. Ask your teachers or group leaders if all the children can spend some time, perhaps in PSHE/PSE/PSD, thinking and talking about these ideas and adding new ones of their own. Keep going until you’re really happy and excited about the Active Ideas you’ve come up with.
Get together all the responses from your consultation. See which ideas come up a lot or you think are really good. Write them down.
Let everyone know what you have found out. You could do this in an assembly or newsletter or during your class council meetings.
To Sainsbury’s Active Kids Get Talking by 23 May. Go to How to enter for the entry form plus handy hints for making a good application and information about what the judges are looking for. You can enter for as many Active Ideas as you like. Just remember to fill in an entry form for each of them.
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Our ideas for the future of Active Kids. What do you reckon? Could you do better? Tell us your ideas about how we can improve them.
A group of people thinking about an idea and developing it by asking others what they think. The goal of a consultation is to come to an agreement about a decision.
Check out the main Active Kids site to find out all about what we’ve already done for schools.