Active Kids Get Talking: Active Ideas
We're extending the Active Kids programme and we want
you to help us to do it! We have lots of ideas about how we can support kids
around the country, but we want to know what you think.
Sainsbury’s has come up with five Active Ideas which we think will
make a valuable contribution to schools and groups across the country. We'd like you
to work with us to build on these outline ideas so that you get the scheme
you most want.
We want to give you a real say in how Sainsbury’s can best support
schools and groups in the future. So we're encouraging you to ask for ideas
and take opinions from as many people in your whole school or group community as possible.
Have a look at the Toolkits on this website to help you get started.
Here are the five Active Ideas we would like you to work on:
Active Kids Time
We think we could develop a national programme to support you in setting
up your own activities in school or group time and out of school or group hours. It could involve:
- An Active Kids Time website providing advice and practical support to
help schools or groups set up and run more clubs and activities.
- We may be able to give financial support and equipment.
- All new clubs would become accredited Active Kids clubs and receive help
of various kinds.
What do you think these clubs and activities should be?
Active Kids Alternative Sports
This programme would help you to try out new and exciting sports which you
may not have tried before. It could involve:
- Information about a whole range of different sports, and a free roadshow
to visit schools and groups. The roadshow would arrive at your school or group and run 'taster'
sessions in different sports (e.g. climbing, cycling, dance) so that you
could try them out.
- At the end of the roadshow, we'd donate some of the equipment to your
school or group.
- You could redeem your Active Kids vouchers for alternative sports equipment,
visits or more taster sessions and coaching from local clubs.
What should these sports be? And how could Sainsbury’s help your school or group
to get into alternative sports?
Active Kids Get Cooking
This idea would help you to learn more about cooking, and use healthy ingredients
(at reduced prices). It could involve:
- As well as continuing to redeem your Active Kids vouchers for equipment,
the online 'nutrition lab' could give practical advice on healthy eating
and lifestyles, menus and top cooking tips from celebrity chefs such as Jamie
Oliver.
- A roadshow with a special bus and a chef on board. You'd be able to watch
demonstrations as well as having a go at cooking something alongside an expert.
What should go onto the website? What else could Sainsbury’s do to
support cooking in your school or group?
Active Kids Enterprise
This idea would help you to learn about business and enterprise. It could
involve:
- A virtual supermarket set up with different challenges and realistic
problems for you to solve.
- The virtual environment would be a bit like a computer game but based
on real life.
- There could be a virtual supermarket schools’ or groups’ league to see
who can run the most successful store.
- We could offer work placements in your local Sainsbury’s store
.
What are your ideas for the website? What other school or group activities could
be included in this idea?
Your Active Kids
We’re being deliberately vague about our fifth idea; our suggestion
is that it could be either about music or the environment. Which one do you
want to go for, and what should it be about? How could Sainsbury’s help
you most with an environmental or music-based programme?
Alternatively, you might have a completely new idea for Active Kids. If
you do, we'd love to hear about it. Over to you…
Remember, the closing date for entries is 23 May