Children and Young People Active Lives - Participating Schools

Congratulations on being selected to complete the Active Lives Children and Young People survey. 

What is the survey?

The Active Lives Children and Young People Survey is a national survey commissioned by Sport England and provides a world-leading approach to gathering data on how children and young people engage with sport and physical activity.

Understanding young people’s attitudes and behaviours towards physical activity is important to enable the shaping of opportunities for them to be active. 

Find out more about the survey, including how your school benefits and how schools have used the survey to improve their PE and school sport offers.

What do I need to do?

Each school will have three year groups selected to take part and one class from each year will be selected to complete the survey.

1. Email the class teacher initials for all mixed ability classes in the sampled years to [email protected]. 
   
   
2. Contact parents to let them know that their child has been selected to take part, the survey operates on an opt-out system. 
   
   
3. Complete the student surveys. 
   
   
4. Complete the teacher survey - you're finished! 

Additional Notes:

• If you are unsure what classes have been selected please check our list here or email and we can let you know.
• Example emails to send to parents can be found here.
• Primary students should complete the survey in school whilst secondary students can do the survey at home or in school.
• Please share the information sheets with students which will explain the survey and what it is for.
• Surveys are all completed online with results going direct to IPSOS Mori who manage the survey.
• If Year 1 or 2 has been selected contact parents to ask them to complete the parent survey. Template letters and posters to share with parents can be found here.

What happens next?

ESPO will contact you directly to claim your equipment voucher, provided you have enough responses.

At the end of the following term Sport England will provide your school with a bespoke report summarising your pupils attitudinal/behavioural results.

This will include your bronze, silver or gold DfE  Healthy Schools Rating, providing you met the criteria.

How the survey helps your school and students:

• Receive a bespoke report and gain insights into students' physical activity and wellbeing.
• Guidance to improve students' physical activity levels and wellbeing
• A Department for Education Healthy Schools Rating which celebrates the actions taken to promote physical activity and healthy eating and identifying next steps for further improvement.
• Support from GM Moving to further understand the report. See how Irlam Endowed Primary used the findings from the survey to revolutionise their PE provision here.

N.B. School level data is private and will only be shared with you, its contribution to the full dataset will be anonymised

How the survey supports your borough:

• Local data and insight of children and young people's physical activity and wellbeing
• Supports decisions around where funding might be allocated
• Influences provision to support increasing physical activity levels.

How the survey supports nationally:

• Data is used to inform government policy, e.g. PE and Sport Premium, Childhood Obesity Plan
• Informs cross-departmental programmes e.g. Department for Transport's Bikeability programme, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' 25-year plan for the environment.

*To be eligible for any rewards you must have a minimum of 30 responses

Privacy Notices

A privacy notice setting out who Ipsos MORI are, what the personal data being collected is, how it will be used, who it will be shared with and your legal rights in relation to this survey is available to view and download here.

Additional privacy notices for pupils and teachers are also available. These can be found on the Sport England website. 

You have the right to withdraw your consent to take part in the survey at any time. Your pupils, parents and teachers have the right to choose not to take part in the research. The research activity will be conducted in accordance with the Market Research Society Code of Conduct, and the information you provide will be treated in accordance with data protection law.