MOVE Congress 2019 presentation by Viv Holt and Helen Vost, Youth Sport Trust International, in the track 'Discovering new perspectives on physical activity promotion among school children' on 18 October.

1. How can we award schools for
delivering high quality physical
activity, physical education and
school sport?
Viv Holt and Helen Vost,
Youth Sport Trust International

2. European Physical Activity Label for
Schools
• Why?
• The milestones so far
• Development – the challenges and
opportunities
• The future

3. Let’s Get Moving

4. Why?

5. Why?

6. • To improve quality and quantity of sport and physical
activity programs
• To enable schools to reflect on their provision for
young people
• To increase participation of pupils in physical activity
programs in European Union member states
Why?

7. • To benchmark their provision and progress against
other schools across their country and Europe
• To identify areas for development and improvement
• To celebrate and label success
Why?

8. Milestones
• Hungarian School Sport Federation
• Youth Sport Trust International
• Estonian School Sport Union
• European Physical Education Association
• International Sport and Culture Association
• University of Luxembourg
• University of Ljubljana

9. Milestones
• Partner meetings
• Research
• Creating a framework
• Consultation with schools
• Developing process for self-assessment
• Further consultation with schools
• Phased process
• 3 levels
• Moving Schools Award

10. Development – the Challenges and
Opportunities
• Different curricula in different countries and
different approaches
• Language
• Inspired by European School Sport Day
• European wide movement of schools

11. Impossible is Nothing
“Impossible is just a big word
thrown around by small men
who find it easier to live in the
world they’ve been given than
to explore the power they
have to change it. Impossible
is not a fact. Impossible is
nothing.”
Muhammad Ali, heavyweight boxer

12. The Future
• Moving Schools Award
• Champion in each country
• Promotion to schools
• Movement of schools across Europe

13. The Future

14. Thank you