What is it?
We have teamed up with our colleagues from the 8 School Sport Partnership’s in Norfolk and Active Norfolk to launch the ‘Big Norfolk School Physical Activity Survey‘. The survey uses the online survey tool Koboca and sims to build insight that can support schools sport and physical activity offers, including the School Games, in order to improve your pupils physical activity levels, wellbeing and whole school outcomes.
What questions are included in the survey?
The survey is made up of a maximum of 10 questions (depending on year group). These cover the following topics:
- Which activities pupils would like to try
- How active pupils are
- Which pupils have/have not competed for their school team
- Who wants to be a sports leader
- Who can and cannot meet the national guidelines for swimming
- Nutritional knowledge
- Transition worries
- Resilience
- Well-being
- Support – someone to talk to
If you would like to view the survey, please click on the below link to a test version of the survey:
What are the benefits?
For schools:
- Instant personalised data on your pupils (accessible only to schools) to aid your understanding of how to increase pupils physical activity levels, support their wellbeing and target provision to those pupils who could benefit the most.
- Valuable insight on your pupils to help you use PE and Sport Premium funding more effectively and creatively, as well as providing evidence for Ofsted.
- Anonymised data sent to your School Sport partnership to support them in creating provision aimed at impacting who school priorities, not just PE.
For Pupils:
- Pupils voice to shape physical activity and wellbeing provision in their school/area
- An opportunity to give feedback and access School Games, or wider physical activity provision, that they want.
How to access the survey
To access the survey, you will need to:
- Register on Koboca (only takes 2 mins) – REGISTER HERE. Fill in the registration form with your schools details and select the name of your School Sport Partnership from the “Sports Partnership” drop down box (this is important as this links your school to your partnership and allows you to take part in the survey). Registration is completely FREE to all schools within the partnership so please tick “I understand my Sports Partnership has paid for this package and there is no cost to my school”. Once registered you will receive an email with your login codes. Please keep these safe as you will need them to access the survey.
- Complete the survey – To complete the survey, login to your Koboca account (LOGIN HERE) and select the “My Surveys” tab at the top of the page. In the National Survey section you will see two surveys called: “Primary – Pupil Activity & Well-being Survey 2023/24” and “Secondary Pupil Activity & Well-being Survey 2023/24”. Please complete the one relevant to the age of your pupils. The most efficient way for pupils to complete the survey is to click the “Copy Link” button and paste the link into a shared area for pupils to click on to answer the questions.
- View your schools results – Once pupils start completing the survey, you will be able to view your schools results straight away, in live time, down to the individual pupil level (e.g. you will see the names of the pupils who answered that they would like to get involved with sports leadership, or what is the post popular after school clubs. You can view a short video showing how to view your schools report by CLICKING HERE.
PLEASE NOTE – Koboca has a strict GDPR policy and follows data protection protocol. The pupil data collected can only be seen by school staff (and not SSP/Active Norfolk). The overall school data will contribute towards an SSP/County totals, but this will be school data and NOT pupil data. If you have any questions regarding data protection, please email enquiries@koboca.co.uk
Template email/letter for parents
You may want to let parents of your pupils know that you will be taking part in the survey. To help you we have produced a template email/letter which you might like to edit/use.
Dear Parent or Guardian,
RE: Big Norfolk School Physical Activity Survey
This week we are carrying out a pupil activity and wellbeing survey and we would like your child to take part. The survey consists of up to 10 questions asking them what activities they do, and what activities they would like to do. It will also ask about their confidence and resilience, and what they know about nutrition. Their answers will help us plan where and how we allocate our resources and ensure we have a positive impact on EVERY pupil’s wellbeing this year.
Pupil voice gives us the most powerful data to use, in creating real change and having the biggest impact. The data collected in this survey will help inform the national picture and help us to redress the fall in activity levels and the increase of poor mental wellbeing in young people.
We are using a Survey system called Koboca to carry out the survey. Koboca has a strict GDPR policy and follows data protection protocol. The pupil data collected can only be seen by school staff. The overall school data will contribute towards a national figure, but this will be school data, NOT pupil data. e.g. 16 pupils said they would like to try Hockey.
Regards
School