Parents’ Guide to
‘Inspiring young people to be more physically active
and lead healthier lifestyles’
March 2015 V1
Table of Contents
Foreword
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Introduction
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The Challenges
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Quality Assurance
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Additional Resources
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All resources and additional information found in this resource can be viewed and downloaded
from the parents zone of our website at www.inspireplus.org.uk
(Please note that hyperlinks can be accessed when using an electronic version of the resource)
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Foreword
The Legacy Challenge is supported and promoted by the Leadership, Coaching and Volunteering Team at the Youth
Sport Trust:
The Legacy Challenge provides Primary aged pupils, both in KS1 and KS2, an ideal
opportunity to grow and develop their leadership skills. As this guide highlights there are
numerous ways the Legacy Challenge can support your pupils to take on greater
responsibility within both the classroom and in the playground. It is an excellent platform
for Bronze Young Ambassadors or members of a School Sport Organising Crew to further
their skills by leading the delivery of the tool, promoting and raising awareness to peers
about the benefits of a healthy lifestyle and increasing participation in physical activity.
This will allow these key individuals already demonstrating leadership skills the challenge
to broaden their responsibilities to create a wider school impact, and become role models;
holding a role other pupils can aspire to take on.
The teacher guide not only provides guidance on the implementation but also how such a tool can contribute to
achievement and excellence across the whole school. The Legacy Challenge is flexible, and can be adopted as a
whole school approach or on a smaller scale for a specific group of pupils or one class. Either way, it is a reward and
recognition tool motivating and driving students to increase their engagement in the school sport offer and become
more active and healthy individuals, ultimately increasing their ability to be effective learners and leaders.
Impact to date
The Legacy Challenge has already inspired over 28,000 pupils to be more active and lead healthier lifestyles. Below is
what some schools have fed back to us:
“We have found the Legacy Challenge a very useful resource that has engaged our children, with focussed challenges
promoting our pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. The logs have been great evidence for Ofsted”.
Mrs Baldwin, Headteacher, St Sebastian’s Primary School
“We used the Legacy Challenge in partnership with our 8 partner primary schools to engage pupils in physical activity
and to be more health aware. The whole initiative was introduced and driven by our secondary school sports leaders
in each primary school. The impact to date has been fantastic and our leaders are looking forward to delivering the
Legacy Challenge again this year”
Mr Game, Assistant Headteacher, Jack Hunt Secondary School, Peterborough
"The Olympic Legacy Challenge is an excellent resource for schools. It connects the sensational sport we witnessed
this summer with important areas like health and the Olympic and Paralympic Values that so many schools found a
worthwhile focus in the build-up to London 2012. The resource is attractive and multi-layered yet simple enough for
teachers to promote without it taking over an already busy curriculum. My congratulations to Vincent Brittain on
creating the Olympic Legacy Challenge: like so many GB athletes of London 2012, it's a winner.”
Gaynor Nash, London 2012 Legacy Coordinator
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Backed by Olympic and Paralympic Athletes
Hannah Cockroft MBE, Double London 2012 Paralympic Gold Medallist and Sam Ruddock, London 2012 Paralympic
Athlete continues to endorse the Legacy Challenge with Inspire+, and joining them this year is adventurer Sarah
Outen MBE.
Vincent Brittain, CEO
Inspire+
Rob McCombe, Partnership Development Manager,
West Norwich & Dereham SSP
Sam Ruddock, Paralympic Athlete
Inspire+ and YST Sports Ambassador
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Parents’ guide
Introduction
What do we mean by Legacy?
The purpose of this initiative is for young people to create their own physical activity and health legacy to
bring about many outcomes, including:
- Being a positive role model and citizen
- Being an active volunteer in school, at home or in the local community
- Having a greater understanding of what it means to be healthy and putting this into practice
- Being more physically active by participating in structured competition and sports clubs
- Being more physically active in unstructured play and leisure time
Overall the aim of the Legacy Challenge initiative is that young people will become more physically active
and lead healthier lifestyles.
Legacy Logbooks
Prior to your child having received their log book, the school will have had an assembly or introduced the
Legacy Challenge within classes so that your child is aware of what the Legacy Challenge is, the unique
challenges that are included and why it is relevant to them.
The Legacy Challenge is designed so that it can be completed with whole school involvement or at home
on an individual basis.
Incentives / Reward System
Other than the reward of being healthier, happier and more active, there are further incentives within the
challenges that are aimed at motivating children to complete them.
1. Medal Certificates which are displayed on the front of the Logbooks are given to children as a
reward in completing the challenges, below details when these are handed out.
- Key Stage 1: After completing one challenge each pupil will receive a Bronze Certificate,
after completing two challenges, pupils will receive a Silver Certificate and after all
challenges are completed a Gold Certificate. Certificates are administered by your child’s
school.
- Key Stage 2: After completing two challenge each pupil will receive a Bronze Certificate,
after completing four challenges, pupils will receive a Silver Certificate and after all
challenges are completed a Gold Certificate. Certificates are administered by your child’s
school.
To complete the ‘My Challenge’, ‘Adventure Challenge’ and ‘Health Challenges’ only 1 task
needs to be completed from each
2. LEGACY CHALLENGE CHAMPIONS – if a child completes every task in each challenge they will
become a Legacy Challenge Champion. Schools are encouraged to run their own prize draw for
challenge champions to be entered into. These prize draw is individual to the schools and for more
information, please approach your child’s school.
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Further support / ideas
The Legacy Challenge
The Healthy Bunch are a cartoon team that have been designed by children to help others achieve success
in the Legacy Challenge. The main characters are Hannah Banana and Brian Broccoli. They appear
throughout the Legacy Challenge resources, making it fun and attractive for all children.
My Challenge – Key Stage 1
This challenge consists of 2 tasks: Meeting the Sporting Values and Helping Others.
Task 1 – Meet the Sporting Values
There are 6 Sporting Values. They are: Courage, Determination, Friendship, Honesty, Teamwork and
Respect and it is these values that incorporate the qualities from the Olympic and Paralympic movements
and the Sainsbury’s School Games. We feel children should be using these values to create their own
legacy.
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With your child you could explore each or some of the Values and explain what they mean to them
as individuals and discuss the meaning of each. Can they think of examples where they have
demonstrated one of the Values, or seen others demonstrate one of the Values? You could play
games or have role play activities where a value is prevalent.
Children could learn about Olympic or Paralympic sports – perhaps the more unusual ones, or ones they
have never experienced. For further Olympic and Paralympic resources, videos, games and activities for all
ages visit: www.getset.co.uk
Evidence: When a child completes a Sporting Value, they can receive a stamp/sticker/signature in the
appropriate box. To fully complete this challenge, KS1 children must complete 2 out of 6 values. Children
can also attach further evidence such as a diary entry/photo to support this. To become a Challenge
Champion such evidence is required and all values must be completed.
Task 2 – Helping Others
This is a challenge to encourage children to think of others before themselves and encourage kindness and
helpfulness.
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Ask your child what helping means and ways that they already help at school, home and in the
community. Explain that to achieve this challenge they must help out in different ways at least 10
times. This could be helping you out with housework or the shopping, or helping a friend who is
worried.
Evidence: Each time your child helps others out at school, at home or in the community they can colour in
a section of the running track or receive a sticker, stamp or signature. To complete this challenge all 10
sections must be completed.
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My Challenge – Key Stage 2
There are 3 tasks in this challenge, to complete the challenge only one needs to be completed but to
become a Challenge Champion your child must complete all 3.
Task 1 - Achieve Your Target
This is an opportunity for you and your child to focus on any aspect that you both feel could be improved.
The possibilities are endless.
- If your child is getting behind with their reading, they could challenge themselves to read more with
you and independently.
- If your child never tidies their room, you could challenge them to keep it tidy for a certain period of
time.
Evidence: Write up what their challenge was and how they felt before and after it started. You could attach
a photo of them doing their challenge to the logbook.
Task 2 - Help out more at school, home and in the neighbourhood
This is a simple challenge. Help your child to complete it by getting them to help out around the house, e.g.
washing dishes, setting the table, walking the dog.
Evidence: Every time your child completes 30 minutes you can sign/stamp/sticker a section of the running
track.
Task 3 - Support a local or national charity
Your child’s school probably does a lot of fund-raising activities but you can always help your child get more
involved.
- If a local fun run is coming up, enter together and raise some money through sponsorship.
- If your child loves animals, maybe visit your local animal shelter and offer to help out together.
- Lots of charities have many ways on how you can help, look on their websites for further inspiration
Evidence: You could attach a photo/picture to the logbook, plus any certificates showing how much you
have raised.
Adventure Challenge
Inspire+’s newest Ambassador Sarah Outen is currently completing her ‘London2London Adventure via the
World’ by human power alone. This challenge is to help inspire children to get outside and learn more
about themselves and provide greater self-reliance and resilience. For more information on Sarah and her
amazing adventure, please visit: www.sarahouten.com
Key Stage 1
Task 1 - Take part in an adventure
An adventure is defined as an exciting or unusual experience. This could be as simple as going to a new
outdoor area as a family, walking along hedgerows or to the woods, going to a beach or having a picnic in
an unusual place. Try to create a sense of the unknown to your adventure. Making up stories with your
child about what could be around the corner is a fun simple way.
There are also many adventuring activities online that you can do such as Geocaching. Geocaching is a
fun internet inspired treasure hunt where there are endless ‘caches’ to be found all over the world. Visit
www.geocaching.com and it is not just for kids! The National Trust also offer families a chance to
experience geocaching at a number of their properties, this could be a great way to engage the whole
family. More information can be found at: http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/activities/geo-caching/
The National Trust also has an adventure booklet named “50 things to do before you’re 11 ¾” which is
aimed
at
young
people
adventuring
the
countryside.
For
more
information
visit
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/families/50-things/
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Evidence: Children are asked to write a short sentence about their adventure and perhaps attach a
photo/picture of their adventure to the logbook
Task 2 - Make a den
This can be inside or outside. Get your child to create their own den from equipment that you provide or
from things already in their room/ in the garden.
Evidence: Children are asked to attach a photo/picture of them in their den
Task 3 - It’s a Bug’s Life
When your child is in the garden ask them to look around and try to find as many different creatures and
plants as possible. You could help your child to identify the different species. Children could then choose
their favourite creature or plant, draw and label a picture, possibly even make a 3D model!
Evidence: Children are asked write each creature/plant they find in their logbooks and could also attach a
photo/picture of them investigating
Key Stage 2
Task 1 - Make a camp
If your child wants a sleep over, challenge them and their friends to create a camp in their room or in the
garden. If you are a keen camping family, next time you go remember to take photos of your child helping
to set up camp and then all tucked up in their sleeping bag.
Evidence: Children are asked to attach photos/pictures of their camping experience to their logbook.
Task 2 - Research Sarah’s Challenge
Encourage your child to go to Sarah’s website www.sarahouten.com and find out where she has travelled
and how. They could then write up what they find out in a project style or possibly create a PowerPoint
show. If your child has been on an adventure (see KS1 section for adventure activities) they could
write/draw a story about it. Using photos of them on their adventure in a comic style is a fun way to do this.
They could add speech bubbles and sound effects.
Evidence: Encourage your child to attach their research / project / story to their logbook as evidence
Task 3 - Human Powered Journey
Are you planning a holiday or a weekend away? Is it possible for part of your holiday to be just cycling,
boating or walking? Get your child involved in the planning of the trip, where you are going to go, the route
you will take and even the equipment you will need. If this is not possible, can they plan a journey
somewhere they would not normally go under their own power – walking, biking or scooting.
Evidence: Attach your child’s plan of their journey and photos/pictures of them completing it
Health Challenge Key Stage 1 & Key Stage 2
To maintain a basic level of health, children and young people aged 5 - 18 need to do at least 60 minutes
of physical activity every day, which should be a mixture of moderate intensity aerobic activity, such as fast
walking, and vigorous intensity aerobic activity, such as running. They should also be eating a balanced
healthy diet and receiving enough sleep so they can perform at their best during school.
It is important that children are not put off by the amount of exercise they need to do. Most will already
being doing a lot of exercise a day that does count towards the one hour recommended amount and
therefore only have to make small adjustments to their daily routine. Children need to recognise that this
does not need to be a 60 minute chunk of exercise and can be split into smaller amounts of exercise.
Children can also use some of their work from other challenges to provide evidence for passing this
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challenge, such as Join a Sports Club. They can also include PE lessons and play time as part of their daily
recommended amount of exercise.
To meet these targets of physical and emotional well-being we have designed, in partnership with the
Healthy Schools team, four simple tasks which are all geared towards improving your child’s health and
activeness to hopefully change their lifestyle to a healthier one.
Task 1 - Walk, Bike, Scoot or Skip to School
This is an easy task to do. Instead of getting in the car, walk with your child to school. If this is not possible,
why not drive most the way but stop before you get to the school gates and walk the rest. If there is no
suitable place to stop, you can complete this task by doing alternative exercise, such as walking or riding to
the park or local shop every day for 2 weeks, walk up and down the stairs 10 times each day or around the
garden.
Evidence: Children are to tick the box when they have walked, biked, scooted or skipped to school for that
day or have completed their alternate activity
Task 2 - Eat a Healthy Lunch
In line with the initiative to encourage more children in Key Stage 1 to have Free School Meals, we are
encouraging you to take this up for at least one week in the hope that your child will receive the greatest
nutritional intake possible. Currently only 1% of packed lunches meet the nutritional food standards. If
children receive the right nutrition, studies show that they are more likely to have greater energy levels and
attain better academic levels in school. You might also find they start to like more food varieties making
your home meal times easier!
Evidence: Children are to draw a picture of their favourite meal and label the different food types. You can
use the healthy food plate resource which is available from the parent’s zone at
http://www.inspireplus.org.uk
Task 3 - Sweet Dreams
Many children do not get enough quality sleep and this often reflects in their energy levels at school and
also their academic levels of achievement. This task aims to get the children to take control of their own
bedtime routine, creating optimum conditions for a good night’s sleep. (5-7 year olds need 10.5-11 hrs.
/night; 7-11 year olds need 9.5-10.5 hrs. /night)
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Help your child set up their bedtime routine, such as: having a warm drink, brushing their teeth,
reading a story together. Help your child further by not allowing them to watch TV in their room or
play computer games for at least an hour before they go to sleep.
Evidence: Children are to draw up a bedtime routine with pictures and tick spaces to check off when they
have completed the task. Why not use our premade bedtime routine resource which is available from the
parent’s zone at http://www.inspireplus.org.uk
Task 4 - Get Happy!
Speak to your child about what they have done during the day and what they found fun and made them
smile. Reminding your child of the fun things will help boost their self-esteem and celebrates their personal
achievements; this task will help your child feel happier and more positive on a daily basis. It will also
provide you with some funny anecdotes about your child.
Evidence: With your child write these little memories down in the logbook. You can use the premade form
which is available from the parent’s zone at http://www.inspireplus.org.uk
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Competition Challenge Key Stage 1 & Key Stage 2
The aim of this challenge is to get as many children as possible involved in intra or inter-school sport. Your
child’s school can achieve this in many different ways.
This will primarily be up to your child’s school to help them get involved in sports competitions. However if
your child does clubs outside of school and they play against another team, this can be used as extra
evidence for completing this task.
Key Stage 1 only
Selfie Competition: Why not create a home self-challenge between family members. Help your child find
their starting point and set up their challenge and target. Ideas for this could be:
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How many catches you can complete without dropping the ball/bean bag.
How many jumps on a trampoline in 1 minute.
How many skips can be done in a row?
Evidence: To complete this challenge, children must participate in one of the competition types. When
completed, children can colour in the trophy on top of the podium above the competition they have
completed. They are also encouraged to attach certificates of attendance or winning as well as photos of
them taking part. To become a Challenge Champion all competition types need to be completed and
photos of them participating should ideally be attached.
Meeting the Sporting Values Challenge – Key Stage 2 Only
The 6 Sporting Values are Courage, Determination, Friendship, Honesty, Teamwork and Respect and it is
these values that incorporate the qualities from the Olympic and Paralympic movements and the
Sainsbury’s School Games. We feel children should be using these values to create their own legacy.
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With your child you could explore each or some of the Values and explain what they mean to them
as individuals and discuss the meaning of each. Can they think of examples where they have
demonstrated one of the Values, or seen others demonstrate one of the Values? You could play
games or have role play activities where a value is prevalent.
Children could learn about Olympic or Paralympic sports – perhaps the more unusual ones, or one
they have never experienced.
For Olympic and Paralympic resources, videos, games, other case studies and activities for all ages visit:
www.getset.co.uk
Evidence: When your child completes a Sporting Value, they can receive a stamp/sticker/signature in the
appropriate box. To fully complete this challenge, KS2 children must complete 3 out of 6 values. Children
can also attach further evidence such as a diary entry/photo to support this. To become a Challenge
Champion such evidence is required and all values must be completed.
Join a Sports Club Challenge – Key Stage 2 Only
Schools offer many sports clubs that are free of charge and usually last at least 6 weeks. Encourage your
child to take part in one of these clubs. It may give them the opportunity to make new friends and find skills
they never knew they had.
If for some reason your child is unable to attend a school club, there are many sports clubs for a wide
variety of sports available in most areas. Speak to your school about local sports club links.
Evidence: The leader of the club will need to sign your child’s logbook after each weekly session
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Quality Assurance
Whilst the Legacy Challenge hopes to inspire individuality in each challenge, a high level of quality for each
challenge is expected. Different activities will be more/less challenging for different children. Use the
suggestions and case study examples as a guide to whether the challenge would be fully met. If you have
any questions please speak to your child’s teacher/school.
Additional Resources
We have produced many accompanying resources which have all been designed to aid your child in
providing evidence for the Legacy Challenge. We recommend that as well as recording the evidence in
their logbooks, your child also uses the additional resources and attaches them to their logbook or even
keeps them in a folder.
All additional resources can be downloaded from our parent and pupil zones within the Inspire+ website!
Just go to www.inspireplus.org.uk
Please note that you will be required to create a username and password to be able to login and access the
resources from the website.
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