Dear Headteacher

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust is delighted to bring you the new Move it Boom physical activity competition for primary school children, and we’d love your school to take part.

Once again we’ve teamed up with local sports partners to offer some great prizes to the winning schools, with new website content available from Monday 5 March at www.healthforkids.co.uk/moveitboom

In this digital schools pack you’ll find:

an overview of how the competition works and how kids can take part the benefits of taking part for your school details of the prizes on offer, including £1,000 playground equipment for

your school (and the terms and conditions) information on how to promote the competition in school and to parents

and carers, including social media resources an example letter for parents and carers, and a paragraph for use in your

school newsletter or parent mail a copy of the promotional poster a lesson plan printable username cards for children a banner you can use on your school website or as an email signature

For more information, talk to your public health nurse (school nurse), or contact Rosie Huckle, communications manager for Families, Young People and Children’s Services: rosie.huckle@leicspart.nhs.uk

All about Move it BoomMove it Boom, Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust’s award-winning physical activity campaign for primary school kids is back for the third time, and we’d love your school to get involved!

Move it Boom is completely free for schools to enter, and we have some great prizes on offer. Move it Boom launches on Monday 5 March and will run until Friday 29 June. The overall winning school will be announced on Friday 6 July.

Move it Boom is hosted on the Health for Kids website (www.healthforkids.co.uk/moveitboom), and is a fun way for children to learn about the importance of physical activity for overall health and wellbeing.

In 2016, 218 schools across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland took part in the competition, with children logging a phenomenal 47,053 activities. This year we’d like to go even bigger and better!

How kids can take partWhen children first visit the site, they will be allocated an anonymised username and password. Class teachers may like to give out login cards (included with this digital pack) to children as a reminder. Children will also be asked to select their school from a drop-down list.*

The Move it Boom site provides lots of suggestions (including video clips and links) for how children can get moving and having fun, either by setting themselves individual challenges or by joining in with friends and siblings.

Once they’re ready to record their activity, children choose from 12 pre-selected broad categories, which include ‘playing games at home’, ‘inventing a game’ and ‘challenge yourself’. They click on the appropriate icon and straightaway will see their points score increase. As they add more and more points, they will see their unique robot develop and change, with upgraded parts reflecting the nature of the activities they have been doing.

As well as the main schools competition, children are encouraged to work together to invent their own games which they think others will enjoy playing and to create a demonstration film. The best films will be uploaded to the Move it Boom site, with an overall winner selected at the end of the competition. Children will need adult support to do this - more information can be found at www.moveitboom.co.uk/your-ideas

*Please note that the points being added for each school are monitored throughout the campaign in the interests of ensuring a fair competition. If any usernames are logging an unusually high number of activities, we will query this with you.

Why your school should take partTaking part in Move it Boom brings a number of benefits for the school, as well as health benefits for children.

It provides evidence of how your school is supporting children’s health and wellbeing, which can be used in your school Self-Evaluation Form (SEF). Move it Boom can be used to evidence the physical activity aspects of the Healthy

Schools accreditation, if applicable, or to support Ofsted reporting. The Healthy Schools team is particularly interested to see how schools use local and national campaigns to encourage healthy behaviours in and out of school, as well as how the whole school community is involved. Move it Boom is a great resource for schools to use to show this.

Throughout the competition, you will receive regular updates on where your school is positioned on the leaderboard, how many and which types of activities have been logged. We’ll also send you ideas about how to keep children motivated and involved.

The prizes on offerSchools leaderboard prizes

We are delighted to be able to offer the overall winning school wooden playground equipment worth £1,000, generously donated by local play specialists, Red Monkey (www.redmonkeyplay.co.uk). This can be adapted to suit your school environment and will help you to promote children’s fitness and activity.

In addition, we have again teamed up with local sports partners to offer a range of other exciting prizes:

A sporting experience day at the world-renowned Olympic training facilities at Loughborough University for a class of children – part of the first prize for the overall winning school.

A tour of the Leicester Riders stadium, plus basketball taster sessions, provided by Leicester Riders Basketball Club for the school with the second highest number of activities logged.

A cricket taster session in school, plus 30 complimentary T20 tickets for a home game in July, provided by Leicestershire County Cricket Club for the school with the third highest number of activities logged.

A tour of the Leicester Tigers stadium, plus rugby taster sessions, provided by Leicester Tigers Rugby Club for the school with the fourth highest number of activities logged.

Four football taster sessions in school provided by the Progressive Skills Academy for the school with the fifth highest number of activities logged.

Prize for the best game demonstration film submitted

The film submitted to us with the best game demonstration will win a tour of the King Power stadium and tickets to an Under 23s match, provided by Leicester City Football Club.

Full terms and conditions for these prizes are set out below.

Promoting Move it Boom in school and to parentsIn previous years, what the winning schools had in common was their ability to maintain momentum and continue to encourage children to log activities throughout the competition. Here are some ideas to help you promote Move it Boom with your school community:

Make sure you display the posters prominently in school where everyone can see them.

Set aside time in school for children to login and register. Throughout the competition, invite them to share their robot’s upgrades with classmates.

Ensure children who may not have access to a computer have opportunities at school to log their physical activity.

Make checking the leaderboard part of your school routine, for example as part of a weekly assembly. That way, children will be reminded to keep recording their activities. Share this information with parents and carers in your school newsletters, on your website and through your social media channels.

Set the task of creating a game or trying out one of the challenges as homework.

Use the lesson plan included with this digital pack to encourage children to make up their own games. Older pupils could then teach younger children to play the games at playtimes.

Look at creating school records for the various challenges – who can do the most star jumps in a minute? Can they beat a teacher?

Use the challenges suggested on the site as warm ups in your P.E. lessons. Share what your school is doing on social media using the hashtag

#MoveitBoom – social media resources are included on below.

What others have said about Move it Boom:“I love Move it Boom because it’s fun and keeps you active.” – Year 5 pupil at Mellor Primary School

“We’ve seen a massive increase in physical exercise at lunchtime amongst girls… Move it Boom is supporting pupils’ understanding of exercising for a lifetime.” – Tim Foster, Headteacher at Abbey Primary School in 2016

“There has been a real understanding from our pupils regarding the importance of being physically active.” – Mathew Alcock, Headteacher at Caldecote Primary School, 2016 winners

“Move it Boom is great because it will encourage children and families to be more active, and instilling these values in children at a young age will help them become more active adults." – Denise Larrad, Get Inspired Unsung Hero award winner, BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2017

Example school newsletter/parent mail article

Help us win some great playground equipment for the school!

Our school is supporting the #MoveitBoom physical activity competition for children organised by Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust. By taking part in physical activities (anything from running and swimming to dancing, skipping, ball games or yoga), children will get points for our school, helping us to be in with a chance of winning some great prizes, including some customised wooden playground equipment worth £1,000. The more activities they log, the more points we get!

Children have been given an anonymised username and password in school so that they can access the Move it Boom website (www.healthforkids.co.uk/moveitboom) and record the activity they’ve been doing. The website has some great ideas for games and challenges to keep them busy at home too! And, as they log their activities, children get to have fun building and upgrading a virtual robot. Please help your child log in at home. A letter with more information is coming home in book bags today.

Dear Parent/Carer

Encourage your child to take part in Move it Boom and win prizes for your school

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust has teamed up with local sports partners and is launching the new Move it Boom physical activity competition on Monday 5 March. We’d love you child to take part and win prizes for their school.

Move it Boom is hosted on the Health for Kids website (www.healthforkids.co.uk/moveitboom). Children record the activities they have done and earn points. As they do so, they will get to build and upgrade a virtual robot. The more physically active they are, the more advanced their robot will become, and the more points their school will receive.

Healthforkids.co.uk/moveitboom has plenty of ideas to inspire children to challenge themselves and try something new. They can even invent their own games and submit a demo film. The best films will be featured on the site.

Why your child should take partThe winning primary school will be the one with the most activities recorded when the competition closes at the end of June, and will win £1,000 wooden playground equipment donated by Red Monkey (www.redmonkeyplay.co.uk).

Other great prizes on offer include the opportunity to spend the day at Loughborough University’s Olympic training facilities, stadium tours at Leicester City Football Club, Leicestershire Cricket Club and Leicester Riders, match tickets and taster sessions in school.

Throughout the competition, your child will be able to track their school’s progress and find out if they’ve made the top 10 weekly leader board.

How does it work? Encourage your child to login to

www.healthforkids.co.uk/moveitboom. They will be given an anonymous username and asked to select their school.

On the site they’ll find ideas for each of the twelve activity categories. There are lots of suggestions to keep children active at home with minimal equipment (a great alternative to screen time) as well as things they can try at the park, at school or at a sports club.

Children then record the physical activity they have done, getting points for their school. The more activity they do, the more their robot avatar is upgraded.

We’ll be sharing more information throughout the competition on our social media accounts:

Twitter @LPTnhs @HealthyTogethr

Facebook /LPTnhs /LPTHealthyTogether

Share what you’re doing as a family using the hashtag #MoveitBoom

Example social media posts to support participation in #MoveitBoom

Throughout the competition, we’ll be posting on the @HealthyTogether and @LPTnhs Twitter pages, and on Facebook /LPTnhs and /LPTHealthyTogether, so follow us there for regular updates and to connect with what other schools are doing.

Share how your pupils are having fun with #MoveitBoom, and encourage the support of your wider school community by posting updates on your social media channels too. Tag @LPTnhs or @HealthyTogethr if you like, and definitely use the hashtag #MoveitBoom so we can like and share your posts!

Here are some examples you could adapt:

#MoveitBoom, the physical activity competition for kids, launches today, and we’re taking part! Visit www.healthforkids.co.uk/moveitboom for lots of ideas for fun ways to get kids moving.

Getting physically active is a great way to upgrade your mood! Children taking part in the #MoveitBoom challenge build a virtual robot. The more they move, the more upgrades their robot gets too! Find out more at www.healthforkids.co.uk/moveitboom

We want to win this fantastic playground equipment for our school from Red Monkey Play! We can do it if we get our pupils logging their physical activities on the #MoveitBoom website www.healthforkids.co.uk/moveitboom

Next time the kids are stuck inside on a rainy weekend, they’ll find lots of ideas for inventing games and trying new challenges on the #MoveitBoom website www.healthforkids.co.uk/moveitboom The more activities they do, the more points they get for our school!

Watch Tyler Bernardini from Leicester Riders try to beat the world record for the number of ping pong balls he can throw into a cup: https://youtu.be/zjiRlxNrUJ0 Lots of other activity ideas and challenges (including world records to attempt) on the #MoveitBoom website www.healthforkids.co.uk/moveitboom

Our school’s number XXX on the #MoveitBoom leaderboard! Well done everyone. Let’s keep up the momentum – children don’t forget to log your physical activities at www.healthforkids.co.uk/moveitboom

How’s your #MoveitBoom robot looking? Remember, the more physical activities you log at www.healthforkids.co.uk/moveitboom, the more robot upgrades you get (and the closer our school gets to winning some great prizes!)

Move it Boom 2018 Competition: Terms and Conditions

Move it Boom is a physical activity competition for primary school children, hosted from the Health for Kids website (www.healthforkids.co.uk/moveitboom) and administered by Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust.

Children record the physical activities they have completed between the start of the competition (Monday 5 March 2018) and the competition closing (Friday 29 June 2018) online using an anonymised username and password. The activities they log count towards their school’s total.

Schools have been informed that the activities logged will be monitored throughout the competition, and should there be a suspiciously high number recorded for one username, those activities will be removed and the school will be notified.

Once again, we have teamed up with our local sports partners to offer some great prizes. Schools have received full details of the prizes via the digital schools pack emailed to them in advance of the launch of the competition.

The prizes are as follows: First prize (for the school with the most activities logged at the close of the

competition): Wooden playground equipment worth £1,000 donated by local play specialists Red Monkey (www.redmonkeyplay.co.uk). This can be adapted to suit the school environment in discussion with Red Monkey. Please see point 3 below. Plus, a sporting experience day at the world-renowned Olympic training facilities at Loughborough University for a class of children.

Second prize (for the school with the second highest number of activities logged at the close of the competition): A tour of the Leicester Riders stadium for a group of children, plus a basketball taster session at school, provided by Leicester Riders Basketball Club.

Third prize (for the school with the third highest number of activities logged at the close of the competition): A cricket taster session in school, plus 30 complimentary children’s T20 tickets for a home game in July, provided by Leicestershire County Cricket Club.

Fourth prize (for the school with the fourth highest number of activities logged at the close of the competition): A tour of the Leicester Tigers stadium, plus rugby taster sessions, provided by Leicester Tigers Rugby Club.

Fifth prize (for the school with the fifth highest number of activities logged at the close of the competition): Four football taster sessions in school provided by the Progressive Skills Academy.

An additional prize is available for the best game demonstration video submitted during the competition: A tour of the King Power stadium and tickets to an Under 23s match, provided by Leicester City Football Club. Children are encouraged to film their demonstration video with support from an adult. Videos will only be featured on the Move it Boom website providing signed photographic permission forms have been received by the communications team at Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust.

1. The Move it Boom competition has been organised by Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, head office: Riverside House, Bridge Park Plaza, Bridge Park Road, Thurmaston, Leicester, LE4 8PQ.

2. The competition is open to pupils at mainstream primary schools in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland via the website: www.healthforkids.co.uk/moveitboom

3. It is also open to pupils of primary school age who are resident in Leicester, Leicestershire or Rutland, and who are home schooled, again via the website www.healthforkids.co.uk/moveitboom. When choosing their ‘school’ from the drop-down list on the website, they should choose ‘home schooled’. The prizes listed above are eligible to home schooled pupils as a collective group, with the exception of the playground equipment from Red Monkey. In the event that the ‘home schooled’ group tops the leaderboard at the close of the competition, the playground equipment will be offered to the school in second place.

4. There is no entry fee necessary to enter this competition.5. By entering this competition, and logging physical activities on the Move it

Boom website, an entrant is indicating his/her agreement to be bound by these terms and conditions.

6. The competition will close at 5pm on Friday 29 June 2018. After this date and time, no further activities logged will be counted.

7. Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust reserves the right to cancel or amend the competition and these terms and conditions without notice if circumstances arise outside of its control. Any changes to the competition will be notified to entrants as soon as possible via the webpage www.healthforkids.co.uk/moveitboom

8. Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust is not responsible for inaccurate prize details supplied by any third party connected with this competition.

9. The prizes are as stated on the above and may be subject to change at our discretion.

10.The prizes are as stated and no cash or other alternatives will be offered. The prizes are not transferable. Prizes are subject to availability and we reserve the right to substitute any prize with another of equivalent value without giving notice.

11.The winning game demonstration video will be selected by a panel of judges including staff from Leicestershire Partnership Trust and representatives of our sports partners. The winning video will be judged on the quality of the game itself and its appeal to other children, and not on the quality of the filming.

12.All prize winners will be notified on or before Friday 6 July by Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust. The Trust will provide details of how the winner can claim their prize.

13. In respect of all matters to do with the competition, Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust’s decision will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.

14.The competition and these terms and conditions will be governed by English law and any disputes will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.

15.Entry into the competition will be deemed as acceptance of these terms and conditions.

16.This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook, Twitter or any other social network.