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Ready Sett Go – Durham County Council
Ready, Sett Go is a free physical development programme for nurseries and school reception classes. It’s a 10 week programme that uses physical activity and play to develop children’s fine and gross motor skills (large and small muscle movements). These skills are important for a child’s fundamental movements but also contribute to a wider range of developments such as writing and communication.
The challenge
Childhood obesity, inactivity levels in children and poor fine and gross motor skills in county Durham.
There are 26.1 per cent of children aged four to five years and 39.9 per cent of children aged 10 to 11 years experiencing overweight or obesity. A higher than England and North East averages.
Overweight including obesity (OW/OB) is highest in children living in the most deprived areas: Reception aged four to five years: 26.7 per cent of children living in the most deprived areas experiencing OW/OB compared to 12.7 per cent in the least deprived. Year 6 aged 10 to 11 years: 44.2 per cent of children living in the most deprived areas experiencing OW/OB compared to 23.9 per cent in the least deprived.
31.7 per cent of children and young people are active for less than 30 minutes a day. This increases to 37 per cent for those children and young people living in our most deprived areas, in comparison it decreases to 27.7 per cent for those living in our least deprived areas
The solution
Ready Sett Go is a 10 week physical activity programme aimed at improving children's physical literacy through a range of fun fundamental movement skills and activities. Practitioners attend a CPD session and settings will be given a kit bag to support the sustainability of the programme after the 10 week period.
The impact
100 staff mentored and trained on the program in nurseries and reception classes per year, £500 bag of sport and physical activity kit left at each setting. Targeting the most deprived communities and inviting parents in for a celebration event to see what the children have been doing.
How is the new approach being sustained?:
Family activity cards sent home with the parents and a new healthy eating session incorporated.
Lessons learned
Including the families in the project has been brilliant, we have recently created a children’s book and some new resources to continually try and engage different children in different styles, using bubble machines and more props within the game to link the story to the games. Each setting gets to keep the book and resource cards.