Active Schools East Ayrshire

The aim of the Active Schools network is to offer all children and young people opportunities and motivation to adopt active, healthy lifestyles, now and into adulthood. These opportunities are available before, during and after school, as well as in the wider community.

Active Schools aims to introduce more physical activity into children's daily lives through active travel, play and dance. Active Schools is a key element of the Scottish Government’s commitment outlined in the National Physical Activity Strategy, Let’s Make Scotland More Active.

The National Strategy for Sport, Reaching Higher, highlights Active Schools as one of the key successes of Sport 21 (the previous national strategy). The Active Schools Network has an important role in realising the vision laid out within Reaching Higher. Active Schools also makes a major contribution to the actions laid out for local authorities in this strategy.

Active Schools contributes to the aims of other initiatives:

National Priorities for Education, Community, Learning and Leisure
Curriculum for Excellence
How Good is Our School
How Good is Our Community Learning and Development
Health Promoting Schools
Schools (Health Promotion and Nutrition) Bill
Local Community Planning
Integrated Children’s Services
East Ayrshire Leisure and Cultural Strategy
Active Schools supports the concept of physical literacy, aiming to see young people engaged in an active lifestyle. Schools have a major role to play, becoming hubs for delivering a varied programme of activities.

Active Schools builds links in the community, allowing pupils to continue developing their sporting experience outside school. This may be as simple as continuing to play a sport socially, or it may result in more serious participation, developing through club structures into competitive sport.

Key outcomes for Active Schools will be to increase activity amongst:

girls and young women
black, minority and ethnic young people
young people in communities where socio-economic disadvantage is prevalent
young people who do not currently participate in physical activity
young people with a disability

** East Ayrshire Council Facebook Page Policy**

To ensure that our Facebook page remains a clear, useful and enjoyable resource for everyone, we have established the following policies:

**Bullying behaviour**

We welcome and will engage in constructive discussion and criticism, but we will not tolerate any form of aggressive or bullying behaviour on our page towards our staff or other users. If any member of our page feels that they are being bullied via the page, please contact us at digital@east-ayrshire.gov.uk

Examples of bullying behaviour can include:
* Derogatory remarks
* Rude or aggressive posts or comments
* Insensitive jokes and pranks
* Insulting or aggressive behaviour
* Inappropriate public criticism

If aggressive behaviour or bullying persists after a private warning, we will remove any offending posts or comments and report such behaviour to Facebook. This behaviour may also result in a permanent ban from our page. We will not tolerate any discrimination against anyone on the grounds of their race, colour, nationality, religion, ethnic or national origins, sexual orientation, disability or age.

**Moderation**

We reserve the right to remove content posted on the wall at our discretion. We will also not accept repetitive posts or posts that we consider not to be relevant in the context of the page (spamming).

We will delete posts which infringe the copyright of third-party websites (by posting an entire news article, for example). We will also remove comments which stray to a considerable degree off-topic, in order to ensure a proper discussion can take place on a given subject.

We will not participate, encourage or condone any behaviour that is illegal, dangerous or offensive to other people and we will remove links to websites or other sites that express views counter to what East Ayrshire Council is trying to achieve or which go beyond the boundaries of normal debate by being offensively derogatory. If this behaviour persists after a warning then we reserve the right to ban individuals from the page.

We apologise to the few people who may not meet criteria for having their contributions published – it’s not personal but our main aim is to have discussions without anyone feeling that they are being attacked. If your comment has not been published please consider these points and resubmit your comment respecting these guidelines. Please do not post personal details including address or PIN number on the Facebook page.

**Photography**

Consent is gathered for all images used on this Facebook page. If you would like us to remove an image of yourself or a family member please email activeschools@east-ayrshire.gov.uk.