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COUNTY (LEVEL 3) EVALUATION REPORT

2012 – 2013

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CONTENTS

Sections Page

Numbers

Foreword 1

Introduction 1

Find out more information 1

Contact Us 1

1.0 PROGRESS AGAINST MINIMUM FESTIVAL CRITERIA 2

1.1 The duration of the Sainsbury’s School Games Festivals 2

1.2 The number of sports delivered 2

1.3 The number of young people participating 3

1.4 The number of volunteers engaged 5

1.5 The number of schools engaged 6

1.6 Suggested areas of improvement around the minimum festival criteria 6

2.0 PARTICIPANTS’ QUESTIONNARES FEEDBACK 7

2.1 The number of respondents 7

2.2 Responses reporting participants’ enjoyment factor 7

2.3 Percentage of participants’ who reported they felt safe and well looked after 8

2.4 Participants’ reporting to have taken part in previous competitions 8

2.5 Responses of what participants’ enjoyed the most 8

2.6 Responses of what participants’ liked the least 9

2.7 Responses of whether respondents go to a sports club outside of school 9

2.8 Responses of whether respondents would like to continue in competitive sport 9

2.9 Suggested areas of improvement based on Participant Questionnaire Feedback

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3.0 EVENT STAFF AND VOLUNTEER SURVEY DATA 12

3.1 Breakdown of Survey Respondents 12

3.2 Qualification to Level 3 Competitions 13

3.3 Feedback on the quality of the event 14

3.4 Suggested areas of improvement based on Event Staff and Volunteer Survey Data

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Appendix A – Participant figures forLevel 3 Cumbria School Games Festivals 16

Appendix B – Questionnaire responses of what participants’ enjoyed the most 17

Appendix C – Questionnaire responses of what participants’ didn’t like 18

Appendix D – Event Staff and Volunteer Survey Responses for Spring Events 19

Appendix E – Event Staff and Volunteer Survey Responses for Summer Events 20

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FOREWARD This document is to provide the Cumbria School Games Local Organising Committee (LOC) members and wider local stakeholders with an overview of the evaluation of the Cumbria School Games Level 3 programme in 2012-2013. This evaluation, which includes a focus on the County Level (Level 3) of the School Games, analyses key data collected from schools, participants, event staff and volunteers and other key stakeholders. INTRODUCTION The primary role of the Cumbria LOC is to plan and deliver a high quality Sainsbury’s School Games Festival (as set out in the Quality Standards Section within the Local Organising Committee Guidance Edition 2). In addition to this the Cumbria LOC is also responsible for

• Ensuring that the County (Level 3) Festivals are linked to intra (Level 2) and inter-school (Level 2) School Games competitions.

• Ensuring the Sainsbury’s School Games Festival criteria are being successfully achieved.

• Ensuring that the Sainsbury’s School Games Festival achieves broader educational outcomes (i.e. through cultural activities, leadership and volunteering opportunities and competitions in other curriculum subjects).

• Using the Sainsbury’s School Games and its underlying values as a vehicle to engage and drive whole-school change across a county area.

• Supporting the recruitment of more school into the Sainsbury’s School Games at Level 1 and helps them to be active on the School Games website.

• Harnessing the legacy of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and to use the Sainsbury’s School Games a vehicle to inspire more young people to participate in competitive school sport across the county.

Active Cumbria; the Sport and Physical Activity Partnership are the Lead Applicant for the funding received for the Cumbria LOC from Sport England. On behalf of the Cumbria LOC, Active Cumbria has used monitoring information and carried out this evaluation of this year’s Level 3 Festivals to provide learning for development in 2013-2014. In response to the evaluation findings some suggestions of priorities for action have been recommended for the Cumbria LOC to consider at the end of each section of this report. FIND OUT MORE INFORMATION If you would like to find out more information about this year’s Cumbria School Games or would like to get involved in 2013 – 2014 you can find useful information and resources on our website. Visit www.activecumbria.org/developing-sport/events/cumbria-school-games/ CONTACT US If you require any support, advice or guidance in relation to anything included in this document please contact: Becky Underwood Development Officer T: 01228 221361 M: 07717586430 Email: becky.underwood@cumbria.gov.uk

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1.0 PROGRESS AGAINST MINIMUM FESTIVAL CRITERIA

1.1 The duration of the Sainsbury’s School Games Festivals

In 2012 – 2013 the Cumbria LOC planned and delivered 4 County (Level 3) School Games Festivals as follows SPRING TERM EVENTS

• Cumbria Sportshall Primary Athletics Final on 26th March 2013 at Penrith Leisure Centre.

• Cumbria Key Step Gymnastics Finals on 27th March 2013 at Penrith Leisure Centre. SUMMER TERM EVENTS

• Cumbria Schools Athletics Association County Yr 7 Championships on 2nd July 2013 at Copeland Athletics Stadium.

• Cumbria Multisport Festival on 4th July 2013 at various venues across Carlisle.

1.2 The number of sports delivered It is a requirement of the LOC to deliver a minimum of eight sports each year, including five with a disability format all of which adhere to the Sainsbury’s School Games National Governing Bodies of Sport (NGBs) formats.

The below table (1) highlights that the Cumbria LOC have exceeded the minimum requirements and delivered 11 Sports, including five with a disability format. All but one format (Hockey) adheres to the required format recommended by the NGB. Table 1: NGB sports and formats delivered in the Cumbria School Games.

Sports Formats

NGB Recommended

Format Type of Event

Athletics

English Schools Track & Field Championships *

YES Stand Alone Event

Sporthall Athletics YES Stand Alone Event

Boccia Boccia Open Age Group* YES Summer Festival

Football Pan Disability Football U 16 Boys & Girls*

YES Summer Festival

Golf Tri Golf Skills YES Summer Festival

Gymnastics Key Steps Gymnastics YES Stand Alone Event

Hockey Quicksticks Festival NO Summer Festival

Netball High 5 YES Summer Festival

Orienteering Team Score Competition YES Summer Festival

Table Cricket Table Cricket – Team* YES Summer Festival

Table Tennis 4-a-side Team Challenge* YES Summer Festival

Tennis Mini Tennis Red YES Summer Festival *disability/inclusive sport format

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1.3 The number of young people participating It is a responsibility of the Cumbria LOC to ensure that the sports selected in the competition programme are sufficient enough to meet the needs of all schools and age groups in Cumbria. Quantative data has been collected on the participants’ who attended and competed in the Cumbria Level 3 School Games Festivals in 2012 - 2013 (See Appendix A). Table 2 highlights that some of the sports competitions delivered attracted the full expected number of participants’ and others didn’t. Sporthall Athletics, Tri Golf, Quicksticks Hockey, High Five Netball and Orienteering all had 100% attendance of expected participants. Year 7 Athletics, Team Table Cricket and Pan Disability Football had the lowest rate of engagement of expected participants’. Overall approximately 82% of the expected participants’ attended and competed within the Level 3 Festivals in 2013. Table 2: Breakdown of Participants’ by Sport Format

Competition No of max capacity for participants’

Actual Participants’

% attended from max no’s

Yr. 7 Inclusive Athletics 348 200 57.5%

Sportshall Athletics 144 144 100%

Boccia 12s 36 34 94%

Pan Disability Football 48 33 68.7%

Tri Golf Skills 120 120 100%

Key Step Gymnastics 252 209 82.9%

Quicksticks Hockey 72 72 100%

High 5 42 42 100%

Team Score Orienteering 72 72 100%

Team Table Cricket 48 30 62.5%

4-a-side Team Table Tennis Challenge 36 30 83.3%

Mini Tennis Red 96 88 91.7%

Totals 1314 1074 81.7%

The Cumbria LOC has a responsibility to deliver an open and fair competition programme which provides an equal split in the level of competition between both male and female pupils. Data in table 3 demonstrates that there is an approximate equal gender split for all participants’ engaged in Level 3 Festivals with 46% of all participants’ being males and 54% of all participants’ being females. However, there appears to be a unbalanced representation of genders within each year group, in particular females dominate participation figures in Years 1 to 3 which then follows with an equal gender split in years 4 to 8 followed by Males dominating participation figures in years 9 to 13. In addition to ensuring a fair gender split the Cumbria LOC also strives to deliver a competition programme that provides an equal split in the level of competition between primary and secondary aged pupils. Table 3 demonstrates that the largest proportion of participants’ engaged in Level 3 events were 62.9% of all participants’ being from Key Stage 2 which is significantly higher than any other Key Stage. It is also apparent that the competition programme currently provides for a significantly larger proportion of Primary aged pupils (69.6%) than Secondary aged pupils (30.4%).

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Table 3: Breakdown of Participants’ by Age group and Gender

Year

Group No

Males %

Males No

Females % of

Females Total No’s

% by Year

Group

% by Key

Stage

% by School Sector

KS1 Year 1 1 9% 10 91% 11 1.0% 6.6%%

Primary 69.6% Year 2 10 17% 50 83% 60 5.6%

KS2 Year 3 22 34% 43 66% 65 6.1% 62.9%

Year 4 98 42% 133 58% 231 21.5%

Year 5 65 47% 74 53% 139 13.0%

Year 6 105 44% 136 56% 241 22.4%

KS3 Year 7 115 53% 102 47% 217 20.2% 26.1% Secondary 30.4% Year 8 22 56% 17 44% 39 3.6%

Year 9 17 71% 7 29% 24 2.2%

KS4 Year 10 13 87% 2 13% 15 1.4% 2.0%

Year 11 5 83% 1 17% 6 0.6%

KS5 Year 12 12 71% 5 29% 17 1.6% 2.4%

Year 13 8 89% 1 11% 9 0.8%

TOTALS 493 46% 581 54% 1074 100% 100% 100%

The Cumbria LOC has a responsibility to ensure that the Level 3 Festivals are fully inclusive and equitable for all young people. In response to this the Cumbria LOC agreed to include 5 sports with a disability format to ensure that the competition programme was fully inclusive for young people with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND). Table 4 below demonstrates that 14.4% of all Level 3 participants’ are a SEND participant which highly exceeds the proportion of pupils with SEND in Schools (2.8%). Table 4: Breakdown of SEND Participants’

Competition Total No of Participants’

Total No of SEND Participants’

% SEND Participants’

Yr. 7 Inclusive Athletics 200 22 11%

Sportshall Athletics 144 0 0%

Boccia 12s 34 34 100%

Pan Disability Football 33 33 100%

Tri Golf Skills 120 4 3%

Key Step Gymnastics 209 0 0%

Quicksticks Hockey 72 0 0%

High 5 42 0 0%

Team Score Orienteering 72 2 3%

Team Table Cricket 30 30 100%

4-a-side Team Table Tennis Challenge 30 30 100%

Mini Tennis Red 88 0 0%

Totals 1074 155 14.4%

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1.4 The number of volunteers’ engaged The Cumbria LOC engaged with National Governing Bodies of Sport (NGBs) and local School Games Organisers (SGOs) to train and support the workforce who would support and deliver the Level 3 Festivals. Training was provided to young people and adult volunteers’ in each sport to ensure that they were confident and able to officiate properly as well as offering training to other event staff. (Table 5)

Table 6 below demonstrates that in total 297 volunteers’ were engaged in supporting the Level 3 Festivals, 65% of which were Young People who had received training. This exceeds the minimum requirement of 50% of the workforce needing to be under 18 years of age. Figures also highlight that there are very few SEND volunteers’ engaged in the Level 3 Workforce. In 2013 only 3 adults with SEND were involved in volunteering at the events. No young SEND volunteers’ were engaged at any of the Level 3 Festivals. Table 5: Breakdown of number of young people provided with training to support the delivery of Level 3 Festivals

Sport No of young people provided with training

Gymnastics 28 judges trained for Key Steps Gymnastics Finals in March 2013

Sportshall Athletics

20 young leaders trained and used at the Primary Sportshall Athletics Final in March 2013.

Hockey 16 young leaders trained from Kirkby Stephen School to the Multisport Festival in July 2013

Netball 15 trained young leaders from Copeland schools used the Multisport Festival in July 2013

Tennis 24 trained young leaders from Allerdale & Carlisle areas used at the Multisport Festival in July 2013

Orienteering 16 trained young leaders from Caldew School used at the Multisport Festival in July 2013

Tri-Golf 26 trained young leaders from Furness area used at the Multisport Festival in July 2013

Pan Disability Football

4 young leaders from Lakes College West Cumbria supported the Multisport Festival in July 2013 and attended Level 1 coaching course

Boccia 12 Young Leaders have completed training and attended to support the Multisport Festival in July 2013

Table Tennis 11 young leaders from South Lakes Schools were trained and supported both Table Cricket and Table Tennis Events between them at the Multisport Festival in July 2013

Table Cricket 2 volunteers from South Lakes were trained and supported the Multisport Festival in July 2013, along with Table Tennis volunteers as above

Y7 Athletics 16 trained young leaders were used at this Yr. 7 Athletics Championships in July 2013.

Totals 190 young people trained to support delivery of Level 3 Festivals

Table 6: Breakdown of workforce by age and ability.

Events Total No of Adult

vols.

Total No of SEND

adult vols.

Total No of young

vols under 18

Total No of young SEND vols

Total No of Volunteers

No attended volunteer training

Spring Festivals 33 0 45 0 78 45

Summer Festivals 70 3 149 0 219 151

Totals 103 3 194 0 297 196

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1.5 The number of schools’ engaged The Cumbria LOC has a responsibility to ensure that primary, secondary and special schools’ in both independent and state sectors have access to the Cumbria School Games. Table 7 shows there’s a much greater engagement from state primary schools than any other type of school in Cumbria. Table 7: Breakdown of schools’ engaged by type of school

Primary Secondary

Independent Primary

Independent Secondary

Special Schools

FE Totals

Spring Festivals

36 2 2 0 0 1 41

Summer Festivals

51 29 1 2 2 1 86

1.6 Suggested areas of improvement around the minimum festival criteria

Highlight / Issue Suggested Action

Quicksticks Hockey Format is not included in the School Games Formats identified by England Hockey

Competiton Sub Group to liase with England Hockey to confirm with NGB that it is appropriate to deliver Quicksticks Format or agree alternative format for 2013 – 2014.

Some competitions did not attract full teams which meant fewer participants competed than expected. (This can be costly to the LOC)

Cumbria LOC to liase with Lead Sport Officers and SGOs to identify ways of increasing attendance in those sports in 2014.

Gender split of participants is higher for females in years 1 to 3 and higher for males in years 9 to 13.

Cumbria LOC to discuss potential ways of addressing gender imbalance in identified year groups.

The competition programme currently engages a significantly higher proportion of Primary aged participants than Secondary aged participants

Cumbria LOC to discuss potential ways of offering a more equally balanced offer to both Primary and Secondary aged pupils.

There are very low no of SEND volunteers engaged within the adult and young person’s volunteer workforce

Cumbria LOC to liaise with Disability Sport Rep/Project Ability School look at making the volunteering opportunities more accessible and inclusive.

There is a significantly higher proportion of Primary State Schools engaged in the Cumbria School Games with very few Special, and Independent Schools involved.

Education Sub Group to review how to increase engagement from Special, Secondary and Independent Schools.

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2.0 PARTICIPANT QUESTIONNAIRES FEEDBACK

The Cumbria LOC is committed to providing a high quality and meaningful competitive experience to young people across Cumbria. Consultation was carried out in the form of participant questionnaires’ with all young people who competed in this year’s Level 3 festivals’ to ensure that needs of participants’ are considered in the planning and deliver of future events. Three different questionnaires’ were designed and completed by participants’. Each questionnaire had similar questions however the questions in each questionnaire were designed to be suitable to the audience. The questionnaires offered included:

• Primary aged Participant Questionnaire

• Secondary aged Participant Questionnaire

• Access to Sport Questionnaire (for SEND participants)

This section highlights the key findings of the Participant Questionnaires’ and identifies recommendations for future events based on young participants’ feedback. 2.1 The number of respondents

Table 8 below identifies that 44.7% of all participants’ completed questionnaires’. The highest response to the questionnaires’ was at the Sporthall Athletics Final with 92% of all participants’ completing the questionnaire followed with 67% of participants’ at the Key Steps Gymnastics Finals. The Multisport Festival and Yr. 7 Athletics Event had much lower responses which could be improved next year. Table 8: Breakdown of Participant Respondents by type of Questionnaire.

Primary

Questionnaire Secondary

Questionnaire Access to Sport Questionnaire

Response % of Total Participants

Sportshall Athletics Event

133 0 0 92%

Key Steps Gymnastics Event

141 0 0 67%

Multisport Event

85 0 56 29%

Year 7 Athletics Event

0 64 2 33%

Totals 359 64 58 44.7%

2.2 Responses reporting participant enjoyment factor

All three questionnaires’ asked participants if they enjoyed taking part in their events. Table 9 shows that 93% of all respondents reported to have enjoyed taking part in their events. No respondents reported ‘not’ enjoying the events. Table 9: Percentage of respondents who reported that they enjoyed taking part in the events.

Type of Questionnaire

Yes they enjoyed the

event

No they didn’t enjoy the event

Other response (E.g. Don’t Know, No Response etc.)

Primary Questionnaire

86% 0% 14%

Secondary Questionnaire

100% 0% 0%

Access to Sport Questionnaire

93% 0% 7%

Totals 93% 0% 7%

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2.3 Percentage of participants’ who reported they felt safe and well looked after

All three questionnaires’ included a question asking participants’ if they felt safe and well looked after during the events. Table 10 below shows that 96% of all respondents reported they felt safe and well looked after, whilst only 1% stated that they didn’t. The other 3% of respondents either were unsure or skipped the question. Table 10: Percentage of respondents’ who reported that they felt safe and well looked after.

Type of Questionnaire Yes they felt safe and well looked

after

No they didn’t feel safe and

well looked after

Other response (E.g. Don’t Know, No Response etc.)

Primary Questionnaire 97% 1% 2%

Secondary Questionnaire 97% 2% 1%

Access to Sport Questionnaire 93% 0% 7%

Totals 96% 1% 3%

2.4 Participants’ reporting to have taken part in previous competitions

In both the Primary and Secondary aged participant questionnaires’, participants’ were asked if before taking part in their event, they had ever taken part in any other sports competitions’. (See Table 11). 2% of respondents reported that they had not taken part in any other sports competitions’ prior to their event. Of the 98% of respondents who reported they had, 77.5% had taken part in a competition at their own school, 46% had taken part in a competition at other schools and 46.5% of respondents had taken part in a competition within a club. Table 11: Percentage of respondents who reported they had taken part in a competition before their event.

Type of Questionnaire

No Yes – At School

Yes – At other Schools

Yes – for a Club

Other or No response

Primary 4% 69% 37% 48% 0%

Secondary 0% 86% 55% 45% 0%

Total (Average %) 2% 77.5% 46% 46.5% 0%

2.5 Responses of what participants enjoyed the most

In all questionnaires’ participants’ were asked what they enjoyed the most. Table 12 below shows that large proportion of respondents reported that Taking Part was the thing that participants’ enjoyed the most. See Appendix B for the other responses that participants’ highlighted. Table 12: Percentage of respondents’ by what they enjoyed the most

Response Primary

Questionnaire Secondary

Questionnaire Access to Sport Questionnaire

Total (Average %)

Winning 5% 1% 2% 2.7%

Being with friends 13% 17% 2% 10.7%

Family and friends watching 2% 0% 0% 0.7%

Meeting new people 6% 6% 9% 7.1%

Having a day out of school 20% 17% 1% 12.7%

Ceremonies 1% 5% 2% 2.7%

Taking part 49% 44% 9% 34.1%

Other 2% 5% 66% 24%

Skipped Question 2% 5% 9% 5.3%

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2.6 Responses of what participants’ liked the least In all three questionnaires’, participants’ were asked what, if anything, did they not liked about their event. Table 13 below shows that large proportion of respondents’ reported that they didn’t like sitting around waiting for their competitions to start. In addition to this almost half of all respondents stated other reasons which are highlighted in Appendix C. Table 13: Percentage of respondents by what they didn’t like the most.

Response Primary

Questionnaire Secondary

Questionnaire Access to

Sport Questionnaire

Total (Average %)

Sitting around waiting 57% 61% 6% 41%

People watching 11% 14% 0% 8%

Losing 8% 5% 0% 4%

Other 13% 19% 96% 43%

Skipped Question 12% 2% 0% 4%

2.7 Responses of whether respondents’ go to a sports club outside of school

In the Primary and Secondary questionnaires’, participants’ were asked if they take part in a physical activity/sports club outside of school. Table 14 below shows that around three quarter of both primary and secondary respondents’ reported that they attended a physical activity/sports club outside of school. Table 14: Percentage of respondents’ who reported they attended a sports club outside of school

Type of Questionnaire Yes No Skipped Question

Primary Questionnaire 74% 25% 1%

Secondary Questionnaire 69% 31% 0%

Total (Average %) 71.5% 28% 0.5%

2.8 Responses of whether respondents’ would like to continue in competitive sport

In the Primary and Secondary questionnaires’ participants were asked if they would like to continue to compete in sport after their event. Table 15 below shows that almost all respondents’ answered yes to this question. Table 16 highlights which activities respondents’ stated they would like to do in the future with Athletics, Gymnastics and Football being the activities that large proportions of respondents would like to take part in. Table 15: Percentage of respondents who reported they would like to continue in competitive sport.

Type of Questionnaire Yes No Skipped Question

Primary Questionnaire 98% 1% 1%

Secondary Questionnaire 92% 0% 8%

Total (Average %) 95% 0.5% 4.5%

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Table 16: Responses of what activities respondents’ would like to do in the future

Sport No of Respondents % Total Respondents

Anything 13 3%

Athletics 121 28.6%

Badminton 1 0.2%

Baseball 1 0.2%

Basketball 7 1.6%

Cheerleading 2 0.5%

Climbing 2 0.4%

Cricket 3 0.6%

Cross Country 1 0.2%

Cycling 2 0.4%

Dance 12 2.8%

Fishing 1 0.2%

Football 57 13.5%

Golf 3 0.6%

Gymnastics 71 17.5%

Handball 1 0.2%

Hockey 17 4.0%

Horse Riding 4 0.8%

Judo 1 0.2%

Karate 2 0.4%

Netball 21 4.9%

Orienteering 11 2.6%

Rounder’s 2 0.4%

Rugby 7 1.6%

Skiing 1 0.2%

Swimming 25 5.9%

Table Tennis 2 0.4%

Tennis 31 7.3%

Water Polo 1 0.2%

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2.9 Suggested areas of improvement based on Participant Questionnaire Feedback

Highlight / Issue Suggested Action

Lower number of questionnaires completed at the Multisport Event and the Yr. 7 Athletics Event

Operations Sub group to identify ways of increasing questionnaire response numbers at these events.

Issues raised around vandals at the Orienteering competition during the Multisport Festival

Cumbria LOC to liaise with Workforce Sub Group and NGB to prevent issue from happening at future events. E.g. more marshals

Participants identified that they would like to play more fixtures / more playing time

Operations Sub group to identify if there is the opportunity to increase playing opportunities at future events.

Accusations of umpiring problems / cheating at Table Cricket

Cumbria LOC to liaise with Workforce Sub Group and NGB to prevent issue from happening at future events. E.g. participants and umpires understand the rules

Y7 Athletics had a wobbly podium / not accessible

Cumbria LOC and Welfare Officer to pass onto Cumbria Schools Athletics Association, alternative needed

Age appropriate teams requested for football Cumbria LOC to liase with NGB also and changed age range for 2014

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3.0 EVENT STAFF AND VOLUNTEER SURVEY DATA

As well as the Cumbria LOC being committed to providing a high quality and meaningful competitive experience to young people across Cumbria, the LOC are keen to providing a high quality experience to the young volunteers’ and adult workforce who are recruited to support and deliver the Level 3 Festivals. The Cumbria LOC designed and circulated an online post event survey to obtain feedback from event staff and volunteers on their experiences’ of the Level 3 Festivals. The survey asked respondents’ to feedback their comments on their experience of the Level 3 festivals, to ensure the needs of the workforce are considered in the planning and deliver of future events. This section highlights the key findings of the Event Staff and Volunteer Survey and identifies recommendations for future events based on the survey feedback. 3.1 Breakdown of Survey Respondents

Table 17 below identifies that a total of 85 people completed the online survey. Of these respondents the largest proportion of the workforce to complete the survey was 47% of respondents being team managers of competing school teams which is very positive (See Table 18). There is a low number (3.5%) of NGB Officer / Coach Respondents providing feedback and Young Volunteers /Officials (5.8%) which could be very useful if increased. Table 19 also highlights that there was a balanced response from the workforce across all areas of Cumbria. Table 17: Breakdown of Event Staff and Volunteer Respondents

Total No of Respondents

Spring Events 25

Summer Events 65

Totals 85

Table 18: Respondents Involvement with School Games

Spring Events Summer Events No of Responses % Response

Spectator/Supporter 2 0 2 2%

Team Manager/Staff 10 30 40 47.6%

Young Leader/Official/ Volunteer 2 3 5 5.8%

Event Staff / Volunteer 4 9 13 15.3%

NGB Officer / Coach 0 3 3 3.5%

School Games Organiser 3 4 7 8.2%

Special Guest 1 6 7 8.2%

Other 2 5 7 8.2%

Skipped Question 1 0 1 1.2%

Totals 25 65 85 100%

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Table 19: Area of Cumbria respondents represented

Spring Events

Summer Events

Total No of Responses

Response %

Allerdale 3 7 10 11.1%

Carlisle 4 13 17 18.9%

Copeland 2 11 13 14.4%

Eden 4 7 11 12.2%

South Lakes 3 7 10 11.1%

Countywide 3 8 11 12.2%

Other 1 9 10 11.2%

Skipped Question 5 3 8 8.9%

Totals 25 65 90 100%

3.2 Qualification to Level 3 Competitions The Cumbria LOC aims to ensure that competitive opportunities generated at Level 3 are built on successes from Level 1 and 2 competitions. The survey asked the workforce if they had won a local competition to qualify for the county event. This question was targeted at School Team managers to gage whether or not school teams had in fact qualified through their local school sport competition structure. Table 20 outlines that 83.3% of respondents had won their Level 2 competitions to qualify for the Level 3 event. 16.2% of respondents reported that they hadn’t won a local competition to qualify which raised questions to what was their method of selection. In response to this a review (via submitted team sheets) of the number of schools who competed at Level 3 who had qualified from a level 2 was carried out. This review shown that the Cumbria School Games Level 3 Summer events had the maximum capacity to cater for a total of 90 teams (84 at the multisport festival and 6 at the County Athletics Championships). Out of 90 teams 84 teams (93%) competed at the Level 3 events. Out of these 84 teams 76 teams (90.1%) qualified for the Level 3 event via Level 2 competitions. Of the 8 teams that competed without qualifying at Level 2 competitions were identified to represent their district through ad hoc selection. For example one of the reasons for this in one SGO area involved 2 schools being selected to compete at the Level 3 event without qualifying at a Level 2 Comp as there was no Level 2 competition in those sports due to no SGO being in post. In other instances teams were selected by default as they were the only district team entered into a Level 2 competition. Table 20: Did you win a local competition to qualify for the county event

Yes

No Not Applicable Skipped Question

Spring Events 10 1 12 0

Summer Events 21 5 34 0

Totals 31 6 46 0

% Respondents 83.8% 16.2% - -

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3.3 Feedback on the quality of the event Respondents’ were asked whether they thought the Level 3 Festival they attended was a high quality event, of which 100% of all those that answered the question agreed that Yes they rated the Cumbria School Games as a high quality event. (See Table 21) Table 21: Did you rate the Cumbria School Games as a high quality event?

Yes

No Unsure Skipped Question

Spring Events 18 0 2 5

Summer Events 52 0 0 8

Totals 70 0 2 13

% Respondents 100% 0% - -

The workforce was also asked to rate different elements of the event, which highlighted that in general all elements of the event were significantly higher rated as Good or Excellent (See Table 22). Welfare and Safety, Event Organisation and Event Staff and Volunteer Support were most highly rated. Parking and Transport, Referees and Officials and the Closing Ceremony and Medal Ceremony were the lowest rated element albeit still rated good and excellent. In addition to this Appendix D and E provide detail of additional comments / feedback that event staff and volunteers provided. Table 22: Responses when asked to rate different elements of the Level 3 event

Not

Applicable Poor - Fair Good -

Excellent Overall % Good - Excellent

Spring Sum. Spring Sum. Spring Sum.

Pre event information / Registration 3 4 2 2 17 47 94%

Parking / Transport 2 2 4 5 16 47 87.5%

Registration on arrival 4 4 0 4 18 45 94%

Opening Ceremony 6 10 1 3 15 39 93%

Referees / Officials 3 4 3 5 16 45 88.4%

Young leaders / volunteer support 3 0 2 4 17 49 91.7%

Event staff / volunteer support 4 0 1 0 17 53 98.6%

Quality of the facility and event dressing 1 0 0 2 21 52 97.3%

Event T-shirts 1 2 0 3 21 46 95.7%

Event Goody Bags 4 2 0 5 10 46 91.8%

Medals / Certificates 4 3 2 1 16 47 95.5%

The closing ceremony/Medal presentation 4 3 4 2 14 49 91.3%

Event Organisation 1 0 1 0 20 54 98.7

Welfare and Safety 2 0 0 0 20 52 100%

Overall Enjoyment 0 0 2 0 20 52 97.3%

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3.4 Suggested areas of improvement based on Event Staff and Volunteer Survey Data

Highlight / Issue Suggested Action

There is a low number (3.5%) of NGB Officer / Coach Respondents providing feedback and Young Volunteers /Officials (5.8%) which could be better.

Operations Sub group to identify ways of increasing no of respondents to survey for 2014

In most cases where teams weren’t represented at Level 3 it was in the inclusive sports competitions.

Cumbria LOC to identify ways of supporting SGOs to identify teams for inclusive sport events

Need to improve the quality of judging and scoring at Gymnastics

LOC to liaise with Cumbria Schools Gymnastics Association regards making improvements.

Ceremonies – keep child friendly entertainers, shorten speeches, need to improve Spring Event to similar standard

Cultural, Marketing and Comms group to address.

Parents / Spectators mistreating Young Officials LOC to liaise with Workforce Sub Group to identify protocols with preventing and managing such behaviour. Eg YST training covers this eventuality, it was not delivered to all Young Leaders in 2013

Sainsbury’s branding not prominent at each site Cultural, Mar Comms Sub Group to address. e.g. More banners to be purchased

Huge amount of positive feedback Cultural, Mar Comms Sub group to promote in Cumbria School Games Newsletter

Overall District winner calculation unfairly weighted

Operations Sub Group to review overall scoring calculations.

First Aid cancelled day before the multi-sport event

Welfare Officer to review

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APPENDIX A – PARTICIPANTS FIGURES FOR LEVEL 3 CUMBRIA SCHOOL GAMES FESTIVALS

Competitions in 2013

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10

Year 11

Year 12

Year 13

Total

Total no.

No. of SEND participants M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F Male Female

Key Stage 1 Key Stage 2 Key Stage 3 Key Stage 4 Key Stage 5

Yr. 7 Inclusive Athletics

93 91 10 6

103 97 200 22

Sports hall Athletics

19 19 53 53

72 72 144 0

Boccia 12s

6 6

4 6 3 3 1 1 1 2 1

18 16 34 34

Pan Disability Football

1 1 3 2 7

5

4

7

3

30 3 33 33

Tri Golf Skills 7 3 23 26 23 19 9 10

62 58 120 4

Key Step Gymnastics

1 10 10 50 5 22 6 37 7 20 4 37

33 176 209 0

Quicksticks Hockey

2 8 34 28

36 36 72 0

High 5

1 3 4 14 20

17 25 42 0

Team Score Orienteering

1

5 13 12 25 16

39 33 72 2

Team Table Cricket

8 1 5 2 4 2 1

3 3 1 21 9 30 30

4-a-side Team Table Tennis Challenge

7 3 4 3

2 4 1

3 1 2

20 10 30 30

Mini Tennis Red 7 10 35 36

42 46 88 0

TOTALS

1 10 10 50 22 43 98 133 65 74 105 136 115 102 22 17 17 7 13 2 5 1 12 5 8 1 493 581 1074 155

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APPENDIX B – QUESTIONNIARE RESPONSES OF WHAT PARTICIPANTS ENJOYED THE MOST

• I am glad to be here and would love to come again.

• Having Fun

• Mr Proud

• The Ice Cream

• Doing well

• Goody Bag

• T-Shirt and Goody Bag

• Being competitive

• Everyone was very friendly and I thought that the umpires were very fair when the games were played

• I enjoy football because it is fun

• The boccia

• Playing Boccia

• Meeting new friends

• Playing the games and meeting new people

• Playing as a team

• Playing with my mates and meeting new people

• When the person holds up the bat

• That no matter what disability you have you can take part

• That it was a fun and friendly competition

• Having fun

• Having the chance to compete against different schools

• Table tennis

• Doing the table tennis

• Just the playing

• Liked Table Tennis and open ceremony

• Having fun playing table tennis

• Playing the games

• Table Tennis

• It was fun to meet new people

• Winning 2nd

• Playing

• Playing against the red team

• Table tennis

• Playing the games

• Nice and really good

• Table tennis

• Competing against people with different disabilities

• Playing Football

• It's Fun, Good sportsmanship

• I enjoyed the sports that we were here to do

• Having Fun

• I like playing table cricket

• Everything

• Playing the game and having fun

• The Sports

• Enjoyed doing the sport

• Playing Cricket

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APPENDIX C – QUESTIONNIARE RESPONSES OF WHAT PARTICIPANTS DIDN’T LIKE

• Kids pulled out controls (Orienteering)

• Falling over (Orienteering)

• Nothing I didn’t like x 48 responses

• Beating really good friend

• Marshals pointing me in the wrong direction (Orienteering)

• Controls getting muddled (Orienteering)

• People that told me the wrong place (Orienteering)

• Being tripped up (Orienteering)

• Getting a mispunch (Orienteering)

• Being able to go to the wrong way through a forest (Orienteering)

• I enjoyed it all

• Its pressurising (Yr. 7 Athletics)

• Standing on a wobbly podium (Yr. 7 Athletics)

• Standing on Podium (Yr. 7 Athletics)

• Bad weather x 4 responses

• I would like to Practice Table Cricket a bit more

• It would be good if other activities could be set up for during the wait for a group turn

• Have more games going on at once (Boccia)

• I would like to Play more games x 2 (Football)

• Make the competition more challenging (Table Tennis)

• All Good

• Play more games and do top player tournament (Football)

• Let us do more than one event

• Better if the football teams had been the same age

• More time to make friends

• Longer Games (Football)

• Age appropriate (Football)

• Fair teams and no shin pads (Football)

• Long Bus Ride

• Hitting a ball gently and being told I was too aggressive (Table Cricket)

• Umpiring in the final games (Table Cricket)

• The umpiring in the final game (Table Cricket)

• Everything was great

• That you got confused whether or not it was your match(Table Tennis)

• No, I enjoyed the sporting activities and felt supported by staff and other players

• I didn’t like the fact that there was cheating in the play (Table Cricket)

• I am not sure

• Umpiring - Not happy about it in the final game

• Shin pads and using 18 year olds (Football)

• Using big lads and shin pads.

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APPENDIX D – EVENT STAFF AND VOLUNTEER SURVEY RESPONSES FROM SPRING EVENTS

• A very well organised event with all event staff and volunteers doing an exceptional job. Over all a very enjoyable day for all.

• Fabulous effort by all! Children will remember this event for a long time! Well done to you all! Top Class!

• As it was a County Final Event we feel that each table of judges should have had an adult moderator to oversee marking. Last time one of teams was involved in a Final, the judges were all adults.

• Ensure that an appropriate adult is overseeing results as to not have incorrect results being read out. Could the events be a morning or afternoon event, as the Sportshall event could have been done in one of the other, to save on supply costs.

• The opening/closing ceremonies were not on a par with the July event, which was very disappointing for the participants that have attended the 2011/12 Games.

• Could a sports personality attend in future?

• Medal for 1st to 3rd important and traditional.

• Transparency of scores-we have requested a score check and still not heard outcome.

• My day was spoilt by the inaccurate results. Also the scoring should not be changed without notifying us. The last 6 years scores of the top 3 gymnasts has been added for final result not the top 3 in each skill.

• It would be useful to have the teams that are travelling from further away to be competing in the later time slot so that there isn't so much of a time pressure.

• I was very disappointed with the judging of the key step competition. It was noticed by parents and a member of our school staff that they were not always watching the gymnasts. I was also disappointed at the judges were mainly from 2 areas with none from others.

• Event organisers could contact Sainsbury’s to use their car park in future events as the leisure centre car park was busy.

• Getting the team information was not long enough, Still chasing two days before the event

• Gymnastics - T-shirts to be bagged by schools not Key Steps Registration in line with programme

• Kids questionnaire for gymnastic did not have a KS1 tick box

• More guest registration forms.

• Sweat bands were a really good idea, only handing them to the participant once they had completed the questionnaire was a good move

• Sports hall Athletics ran very smoothly.

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APPENDIX E – EVENT STAFF AND VOLUNTEER SURVEY RESPONSES FROM SUMMER EVENTS Ceremonies

• The ceremonies were great and the contributions from entertainers and sporting champions added to make it fantastic.

• The seating in the stands is tight and parents should be told when entering next year that they must watch from the balcony and not take up participants seats.

• The opening Ceremony felt more like a sales pitch from the sponsors and not at all child friendly. Really poor start to what was a great event.

• I wasn’t at the opening ceremony, so can’t comment, but feel that at the closing ceremony it would have been nice if districts could have been directed by staff to sit together creating a better sense of a team.

• Sands Centre was a much better venue for opening/closing ceremonies.

• I thought the entertainment before and after the games was much more child orientated and the speeches were pleasantly short and to the point!

• Would be great to have all districts sat together at closing ceremony.

• The Basketball and football skills guys were really well received, the kids are still talking about them, brilliant.

• District teams should be sat together at the opening/closing ceremony.

• There needed to be some form of direction when teams entered the main hall (as to where to sit). Young Leaders

• More needs to be done with the young leaders next year to reiterate on-going that they do not accept any form of threatening behaviour from anyone at the event and that they are clear and what actions they must take should they have any concerns. Event team should consider something like RESPECT cards given out by the FA at football matches to parents etc. who may need to be warned.

• Code of fair play being highlighted to some parents and teachers

• Need to review YST training to all young leaders as it covers what to do when placed in a difficult situation (ask for help)

• Make it clear to NGBs that Young Official briefing happens during opening ceremony - before participants arrived (don't think this happened at tennis)

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• Have a slight concern over level of umpiring in some sports. Young Leaders didn't always know rules and as many of the youngsters play at a club level, things became a little uncomfortable at times. Some parents from one school gave one of the umpires a really hard time - girl was brill - told them very firmly that she was in charge!

• Leaders were all very clear of their role and the golf ran very smoothly with clear direction from Sport Lead Officer. Everyone knew where they should be and where to go for help etc.

• Young People from St Bees were brilliant with managing the results at the County Year 7 Athletics Event

• Many thanks for the event yesterday. The leaders (Furness Area) were fantastic, the timing of the day was fantastic Allerdale won fantastic.

• The young leaders from Caldew who supported the orienteering were excellent and I found the two girls doing the computer input and results service to be quite exceptional. They worked really hard for several hours without any complaint, understanding a new system, for them, easily, and just getting on with it! Any of the other helpers that I came into contact with were also committed and a credit to themselves and the school.

• Young leaders at the Quicksticks being challenged by parents / teachers, was extremely upsetting for a number of young leaders. Maybe there should be a procedure for issues to go direct to the Team Manager and that NO young leaders should be confronted by an adult

• Need to find somewhere to properly register and hold young leaders - possibly the Climbing Wall area. Team Selection

• I would also look at how schools are grouped. We are a very small school and we ended up in a group of very large schools and consequently we had 2 complete thrashings which completely demoralised the children. If we had been in the other group we would have had some decent games and therefore more enjoyable for the children....as a matter of interest, why is there a separate large and small schools tennis comp? I am sure it said it somewhere, but it was certainly not clear that the netball was at an outside venue.

• The orienteering competition itself was very close with quite a bit of excitement. However, one area seemed to have problems with their team and I just wonder if we are being too restrictive in the selection for the teams. A thought for next year?

• My only sadness is that the dates do not match Boccia or Table Cricket Regional Competitions. It is such a pity that they are not synchronised?

• A number of small schools were asking if the Level 3 events could include a small schools option

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Event Logistics

• I look forward to seeing the events next year

• Fantastic day really enjoyable for everyone

• Think it's important to have and Active Cumbria team member as Site Manager, to oversee things and for trips to A&E etc

• Orienteering - marquee wasn't up first thing in the morning to leave things like water and the site box (inc. camera registration forms) just need to think how to solve this next year.

• It would have been nice for the students / pupils to receive their team t-shirts prior to the event.

• Overall though the whole day was excellent. The children all enjoyed a High Quality competition and that is all that matters.

• Details of timetable need to come out much earlier.

• A great day very enjoyable, and Excellent in every way. Well done you are a credit to the people of Cumbria.

• Superb from start to finish. What a real pleasure to be part of it! Parents were very impressed!

• Could we please have the big banners that say Sainsbury’s next year, the banners around the sheepmount (and there were many) only had Cumbria School Games, with a big GAP in the top box that I think should have had Sainsbury's.

• The Games were excellent and look forward to hopefully representing Sainsbury’s again next year Thanks you

• Overall a good day I would happily be a part of again

• We had a very enjoyable day where team spirit was very much at the forefront. Thank you

• This was the first time children from our small rural school had attended - they thoroughly enjoyed the whole day!

• We really enjoyed the day. Thank You

• The pupils from Trinity loved taking part in the events and I thoroughly enjoyed them too. Always let us know when events are happening and if you need support. You guys have done a superb job during this school year. Thank you all very much.

• Just wanted to say a really big ‘thank you’ to you and to all the other staff who ran the Cumbria games yesterday. We had a splendid day and it was really great for my pupils to compete at their own level.

• Just a quick thank you for being a major part of the team who enabled our children to have such a fantastic day - they just loved it and insisted on changing into their Copeland t shirts at the end of Sports day on Friday to show themselves off to the parents. The matches, the goodie bags, the noise and number of people at the Sands Centre all contributed to the experience for our very rural hockey players!

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• I thought the organisation was spot on - just the right amount of pre info and the entertainment at beginning and end went down a treat. Our coach was bang on time and the driver out of this world (I've always found Brownriggs to be very professional).

• Lots of people commented on the improved sizes of t-shirts, and we much prefer the new Eden colour!

• Scoring system, why are the gymnastics and athletics events so weighted that the main day’s winners are not reflected as overall winners.

• I had a great day and thought the event was very smooth, well organised and a fantastic experience for our young people.

• Front row of the seating for spectators should be "user friendly" for wheelchair users, to make them feel integrated.

• District t shirts need to be given out prior to the event.

• No camera registration forms at all of the sites.

• Beth from the Bitts café was fantastic…what a great help and the whole day was a lovely atmosphere! Please can you pass on my thanks!

• Events appeared to run very smoothly and I enjoyed my day.

• On behalf of the young people of Mayfield who attended the recent Cumbria School Games can I thank you and all your team, young leaders ( especially the Lakes College/Stainburn students who looked after the football and who were brilliant) and SGO’s for a wonderful day. The atmosphere was superb and our young people had a fantastic time. Well done.

• First Aid – let down last minute by St John’s Ambulance

• 2 Tables needs at Bitts and 2 chairs

• Furness Bus really impressed – send thankyou Sport Specific

• More adult marshals may be needed at orienteering to stop members of the public destroying equipment and upsetting participants

• A Copeland orienteering participant stopped to help Furness participant who injured himself, I'm still trying to track this boy down for fair play / well done certificate.

• Would love a 5/6 Hockey competition - children now have the hockey 'bug' but there is no competition next year for them to progress onto. Other comments about the hockey competition have already been sent

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• Leaders were all very clear of their role and the golf ran very smoothly with clear direction from Sport Lead Officer. Everyone knew where they should be and where to go for help etc.

• Young People from St Bees were brilliant with managing the results at the County Year 7 Athletics Event

• A very successful orienteering event at Hammonds Pond. We just made it in time, but were under pressure all the time to get the competition completed. The schedule was certainly tight!

• Three youths rather spoiled the orienteering finals by vandalising several control sites during the changeover period during lunch. The police were called and event staff did manage to replace controls but unfortunately suffered a significant financial loss with the destruction (!!) of three control sites.

• The Orienteering competition site worked very well. The marquee was excellent and provided the shelter for the early light rain. The toilets were definitely needed!

• Good to see table cricket, inclusive table tennis and pan disability football featured in the Cumbria School Games

• I was a bit concerned to find the children unsupervised within the car parking area (Orienteering). There were a couple of children who were running back and forth from the side of the park to the parked buses whilst members of the public were parking their cars.

• Hammonds Pond gardener was slightly taken aback when he was asked to position the marquee and the portaloos having no knowledge of where these were to be sited. Please can you make sure that the suppliers have details before coming on to site.

• Hockey would prefer the marquee to be situated next to the astro