Table 1 Action 3:30 intervention components
Component | Description |
|---|---|
25-hour TA training programme | Community Sports Leader Award (tailored for teaching assistants) |
FUNdamentals (Bristol City Council in-house training programme that focuses on fundamental movement skills) | |
Focused sessions on learning about motivation and delivery to pupils in an autonomy-supportive manner | |
First-aid certificate course | One-day first-aid training course |
Ongoing TA support | One-day ‘booster’ training session for TAs, to occur after the first 10 weeks of the intervention |
One visit per school by trainer to support TAs during the delivery of the sessions | |
Three hours of phone or email support per school from trainer | |
Session plans | 40 one-hour session plans |
Action 3:30 clubs | Trained TAs run a 1-hour Action 3:30 session at the school site twice a week for 20 weeks |
TAs deliver content on Action 3:30 session plans | |
Parental information sheets | Biweekly (every four sessions); outlines activities that have been taught during the previous two weeks |
| Â | Children and parents provided with ideas of activities that the children could engage with parents, siblings or friends to reinforce activity session materials |