Leeds Well School Partnership launch 'Move Well' book

A Yorkshire-based sports charity has produced a book of reflective writings from school pupils, chronicling youngsters' personal perspectives on the significance of movement, physical activity, and sport in their lives.

- By David Gibson Contributor

The Leeds Well School Partnership, part of the Leeds Rhinos Foundation, a charity dedicated to improving the physical and mental wellbeing of children and young people, launched a competition to create the Move Well Book. It's a series of pupils' own 'letters to movement' in which they describe their relationships with physical movement. The project was designed to encourage more engagement in sporting activity, and promote literacy amongst youngsters who were set the challenges of recording their feelings about sport and movement.

The Move Well book, which includes illustrations by pupils at Morley Victoria School, is the first of its kind in the country, and the organisers are hoping that its value will be replicated across other regions in Yorkshire and nationally.

Jill Wilkinson, Leeds Well School Partnership Director says: "The Move Well Book is the result of a competition held in collaboration with Leeds Beckett University, the Leeds Rhinos Foundation, Youth Sport Trust (YST) and Scamp Creative. Schools were invited to take part in a competition which offered them a creative, cross-curricular resource."

She adds: "The initiative aimed to assist educators in gaining insights into pupils' connections with movement and physical activity. It also encouraged pupils to reflect on the meanings of movement, physical activity, and sport."