Owing to your affiliation to the Gateshead Schools Health & Wellbeing Service 'EXTRA PACKAGE’ your school benefits from exclusive access to a range of additional opportunities, many of which place an increased emphasis on STAFF HEALTH & WELLBEING.
The first opportunity of this nature comes in the form of #INSPIRE150, following our most successful programme to date, last year. The positive link between physical activity and mental wellbeing needs no further explanation! For this reason, we are introducing our first staff focussed initiative for the year; '#INSPIRE150'. This physical activity challenge has been designed exclusively for staff in schools and utilises a FREE app (STRAVA).
#INSPIRE150 is aligned to the Chief Medical Officer Guidelines (CMO) guidelines, encouraging adults to undertake 150 active mins per week. The goal is simple; to incentivise (via a variety of rewards & incentives - e.g. medals, t-shirts, earbuds, Bluetooth speakers etc.) and motivate school staff throughout Gateshead to get active! Importantly, it is completely flexible and will account for varying levels of fitness/experience and activities.
This year we are also able to include a variety of different 'sports' that members can pick to complete, which will go toward their weekly target, as opposed to last year where only walking, running and cycling were used. This year, we are able to include multi-sports and activities such as Swimming, Ice Skating, Badminton, Yoga, and many more!
The programme will go live on Monday 20th January 2025!