Getting Girls More Active!

The Fit for Girls Programme aims to give girls and young women opportunities and choices to achieve the social, psychological and physical benefits possible through physical activity.

It achieves this through providing practitioners with the tools and skills to be able to successfully consult, plan and implement sustainable extra curricular programmes for girls as well as creating better links with and enhancing existing curricular activity.

The programme is specifically aimed at those girls and young women who are least likely to be physically active, who currently are not active in the extra curricular setting and in cases, also opt out of curricular PE.

It takes a holistic view on sport, physical activity and health and actively encourages schools to adopt a joined up approach and practitioners to work together to improve the health, fitness and opportunities for girls and young women to take part in physical activity and sport.

Through a partnership between sportscotland, the Youth Sport Trust, Big Lottery and the SHPSU the programme has been piloted across Scotland as the Girls in Sport and Physical Activity programme.

In several of the pilot schools there have been positive approaches which look to address raising participation but also include health, well-being, healthy eating, body image issues and self esteem in their approaches.

Fit for Girls has now received Scottish Government investment to allow training to take place in every secondary schools across the country.

We are confident that the Fit for Girls programme, coupled with the engagement of PE staff and Active Schools Coordinators, has the ability to make a significant impact on girls' physical activity levels as well as their perception of physical activity and sport.