Information for parents and carers

Welcome to the Parent section of the Active for Life Year 5 website! This section is dedicated to the parents/carers of children participating in the project.

Your child is in one of 60 Primary Schools in Bristol and North Somerset participating in an exciting research project called ‘Active for Life Year 5’. The study follows children from Year 4 to Year 6, to test whether a series of lessons taught during Year 5 on healthy eating and exercise, can help encourage children to be more active, spend less time being sedentary, and eat more fruit and veg.

We hope you will be able to find the information you would like to know by following the links below, but if you would like any further information, please email us on afly5-scm@bristol.ac.uk and we will be happy to hear from you.

• Information (PDF, 154kB) – Read the parent information sheet giving full details of the study and description of the measurements that are taken (pdf, 154.6Kb)
• Consent – Find out about the consent process and how the opt out consent form works
• Activity belts – Find out when your child should and shouldn’t be wearing their activity belt
• Parent involvement – Find out about the logs you have been sent, and the questionnaire you will be sent in summer 2012
• Your questions – Answers to some common questions
• Plain English summary - In-depth information about the study
• Newsletter (PDF, 705kB) – Read the parent newsletter distributed this Spring regarding the study (pdf, 705.9Kb)

Note: some of the documents on this page are in PDF format. In order to view a PDF you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader