The It’s Great Out There Coalition to support school research project
25/05/2018
The grant will help the Finnish brand and the school in question, Rosendale Primary School, run a project designed to create a culture of being move active among young people and those with whom they interact.
The school is looking to work with Reima and use its ReimaGO sensors to provide empirical evidence that supports its belief that physically active children are healthier, do better academically, and are far more likely to be active as adults.
The research project will compare the physical activity of a study class (with ReimaGO sensors) and a control class (without sensors). These roles will be reversed half way through the trial to ensure that there is no negative experimental bias. As well as the children, the input of parents and carers will also be gathered to complete the picture.
Data gathered by Reima during school visits and research and results gathered by Rosendale will contribute to new marketing literature to encourage more schools across Europe to consider similar initiatives.
Andrew Denton, secretary general of the It’s Great Out There Coalition, said: “This is a really important and valuable project, and it is very worthy of an #itsgreatoutthere grant. Not only will the collaboration between Rosendale Primary School and ReimaGO provide extremely valuable material that they can use at a local level to inspire young people to be more active, but it will also deliver very solid evidence that we can all use on a bigger stage.”
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