Parental Consent form – Motor Skills trial

Good afternoon,

The University of Bradford would like to complete a Yorkshire-wide Motor Skills screening with lots of different Primary Schools, and have asked if our school would like to take part (Year groups 1-6 only).

The purpose of this study is to trial a new assessment of fundamental movement skills. Fundamental movement skills are 3 main types of abilities children display in a playground: balance, moving objects (e.g. kicking a ball) and moving through space (e.g. running). Research has found that these abilities are important in schooling, as they have been linked to childhood academic attainment.

The activities will be part of your child’s normal P.E session and it will contain short (no more than 30 seconds) activities which assess, running, jumping, hopping, throwing, kicking and static balance. The trial will take place over a 12 week period and the children are assessed at the start and end of the trial. Each child receives an individual intervention resource provided by the University of Bradford and this will be implemented in school – we may even be asked to send home some of these activities!

In order for your child to participate, we need your consent as it is a research study, as they will be collecting demographic information about your child from the school such as date of birth, ethnicity, sex, free school meal status, Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) status (e.g. diagnoses of developmental disorders such as Autism and ADHD and physical disabilities), year group and class.

ALL INFORMATION OBTAINIED WILL BE KEPT CONFIDENTIAL. The research team will replace pupil’s names with code numbers and only the research team and school will have access to this encoded information.  No information about any individual child will appear in any public report. Reports will refer to the combined scores taken from all children. The study has received ethical approval from the University of Bradford (ref: E1026).

Please click the link and complete the following consent form if you are happy for your child to take part – there is a link on the form to more information about the study as well.

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=0aJeJGVDJkeAWmMeuT2TqmTlDvnMcxBLkjefenOSJHNUM1BGMko0MU1FTTNXVk9CTVkyMlBaMkdUNC4u&origin=QRCode

For more information, or if you have any questions, please contact Dr Lucy Eddy L.H.Eddy@bradford.ac.uk

If you do not consent via the above form, your child will not be allowed to participate. The Trial will begin after the half term holiday therefore we need your consent before then. 

Thank you