School Sport Unit

Chat with your colleagues and put together a team.  

• School staff teams will be created as part of the school PSC registration process. If your school has already completed their PSC registration you can request a PSC Facilitator to add a staff team at any time before registrations close at the end of Term 2. Alternately email the PSC team for assistance. 
• Corporate staff teams

- Existing PSC Facilitators (2022 facilitators) of a staff team can log into the PSC Tracker and complete the PSC registration. 

- Corporate staff who wish to oversee an office team can email the PSC team for assistance in setting up their office. Please provide the following information:

- 10wC Facilitator (team coordinator) full name and email – this is the main contact for the team who completes the main administrative tasks.

- a team name 

- identify which Department operational directorate you work in

- the best postal address for your team (for end of challenge certificates distribution).

Once a team has been nominated and created in the PSC Tracker the team's 10wC Facilitator will be sent an email notifying them that they can log into the PSC Trackerand finalise their team's registration, that is, add team participant names.  

NOTE: You can add new participants at any time after your team is registered, so if your list isn’t fully complete, that’s ok. 

Can’t get a team together?  

• Email the PSC team for assistance in adding you to a team.

There are a few different ways participants can track activity.   

• '10wC activity tracker' web app (online)
  The easiest method to track daily activity is to use the 10wC activity tracker web app as it syncs the weekly award level straight to the PSC Tracker e-Wall chart! Participants can track minutes of exercise or steps. See the 'Using the PSC 10wC activity tracker web app' guide (PDF 2200KB)
  

• Digital logbooks & wall charts
  Participants can use a digital staff logbook (PDF 1.02MB) to track activity. They will need to log into the PSC Tracker the add their weekly award levels to their team's e-Wall chart.

- Staff participants can access the PSC Tracker through the ‘Organisation login' using the username and password that was created when the team was registered. See the 10wC Facilitator for these login details.

- Alternatively, the 10wC Facilitator can download and share the digital staff wall chart (PDF 409 KB) and the 10wC Facilitator can log into the PSC Tracker and update the e-Wall chart with their team's participant weekly awards. 

For staff teams, this weekly award level can be entered straight to the PSC Tracker staff e-wall chart – staff can be given access through the ‘Organisation username and password’ that the PSC Facilitator created at registration.  

• Printed logbooks & wall chart
  Participants can download and print a staff logbook (PDF 417KB) to track their activity. They will need to log into the PSC Tracker the add their weekly award level to their team's e-Wall chart.
  

- Staff participants can access the PSC Tracker through the ‘Organisation login' using the username and password that was created when the team was registered. See the 10wC Facilitator for these login details.

- Alternatively, a team can use a printed staff wall chart (PDF 316KB) and the 10wC Facilitator can log into the PSC Tracker and update the e-Wall chart with their team's participant weekly awards. 

The PSC aims to have 'more staff, more active, more often'. Activity guidelines for adults are different to children so the staff award levels for the 10 week Challenge (10wC) have been changed to represent these better. 

Physical activity guidelines suggest that adults (18-64 years) should be active on most days of the week. The guidelines recommend that adults undertake either 150-300minutes of moderate intensity physical activity, or 75-150 minutes of vigorous intensity physical activity, or an equivalent combination of both, per week. The guidelines also recommend that these adults include strength or toning on at least 2 days per week.

Source: Australian Government - Department of Health and Aged Care 

Tracking minutes of activities

Staff 10wC award levels reflect the participant's weekly activity time commitment . All types of activity can count toward an award with 'moderate to vigorous' physical activities preferred. The aim of the 10wC is to increase the amount of 'structured activity' so it is planned into your day. As participants log activity they move along the continuum into the different award levels. 

You can be physically active at different intensities, including:

• light – where you might not even think about it, such as strolling around the garden, getting dressed or stretching (incidental activity)

• moderate – where you are putting in some effort, but it is not strenuous, such as bike riding or going for a brisk walk (often structured activity)

• vigorous – where you are out of breath and sweating, such as jogging, star jumping or doing sit ups (structured activity)

Source: Australian Government - Department of Health and Aged Care 

Tracking steps 

Staff can also choose to track their activity in 'steps'. The 10wC activity tracker web app converts steps to minutes in the app. If users use logbooks they will need to manually covert their steps' to 'minutes'. 
As activity is recommended to be 'moderate to vigorous' most people who track steps are by 'incidental activity', which is often much less intense, so tracking via 'steps' is scaled down - 500 steps = 1 minute of activity.

NOTE: It is therefore recommended that if you are doing a 20 minute run you add '20 minutes' of activity, not the steps themselves.