Healthy Schools
Sports Day encourages a healthy lifestyle
We are very pleased to announce that this school has been awarded National Healthy School Status.
About Healthy Schools
The National Healthy Schools Programme is an exciting long term initiative that helps young people and their schools to be healthy. We are making a difference to the health and achievement of young people in thousands of schools across England.
Healthy Schools help children and young people to reach their potential by building on a solid foundation of health to do better in learning and in life.
The Programme isn’t just about physical activity. The whole school approach involves working with children and young people, parents, school staff and the whole school community to provide a solid foundation from which developments and improvement are embedded in a systematic way. These processes contribute to the physical and emotional development of all members of the school community.
Health, it’s about good health and happiness inside and out. And it’s not just about pupils either; a Healthy School involves the whole school community – from parents to governors to school staff – in improving their health and their happiness and getting the most out of life. Children and young people in Healthy Schools tell us that they feel healthier, happier and safer.
Healthy School Status is based on a whole-school approach to physical and emotional well-being focused on four core themes:
• Personal, Social & Health Education
• Healthy Eating
• Physical Activity
• Emotional Health & Wellbeing
Improvements made to the school:
- Installation of more water fountains.
- Improving the food in the school canteen to provide healthier options,
- Using guidance from the school council.
- More students are taking GCSE Physical Education.
- Assemblies and lessons being taken by outside speakers, for example nurses on sexual health issues and healthy eating and policeman on issues relating to crime and antisocial behaviour.
- A new bike shed has been built to encourage students to cycle to school.
- Theatre companies are performing plays on issues relating to health and well-being.
- Plasma screens have been put up around the school to improve communication with pupils.
- Councillors and peer support are available in school for worried students to talk through any problems with.
