Mrs J. Coleman receiving our Healthy Schools award.
The school achieved Healthy Schools status in 2006 and we continually try to maintain and improve our provision throughout the school for the required principles of a Healthy School for both pupils and staff:
- Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)
- Healthy Eating
- Physical Activity
- Emotional Health and Wellbeing
Click here for more detailed information from the National Healthy Schools programme,
What are we doing to ensure coverage?
Personal, Social and Health Education
- Appropriate policies/ guidelines
- Develop curriculum opportunities on health, wellbeing and social issues
- Curriculum evenings for parents to raise awareness of issues
- Focus group discussions
- Information for parents
Healthy Eating
- Healthy lunch weeks
- Information for parents
- Focus group discussions
- Designing and making fruit salads, sandwiches, lunchboxes
- Growing vegetables and harvesting the produce
- 'Nutritious and Delicious' Evening for Parents (link to another page)
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Physical Activity
- Encouraging walking to school with a Travel plan and 'going for Gold' scheme
- Provision of physical activities in 'Get healthy' week
- Developing an appropriate Outdoor curriculum for the Early Years Foundation Stage classes
- PE in school
- Providing opportunities for physical activity at playtimes and lunchtimes
- Information for parents - including off-site physical activity provision
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Emotional Health and Wellbeing
- Class targets to develop a good learning environment
- Whole school rules for lunchtimes/ playground to encourage safety, self-esteem
- Certificates given in assembly for good citizenship, social behaviour and good work
- Information for parents
- Themes for assemblies and in RE
- Raising money for charity
- Appropriate discussions through Focus groups, circle times and class discussions and activities
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We raised £375 for the charity Food Aid from the sale of the harvest gifts. |
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