Welcome to the Kirklees Health in Schools website
This site is dedicated to supporting all teaching and support staff to develop the health and wellbeing of the school community.
From Janurary 2010, there are some changes to the Health in Schools agenda. Letters were sent out to schools in December 2009 to outline these changes, and all letters can be accessed here.
The Health in Schools site has a section devoted to each of the themes of the National Healthy Schools Standard, where you will find a host of information, including policy guidance, and resources in each theme area. In our news section you can read up on the latest developments in schools.
Spotlight On
Health in Schools Twilight session a success!
On Tuesday 23rd February, the Health in Schools team ran a twilight session to give schools a chance to familiarise themselves with the national healthy schools website, and to introduce schools who have already achieved status to the new Annual review tool.
Representatives from 30 schools across Kirklees attended the session, and all schools found it useful in terms of understanding how the new process works, and having an opportunity to work on the website.
Six partners from the Health in Schools partnership were there to give the schools support where needed, and the school staff also benefitted from being able to talk to other schools and share ideas about the things they do in school in terms of health.
All schools reported that attending this twilight session will support their health in schools work:
“Attending this session has helped me to keep health in the forefront of the mind”
“I am now much clearer about what I need to do to retain our healthy schools status, and what we need to do as a school”
The Health in Schools team will be running more of these twilight sessions to support schools with their health in schools work.
See the website for future dates of these sessions.
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26 Feb 2010: SPICED Training 15 & 16 March 2010
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