National Healthy Schools Standard
Overview of the National Healthy Schools Standard
The National Healthy Schools Programme is a joint initiative from the Department for Health and Department of Children, Schools and Families.
The Healthy Schools Programme is 10 years old this year. The programme supports the links between health, behaviour and achievement, and it is about creating healthy and happy children and young people, who do better in learning and in life. The wellbeing agenda is more relevant today than ever before.
The National Healthy Schools Programme has four themes. Schools will achieve National Healthy School Status by demonstrating that they are meeting the standards and criteria in all four core themes. These are:
The four core themes relate to both the school curriculum and the emotional and physical learning environment in school.
Although each theme covers a different area, they are all delivered using the whole school approach so the basic requirements are the same.
For more information on how you can work towards the National Healthy Schools Standard and make your school a healthier, happier place for all the children and staff and the wider school community, please visit the national website by clicking on the logo below:
From Autumn 2009, the national team will introduce a new model for Healthy Schools which is called the Healthy Schools Enhancement model. This will allow schools who have already achieved the foundations of health improvement set by National Healthy Schools Status to build upon this practice and further embed health behaviours and well being outcomes in school
Click here for more information on the Healthy Schools Enhancement model.