Overview
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 and it celebrated it's 10 year anniversary in 2009.
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.
To start working towards your National Healthy Schools Standard please visit the national website by clicking on the link below:
http://www.healthyschools.gov.uk
Kirklees schools can access the following support to help them towards achieving Healthy Schools status:
- The Kirkees Health in Schools team will run Twilight sessions each term.
- The team can also put you in touch with schools in your area who have already achieved status. For details of 'Healthy Schools' in your area, please contact the team.