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Presented by
Ekow Armah
Ekow Armah
National Coordinator
Health and Wellbeing Directorate
Department of Health, London
A joint Department of Health and Department for Children,
Schools and Families initiative which promotes a
whole-school approach to health improvement and learning.
DH
DCSF
Healthy Schools Central Team
Regional Coordinators @ 9 Govt Offices & RDPH
150 Local Programmes @ local authorities or PCTs
8 million children
Healthy Schools
Our vision is happy,
healthy children and
young people.
A Healthy School offers
children and young people
opportunities to be healthy,
active and them achieve their
full potential at school and in
life
Healthy Schools: our vision
Healthy and happy children and young people,
who do better in learning and in life
Using the Healthy Schools approach, our aims are:
• To support children and young people in developing healthy
behaviours
• To help reduce health inequalities
• To help promote social inclusion
• To help raise the achievement of children and young people
Healthy Schools: policy context
Increased emphasis on schools’ role
in promoting pupil wellbeing
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Every Child Matters (supports five outcomes)
Public Service Agreements
Statutory Duty
The Children’s Plan
Children and Young People’s Health Strategy
A delivery partnership
We work with others to ensure implementation of policy is mutually
supportive and coherent, such as:
• DCSF and School Food Trust on food standards in schools
• DSCF and Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL)
• Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives Strategy and supporting the
National Child Measurement Programme
• Agencies promoting school sport and physical education
• Extended schools; sustainable schools; Building Schools for the
Future
• Agencies supporting PSHE delivery
• Government offices to encourage regional
join-up and delivery
Our 2009 targets
National targets set out in Choosing Health 2004
• By 2009, 75% schools in England will have achieved
National Healthy School Status
• By 2009, 100% schools in England will be engaged and
participating in the programme
How are we doing?
• 63% schools in England are Healthy Schools
• 95% schools in England are participating in the programme
A successful Programme!
Today, an estimated 3.7 million children and young
people go to a Healthy School
With 9 out of 10 schools in England taking part in
the national programme, over 7 million children
and young people are in a school that wants to be a
Healthy School
National Healthy School Status
A Healthy School must meet
• 41 criteria across 4 themes
• Criteria supports the five ECM outcomes
Four themes for a Healthy School
• Physical Activity
• Healthy Eating
• Emotional Health & Well Being
• Personal, Social and Health Education
[including sex relationship education and drugs education]
Adding value with Healthy Schools:
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A Whole-School Approach
A whole-child approach
Supporting SEF and School Improvement Plans
Supporting the pupil well being duty
Closer working between health promotion providers and
education establishments
Whole-School Approach
Adding value with Healthy Schools:
• Schools can use NHSP and the WSA to bring about sustained
school improvements, and are more inclusive
• Healthy Schools have more effective liaison between home and
school, and between school and external support agencies
• Kevin Ward, Head Teacher, from Holmleigh Primary School in Hackney
“Over time a really positive culture has grown in our school. Our
educational offering has been enhanced and the whole school
environment has been enriched. As a result, our children really enjoy
coming to school and are making outstanding progress against all the
odds, something which came out very strongly in our recent Ofsted
Report, as well as in feedback we receive from parents.”
Adding value with Healthy Schools:
Evidence of impact
• 96% Headteachers in favour of NHSP
• Headteachers report NHSP as contributing to achieving all ECM
outcomes, including 86% ‘Be Healthy’ and 58% ‘Enjoy and
Achieve’
• Ofsted inspection reports indicate that primary and secondary
schools with NHSS obtain higher ratings for personal
development and wellbeing
• Pupils in Healthy Schools report a number of more positive
attitudes and behaviours
• International evidence to support effectiveness of
‘whole-school approach’ to promoting health
and wellbeing
Adding value with Healthy Schools:
School lunch and behaviour
A Local Programme looked at lunch behaviours in six
primary schools in Sheffield :
• As a whole, pupils in the intervention schools were 3.4 times
more likely to be ‘on-task’ in the teacher-pupil setting
compared with pupils in the control schools.
• Overall levels of ‘on-task’ behaviour were high (80%) and
levels of overall off-task were low (11%).
Adding value with Healthy Schools:
Physical activity and motivation
“Working within the ethos and culture of the National Healthy
Schools Programme, we have developed a very successful five
week course, based around sports activities, that identifies some
of our most vulnerable Key Stage 3 boys and removes them from
school for a day each week to work on various aspects of their
physical fitness, behaviour and self-esteem whilst also
challenging their personal goals, so as to raise their aspirations
and attainment.”
Added value with Healthy Schools:
Raising achievement & Behaviour
“We’ve had some major challenges to overcome as a school, and without
doubt the National Healthy Schools Programme has played a major
part in our dramatic turn-around. The whole-school approach it
encourages has made a huge difference to both our students and staff,
and with the help and guidance it offers we were recently declared
“outstanding” in every category by an Ofsted inspection.
“There is now a new willingness to engage, students have a sense of selfbelief and are healthier, happier and more confident because they are
in a more supportive school environment. Staff morale has rocketed,
exclusions are now few and far between and student aspirations have
soared, with over 90% now progressing to further and higher
education.”
Margaret Eva, Head Teacher at Bourne Community College in
West Sussex
The Whole-School Approach
10 elements to WSA
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Leadership and management
Policy development
Curriculum planning, resources, working with outside agencies
Learning and teaching
School culture
Giving Children and Young People a voice
Support services for Children and Young People
Staff professional development needs, health and welfare
Partnerships with parents/carers and local communities
Assessing recording and reporting Children and Young
People’s achievement
Adding value with Healthy Schools:
Raising achievement 1
• Whole-School Approach contributes to the school ethos
and culture – reduces bullying, anti-swot culture
• Promotes care, co-operation, rewards, effort and
achievement
• Breakfast clubs – supports those young people who
arrive at school without breakfast, and those young
people who would normally arrive late to school
Adding value with Healthy Schools:
Raising achievement 2
• School councils and other forms of pupil
participation-to promote interpersonal skills,
self-confidence, self-advocacy
• Sense of responsibility and belonging to the
school and the education on offer
• The involvement of parents and carers in
healthy schools work – helps mutual
understanding and gives consistent
messages and support to pupils
What are we doing now?
• We are currently undertaking a QA survey
involving approx 50 schools with Healthy
Schools status
• Findings will inform our moderation and QA
processes
• Looking at the range of QUAGs – quality
assurance groups
Future developments of the programme
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Working with local programmes, schools and
other stakeholders to create re-validation and
programme enhancement models
• Re-validation is on hold until September
2009
• Those schools ready for re-validation this
September will retain Healthy School status
for an additional year
Working with Parents/Carers
• Guidance to help schools to work with
parents/carers coming soon to national
website
• Research shows that the vast majority of
parents/carers want to be involved in their
children’s education
• Are you a welcoming school?
• What do YOU understand by ‘working with
parents/carers’?
Working with Parents/carers
• Guidance will outline the benefits for
working with parents/carers
• Provide you with a range of strategies to
engage with parents /carers
• Case study materials – examples of
how some schools have managed to
work effectively with their parents/carers
‘Across the country, the National Healthy Schools
Programme is creating innovative partnerships at a
local level. More than 10,000 schools across the
country are already Healthy Schools, but we want
every school in England to be a Healthy School by
2009, so that no child is left behind.’
Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP,
Secretary of State for Health, 2007
Contact Details
Ekow Armah
National Coordinator
[email protected]
020 7972 4552
www.healthyschools.gov.uk
Thank you