Transcript The Gloucestershire Healthy Schools Partnership

The Gloucestershire Healthy
Schools Partnership
‘Building the foundations of learning’
Out of the Bike Sheds
• Healthy Schools 2002-2005
• The public policy agenda – ‘Every Child Matters’
‘Choosing Health’ Youth Green paper, 14-19
reforms
• Children’s Services Authorities, APAs and JARS
• Ofsted
• National targets – 50% of all county schools to be
healthy schools by December 2006
100% by 2009
What is a healthy school?
• ‘At our school there are opportunities for
everybody, people listen to you and you can
make things happen’ ( pupils definition, Thomas Keble
School)
• A whole School approach to the health
and well being of children,young people
and the adults who work with them
Who are we and what do we do?
• Core and Advisory team
• Supporting schools to become healthier places to
learn and work across 7 key areas:
– Citizenship – including the participation of young
people
– Emotional health and well-being
– Physical activity
– Healthy Eating
– PSHE
• Sex and Relationships education
• Drugs education
National Healthy Schools status
• Revised and revamped for September 2005
• An agreed set of criteria (dfes and DOH) against
which schools are to be quality assured
• Key evidence for the revised Ofsted framework
and the school self-evaluation process
• A key performance indicator in local authority
inspections and plans e.g. JAR, APA, YPSMS,
Teenage Pregnancy
• Criteria extended to cover Healthy Eating,
Physical Activity and Emotional Health and WellBeing
Supporting the process
Encouraging schools to be involved
• Advising and supporting schools through the
process with information, training, on site support
and ‘expert’ input
• Partnership working – helping schools, agencies
and services to work together for the benefit of the
young people
• Specific projects targeting groups of schools
• Celebrating success at Healthy Schools
Celebration events
Some key areas of current activity:
autumn 2005
• School Health Check
• Pupil On line survey
• Participation and consultation with children and young
people
• Kraft – Health4Schools
• Learning for Living
• Secondary food map
• National Certification programme for teachers of CPSHE
• ASTs and ‘Angels’
• Anti-bullying guidelines across Children’s Services
• Family work with children of drug using parents
• Extended School Nurse drop ins
Good Practice:The whole
school approach
• Whole school planning and training
• Comprehensive PSHE and Citizenship
programme
• Active involvement of young people
• Partnership working