WHAT IS
A HEALTHY SCHOOL?
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National
Healthy School status requires schools to meet criteria
in four core themes. These criteria relate not only
to the taught curriculum but also to the emotional, physical
and learning environment that the school provides.
There are a number of specific actions that schools need
to take if they are to be recognised as Healthy Schools.
Many schools are already engaged in these activities and
achieving recognition need not be onerous.
Schools
are asked to demonstrate evidence in the core themes using
a whole school approach involving the whole school community:
- Personal,
Social and Health Education
including sex and relationship education and drug education
(including alcohol, tobacco and volatile substance abuse)
- Healthy
Eating
- Physical
Activity
- Emotional
Health and Well-being (including bullying)
Many
schools will address these themes at the same time, as they
are interrelated and interdependent.
Across
the four core themes, there will need to be evidence
of how the whole school approach has been used in the process.
The
whole school approach:
- Aims to develop an ethos and environment that supports
learning and promotes the health and well-being of all.
- Consults and encourages participation of all within
the school community, and
- Is an extremely effective, evidence-based school improvement
mechanism which brings about and embeds cultural change
in schools.
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