The criteria for National Healthy School status:

Pupils are provided with a range of opportunities to be physically active.  They understand how physical activity can  help them to be more healthy, and how physical activity can improve and be part of their everyday life.

A Healthy School:

1.  Provides clear leadership and management to develop and monitor its physical activity policy.

2. Has a whole-school physical activity policy - developed through wide consultation, implemented, monitored and evaluated for impact.

3.  Ensures a minimum two hours of structured physical activity each week to all of its pupils in or outside the school curriculum.

4.  Provides opportunities for all pupils to participate in a broad range of extra curricular activities that promote physical activity.

5.  Consults with pupils about the physical activity opportunities offered by the school, identifies barriers to participation and seeks to remove them.

6.  Involves schools sports co-ordinators (where available) and other community resources in provision of activities.

7.  Encourages pupils, parents/carers and staff to walk or cycle to school under safe conditions, utilising the school travel plan.

8.  Gives parents/carers the opportunity to be involved in the planning and delivery of physical activity opportunities and helps them to understand the benefits of physical activity for themselves and their children.

9.  Ensures that there is appropriate training provided for those involved in providing physical activities; and

10.  Encourages all staff to undertake physical activity.

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