Healthy Eating

Assisting schools to set up healthy tuck shops, breakfast clubs, and drinking water systems. Funding identified to allow one secondary school to pilot a 'Fruit Smoothie Juice Bar' run by pupils, to promote consumption of fruit and vegetables.

Physical Activity

Many schools have increased their provision of opportunities for physical activity through the setting up of after school clubs.

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) including sex and relationship education and drug education (including alcohol, tabacco and volatile substance abuse)

With the support of Primary and Secondary school teachers and involvement of the school health service a Scheme of Work has been produced. This encourages best practice and suggests new ways of working. Schools are supported to revise their drug education policy in line with national and local recommendations. This is done by close partnership working with the drug advisors within the LEA. Pupils from an area of deprivation in Barnsley have been to London to work alongside the National Children's Bureau in writing the National Drug Strategy.

With the assistance of the Healthy School team and School Health Service a secondary and feeder primary school have developed a peer education project in this area. Year ten pupils (14 year olds) have received training to enable them to work with year six (eleven year olds) around puberty and transition to secondary schools issues.

Emotional Health & Well-being

Schools are assisted to look at ways of encouraging expression of pupil's views; this has been done in some cases by having suggestion / comments boxes in class. These are then fed into the school council system. This theme also looks at staff health and well-being.