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Empowering
Young People
If young people are
to take responsibility for their own health, the school
needs to provide opportunities for them to be actively engaged
in the planning, implementation and evaluation of the Scheme.
Such opportunities exist through:
- School Councils adopting a healthy schools approach
- Young people's representation on the school's health
education team
- Planning, delivery and evaluation of health events
- The use of planned opportunities for reflection eg.
Diaries, personal profiles, progress files
- Pupil self-evaluation
- Target setting - particularly where this relates to
personal targets
Schools
should take every opportunity to involve young people in
the process and even elements of the Scheme may be "handed
over" to them. Schools may even explore the possibility
of health representatives. The advantages of this may include:
- Young people are empowered to facilitate aspects of
their own learning
- There are clear links with the citizenship work
- Young people throughout the school can disseminate
content packages
- Young people are given the skills to become peer promoters
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