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New PSHE Consultant focuses on Safety
Hi, I'm Chris Coverley the latest addition to the City Healthy Schools Team. One of my first projects will be to provide extra support to schools around safety education within PSHE. I will be contacting colleagues in City schools over the coming term to find out more about what you need, what you have in place and to let you know what's new in the City for safety education
Look forward to meeting you!
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Healthy Schools has a New Champion!
We are very proud to announce that Councillor Mohammed Ibrahim is the new City of Nottingham "Healthy Schools Champion"! We are looking forward to plenty of new and exciting opportunities to promote the fantastic work that the team and City Schools are doing together to improve health outcomes for children and young people in the City.
We warmly welcome Councillor Ibrahim aboard the Healthy Schools Team and extend our thanks for his support!
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Support for New PSHE Curriculum - Jane Hyland
In my capacity as a Regional Subject Adviser for Personal Social Health and Economic Education I am offering support in the new secondary curriculum that is due for phased implementation from September 2008. I am one of five PSHEE subject advisers working in the East Midlands responsible for offering some subject specific support for the development of PSHEE within it. I have particular responsibility for supporting schools within your authority.
You may be aware that in the new curriculum PSHE assumes greater importance and prominence than previously. PSHEE (personal, social, health and economic) education is described in two new programmes of study:
personal wellbeing
and
economic wellbeing and financial capability
These programmes of study draw together, in a coherent way, personal, social and health education, including sex and relationships, education, drugs and alcohol, the social and emotional aspects of learning, careers education, enterprise, financial capability and work-related learning.
You are invited to attend a free regional briefing on Friday 14th March about these changes. I would be grateful if you could distribute this through your networks to:
PSHE subject leads / coordinators
Work Related Learning Leads / coordinators
Business / Enterprise Leads / coordinators
Careers Leads / coordinators
Personal finance leads
In the meantime I am able to provide some initial information or attend teacher meetings to answer questions and offer some support.
Please let me know if I can be of any further assistance to you,
Jane Hyland
Regional PSHEE Subject Adviser
East Midlands
College Street Centre
College Street
Nottingham
NG1 5AQ
0115 9476202
jane.hyland@collegest.org.uk
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Congratulations to Berridge Junior School
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A celebratory event was held at Berridge Junior School on Friday 7 December during which members of the School Council were presented with the Healthy Schools Gold Award. The Head Teacher, Brian Mallows, spoke of a range of activities which had contributed to their achievement of Healthy Schools Status, and Adrian Smith, a local Health Trainer, demonstrated smoothie making. The results of which were very much enjoyed by the Healthy Schools Team !
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Healthy Schools - A Teacher's View
"The Healthy Schools Award process, the audit, the consultation and the evaluation has very much suported the school's ability to judge its impact in terms of the ECM agenda. It has led to a clarity about sections 2 and 4 of the SEF, and has already begun to influence section 5. It has further brought together previously disparate aspects of the school's work, e.g. catering, PSHE, Full Service Extended School and the CAF project. This development has been expertly supported by the Healthy Schools team, who have guided us towards a new way of thinking. We are already seeing measurable impact."
Steve McKenna
Deputy Head
The Hadden Park High School
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New Self Validation Process for Healthy Schools
From January 2007, all Healthy Schools Programmes will be adopting a new, national self-validation process within a quality assurance framework, which aims to minimise bureaucracy, maximise consistency, increase participation and maintain rigour.
The role of the Local Programme is to offer as much or as little professional support as a school requests and to carry out its work within the quality assurance process. Your Healthy Schools Consultant will be in contact within the next few weeks to arrange a meeting to support your schools transition from the old system to the new one.
For more information, see the following documents on the 'Useful Downloads' menu opposite:
Rationale, Definitions, Letter to Coordinators, Audit Tool, Self Validation Process, and Self Validation Form.
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Nottingham Goes for Gold!
By the last day of the summer term 07 - nearly half of all Nottingham schools had achieved National Healthy School Status. This term we have even more schools putting the finishing touches to their Healthy School Status bids to swell the numbers even further. We are hoping to make the number of schools gaining Full Healthy Schools Status even higher.
Congratulations...you've been amazing!
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| The New Healthy School Status |
The next phase of the National Healthy Schools Programme
(NHSP) is here!
Many schools have already achieved accreditation in one or more
themes through the local Healthy School Programme, and to build
on these successes, Nottingham is Going for Gold. Our Gold Standard
equates to the Government's new 'Healthy School Status'.
All the work you have done so far, even if you haven't got as far
as the accreditation in your chosen themes, can contribute to achieving
the Gold Standard. The original 8 themes have now been rationalised
under just 4 National Priorities - PSHE, Healthy Eating, Physical
Activity and Emotional Health and Well-being.
To achieve National Healthy School Status you need to evidence
how you have met the standards within all four key priority themes.
Your school can be a Healthy School, making a real contribution
to children's health and learning and helping to deliver the five
national outcomes for children as described in Every Child Matters.
There is increasing evidence that children and young people who
are healthy achieve well at school, and in the longer term, children
and young people who do well at school go on to live healthier lives.
Schools can play a key role in improving young people's health by
developing the knowledge, skills and positive attitudes required
to make healthy choices both now and in the future.
That is why the Government wants every school to become a Healthy
School and is ensuring schools have the support they need. |
The National Healthy Schools Programme is funded by
DfES and Department of Health, with a regional and local network.
By 2009, the Government wants every school to be working towards achieving
National Healthy School Status.
Every local education authority in England has a healthy schools partnership
with its primary care trust(s), and this employs a local programme
coordinator who will work with schools to help them achieve Healthy
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| What is A Healthy School? |
| A Healthy School promotes the health and well-being
of its pupils and staff through a well planned, taught curriculum
experienced in a physical and emotional environment that promotes
learning and healthy lifestyle choices. A Healthy School achieves
national standards that demonstrate a key contribution to the education
and health priorities found in the outcomes of Every Child Matters. |
Many schools are already participating in a range
of activities to promote health. The National Healthy Schools Programme
provides a support programme, process and nationally agreed outcomes
to help schools build on their existing achievements and develop a
whole school approach to promoting the health and well being of the
school community. The Programme can recognise your achievements and
help your school achieve even more with the support of your local
healthy schools programme team. The programme can call upon the expertise
of a wide range of local education and health professionals to help
you.
In 2004 the Government issued the Healthy Living Blueprint for Schools
which gives details of the sort of activities that could be undertaken
to support a schools' progress to becoming healthier. The Government
will be monitoring how schools contribute to the outcomes set out
within this document: the same priorities recognised by Healthy School
Status. |
| Healthy Schools make a real difference |
| Evidence from phase one of the National Healthy
Schools Programme showed that schools involved in the programme
were improving faster in terms of health behaviours than other schools.
They scored higher on 9 out of 11 Ofsted indicators. Children and
young people report a range of positive outcomes such as feeling
less likely to be bullied, feeling as though they have more of a
say in the running of the school and enjoying it more.
From September 2005, Ofsted will expect schools to demonstrate how they are contributing to the five national outcomes for children stipulated by Every Child Matters and the Children Act 2004 -being healthy; staying safe; enjoying and achieving; making a positive contribution; and economic wellbeing. Gaining national Healthy School status provides rigorous evidence of this, and will assist schools in evidencing their self-evaluation form (SEF) and completing the new school profile.
The NHSP builds on what schools have been doing for several years.
The criteria set out in each theme complement existing and increasingly
mainstreamed efforts to promote PSHE, physical activity, healthy eating,
and emotional health and wellbeing in the school setting. Schools
that are already participating in such work may not need to devote
any extra resources but will be able to consolidate existing good
practice.
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Links to Other Polcies &
Programmes |
Achieving national Healthy School status enables a school to demonstrate
its contribution to the five national outcomes for children and supports the
targets within the following national priorities:
- improving behaviour and attendance (the NHSP is working closely with
the Secondary Strategy, Social, Emotional and Behavioural Skills (SEBS)
and Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL);
- improving performance in national Standard Attainment Tests;
- reducing and halting the increase in childhood obesity;
- promoting positive sexual health and reducing teenage pregnancy; and
- reducing young people’s drug, alcohol and tobacco use.
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Contact your local Healthy Schools Manager,
Chris Wallbanks
Most schools are not starting from scratch. For most it will be a
question of your local Healthy Schools representative helping you
to assess how your school is doing in meeting the standards, discuss
priorities for your school and help you draw up an action plan. They
can also help you with engaging other staff to get involved and finding
sources of external support to help your school. |
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