What is a Healthy School?
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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.
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.
Click here for more information on the national healthy schools standard four key themes.