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Towards a Health Promoting School

Aims

  • To encourage health promotion and self esteem in pupils, parents, staff and wider community

  • To promote healthy eating through development of SNAG

  • To establish physical activity in each child from P1  to P7 through active play and extra curricular sport participation

  • To develop positive links with school nurse, doctor, dental hygienist, school cook, new sports coordinator, leisure and culture coordinators

  • To encourage health and well being of staff

Criteria For Success

  • Pupils, parents, staff and wider community participate in activities provided by the school, having contributed to the suggestion of activities

  • Continuing positive ethos in school

  • Free fruit and dental hygiene promotion; targeting once a term

  • SNAG working party to establish breakfast club once a week during winter term January – March 2005

  • SNAG to audit lunches provided and to make suggestions to parents as well as catering department

  • SNAG to oversee the creation of healthy recipe book to go on sale for Christmas

  • Staff will build on learning from the TOPS training

  • Establishment of ‘motivation card’ for attendance at playground

  • Establish extra curricular clubs

  • Database of people, contact emails, phone numbers, etc. and job descriptions set up and stored in the school office of health promoting staff in the Authority. All invited to share in and contribute to activities during the session at Hill of Fearn Primary

  • Barrie Forbes invited to do assertive training for positive behaviour management and stress reduction for all staff

  • Suggestions made and asked for others from staff, parents and community for health and well being activities which could be organised in the school for all adults

Implementation strategies

  • Put out letter inviting health promoting staff in Authority to make contact with Hill of Fearn  Primary: August 2004

  • Issue ‘motivation and commitment card’ to all pupils in P4-7 so that active participation at least 3 times a week for 6 weeks in the term means a reward (e.g. free swim at Tain pool, etc. Established when bid from ACSF contingency fund has been approved for costing of ‘rewards’): August 2004

  • Continuation of playground games and commitment to spending on equipment: all session

  • Discuss extra currlicular clubs with Pupil Council August 2004 and then set up October 2004

  • Barrie Forbes’ training: InSeT (provisionally booked for November 2004)

  • Questionnaire to all adults with interest in the school regarding health and well being suggestions: August 2004

  • Funding for fruit and dental hygiene to come from ACSF and implemented: termly for one week at a time.

  • SNAG to meet regarding recipe book, questionnaire to pupils and parents and creation of simple, sustainable breakfast club to run once a week during January, February and March: September through March 2004-5. Recipe book out December 2004

  • Sports coordinator appointed and strategy developed with HT: as soon as appointment made

  • Review PE programme of work: November 2004

  • Policy written: December 2004

Monitoring and evaluation

  • HT to use Health Promoting School toolkit to judge on health promoting status – apply for status by end of second term

  • Questionnaires to staff, pupils and parents

  • Evaluate PE programme of work and consider activity as well as skill

  • Monitor use of playground equipment

Costs

  • 3 x  HT management days for administration of letters, writing up of programmes, questionnaires, etc

  • 3 x CAT sessions to discuss progress and reflect on InSeT; collegiate approach

  • 0.5 InSeT days: Barrie Forbes

  • £100 to maintain playground equipment

Responsibility

  • HT to liaise with outside agencies but after school so that all staff welcome to contribute

  • HT to audit current practice in health curriculum

  • Staff, pupils and parents to reflect on own lifestyles

  • Barrie Forbes to deliver InSeT days

  • HT to maintain port folio of evidence for health promoting school status

  • LSA ,CA and Pupil Council in conjunction with HT to monitor use of playground equipment

  • SNAG and enterprise after school club to create and sell healthy recipe book

  • Health, nutrition and education agencies to work together

  • HT and new PE teacher in consultation with staff to reconsider PE programme
 
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