The National Healthy Schools Programme is an exciting long term initiative that helps young people and their schools to be healthy.
Healthy Schools help children and young people to reach their potential by building on a solid foundation of health to do better in learning and in life. The Government have set a target that all schools will be participating in the National Healthy Schools Programme by 2009 and that 75% of schools will have achieved National Healthy Schools Status.
The healthy Schools Programme supports links between health, behaviour and achievement; it is about creating healthy and happy children and young people, who do better in learning and in life.
The programme is based on a whole-school approach to physical and emotional well-being focused on four core themes:
To deliver real benefits for children and young people, specifically:
There are direct links between the criteria for the National Healthy School Status and the five Every Child Matters outcomes.
National Healthy School Status is achieved within a rigorous quality assurance framework. All schools achieving National Healthy School Status must have met national criteria using a whole school approach across the four core themes.
Website: www.healthyschools.gov.uk
Below is a list of agencies linked to this initiative: