Healthy School Programme

Conducting an audit was an essential step towards identifying the strengths and gaps in provision and enabled informed target setting.  The audit was valuable in providing baseline data enabling school staff to identify areas in which they wished to work and provided a useful evaluation tool for the future.  The involvement of students proved to be a key element in the audit process.

“Improving the school’s health, helps improve the school”.

At the John Bramston School & College, the healthy schools programme is designed from the bottom up, taking into account all spheres of school activity and the views of the entire school community.

To succeed the programme will need the involvement of everyone and its key messages will need to be supported and emphasised in all facets of planning and learning;

• policy and management discussions
• forums, student council and working groups to feed views into policies.
• planning the curriculum by using health links: www.wiredforhealth.gov.uk
• using varied teaching styles.
• welcoming and secure school environment.
• encouraging students to become healthy, mature grownups.
• students with special needs should be sure of support.
• staff well being should be seen to be important.
• parents, carers and the local community should be encouraged to contribute.
• the school should celebrate positive results.

The school has adopted a whole school approach and is applying it in each of the specific theme areas.

Alcohol Concern
Are you being bullied?
Beat the Bully
Bullying Online
Childrens Bureau
Diet: British Nutrition
Diet: Fit Food
Diet: Healthy Eating
Diet: Kids Health
Drugs: Dare UK
Duke of Edinburgh Award
Heart Foundation
Preventing bullying
Prevention of Cruelty to Children
Racism
Relationships
Samaritans
School bullying
Smoking
Stop Racism
Stop text bullying
Talk to Frank
What are citizens?
What is bullying
Young voice