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Healthy Schools

Schools play an important role in supporting the health and wellbeing of young people, and in December of 2011 Key Stage 4 was accredited with having achieved it’s first year’s goals as a Healthy School.

Key Stage 4 has an elected school council,with representatives from each teaching group that plays an active role in setting, and working towards, our Healthy Schools targets.

Our School Council have identified the following targets:

  1. To help young people who would like to stop smoking
  2. To encourage young people to eat a healthier diet
  3. To create an emotionally supportive school

Some of the practical ways in which we are working towards our targets are:

  • Having readily available drinking water in each of our classrooms
  • Replacing our tuck shop with a fruit selection
  • Having access to a Barnardo’s schools-based counsellor
  • Establishing a School Council so that pupils can get their voice heard
  • Embedding emotional literacy into our curriculum
  • Staff training on SEAL and ELSA courses