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How do I
become a Healthy School?
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The process involved to becoming a Healthy School
consists of eight steps, as detailed below: |
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Celebrate
achievements and develop ways to build on the minimum
criteria in the future. |
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Prepare for
moderation
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Self-Validate:
send in a completed Audit Tool and Sign Off Sheet. Set
a moderation date and be clear about how you will evidence
achievement for each criterion. |
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Identify staff professional development needs and use the
support offered within each of the four themes. |
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Use the areas
identified to set realistic, achievable and measurable
targets. Identify potential links with existing
priority areas and curriculum areas. Liaise with
Maggie Sims and send in Audit Tool/Action Plan |
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Use
the local
Audit Tool to identify a baseline and identify
areas for development; these will for the Action Plan. |
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Set
up a task group with input from a range of the following:
senior management, staff (plus non-teaching), pupils,
governors, parents/carers, school health nurse, catering
staff, Connexions (KS3/4) |
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Gain commitment for Healthy Schools from your school
community and senior management team. |
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Make contact
with your local Healthy Schools Programme Co-ordinator:
Maggie Sims on 0117 330 2429 or e-mail
avonsafe@sglos-pct.nhs.uk |
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The Healthy Schools Team - Moderation Process
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Once a school has reached step 8
(this is the point which the school are confident that within
each theme the minimum criteria have been met), and send a copy
of their completed Audit Tool/Action Plan with their
Self-Validation Sheet signed, a date will be made for members of
the Healthy Schools Team to visit the school in a
'moderation' role. A set of questions and a programme
for the visit will be sent into school. As part of the
moderation visit key people will be asked questions within each
theme; hopefully children/young people will conduct a tour of
the school and a school lunch provided. It would also be
good practice to meet with the school council, a governor and
parent representatives, where possible. A short report
will be written up and sent into the school shortly after the
moderation visit. This report will acknowledge the
strengths of the school in relation to the minimum criteria and
where necessary suggest/make recommendations for any criteria
that are part of an on going Action Plan.
When schools self-validate, having met the minimum criteria, the
relevant information will be entered on the National Health
Schools database.
School will be awarded 'Healthy Schools Status' and this
will be kept for a maximum of three years before needing further
moderated.
The Regional Co-ordinator will be responsible for the quality
assurance of each Local Authority programme and may also request
to visit some schools in the area. |
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