In July 2009 the school achieved its Healthy Schools Status after a number of years of trying to ensure the four areas met the criteria. In many respects, the school works hard to ensure that the wellbeing and healthy life styles of all associated with it are at the forefront of raising the profile and achievements.

The four areas included in the Healthy School status are, Healthy Eating, Personal Social Health and Education, Physical Activity and Emotional Well-being. In each of the criteria there are a series of expectations which need to be met and evidence for each of theses bullet points has to be documented. The key out comes are met with evidence, data and specific examples of how initiatives have supported each of the four areas in the status.

Gathering the evidence meant meetings with the key people linked to the four areas and, as a school that strongly believes that, every child matters meant, that there was a wealth of evidence in all the sections.

Now the status is achieved, we have to maintain the outcomes which will be our evidence when we are monitored by the team overseeing Healthy Schools. It is their role to explore the evidence in the four sections and speak to the people associated with them, ensuring that the each section is being maintained.

We have been asked by the county to join a pilot for Enhanced Healthy Schools, which encourages us as a school to focus on an area within the four sections which needs attention. This is an excellent opportunity for us to create our own expectations and outcomes, which will ultimately raise the quality of life around school, which in turn will feed into raising achievements and standards.

Anne Stairmand
Assistant Headteacher