Healthy Schools Plus

Following the successful pilot of Healthy Schools Plus in Swindon and the learning we have taken from it, we are continuing to use Healthy Schools Plus alongside the Annual Audit as the way schools can choose to gain and maintain Healthy School status in Swindon.

The way we implement Healthy Schools Plus will change to make it easier to use and more flexible to schools' needs whilst supporting schools to make a real, measurable difference to the health and wellbeing of children and young people.

In this section of the website we have two sub-sectiond, the first relating to the pilot and aiming to support schools still involved in the pilot and the second taking Healthy Schools Plus forward for new schools wanting to be involved.

Healthy Schools Plus aims to:

- identify and address local health priorities

- ensure that health and wellbeing are key areas of school improvement

- prioritise the most disadvantaged children and young people

- support schools to encourage children and young people to embrace healthier behaviour

- build on the success of healthy schools

- help schools identify and tackle their key health priorities

- and work closely with parents, carers and the wider community to bring about healthier behaviours.

Recognition

In January 2011 we held a Celebration Event at Penhill Primary School where sixteen schools were awarded recognition of their success on the Healthy Schools Plus Project. We had presentations from: The Ridgeway School Secondary School, Robert Le Kyng Primary School, Seven Fields Primary School and Highworth Warneford Secondary School on the work they have been doing to reduce health inequality in Emotional Health and Well Being, Sexual Health and Healthy Weight.

Partners attended from Swindon Borough Council, NHS Swindon and Wiltshire Police and were all very impressed with the work schools have been doing to reduce health inequalities. Read more about the celebration event