The Healthy Schools Enhancement Model
Date: 17 Oct 2009
The Healthy Schools Enhancement Model
The way schools maintain their Healthy School Status has changed.
The developments address new national and local drivers around the health and wellbeing of children and young people and link to policy developments and inspection requirements in schools, such as the new SEF, Ofsted's Pupil Wellbeing Indicators and the 21st Century Schools agenda.
The Healthy Schools Enhancement Model will provide both a universal and a targeted approach to pupil wellbeing by building on the foundations of the current Healthy School standard (to be maintained via an Annual Review centred on the whole school approach) and by offering schools the challenge of meeting specific needs-led healthier behaviour outcomes.
Enhancement will have a profound effect on the way schools help improve the health and wellbeing of their pupils, will be a key part of the work of a 21st Century School and will cement links with extended schools.
Because of the work of our programme, the success of our schools and our trailblazing work in developing and implementing HS Plus, the Swindon Healthy Schools Team have been working closely with the National Healthy Schools Team on the development of the enhancement model. At all times during its development the needs of schools have been placed at the heart of the process and here in Swindon we firmly believe that the changes will be, for schools, a natural extension of achievement to date.
