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The Healthy Schools Award

From June 2025, we are shifting to a self-assessed audit for schools. The excel document for the bronze award is on the Swindon Schools hub website. The three-tier award (bronze, silver and gold), takes a progressive approach and at each level recognising the additional measures schools have taken to:

Address and identify national and local health priorities
Ensure health and wellbeing are key areas of school improvement
Prioritise the most disadvantaged children and young people
Support other schools by sharing practice
Support staff wellbeing
Identify and tackle key priorities and meet the challenges set by Ofsted
Encourage close work with parents/carers and the wider community to bring about changes in health behaviours.

The three-tier self-assed award consists of:

Bronze level - this is awarded to schools that complete the self-assessed excel bronze healthy schools award audit tool.
Silver level - in addition to holding a Bronze Award, your school will need to analyse pupils’ needs, and identify actions to help improve an aspect of health and wellbeing of your pupils, e.g. maintain a healthy weight, healthy lifestyle or improve emotional wellbeing. This includes a targeted approach and one school-wide action, and your school will need to make plans for how the changes will be delivered and measured. Silver level paperwork.
Gold level - in addition to holding the Silver Award,your school will need to show the impact of the changes you have made and that these are sustainable. Your school will need to show how it has engaged the wider community, and supported others to help pupils maintain; healthy weight, healthy lifestyle or emotional wellbeing, including that of the school staff. Gold level paperwork.

We are now encouraging Swindon Schools to work towards the national Whole School and College Approach Toolkit: Whole School and College Approach (WSCA) Measurement Toolkit - WSCA However, if you have already started working on your Swindon Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing Award, do email it through to us as it will still absolutely be valid.