Healthy Schools Initiative
We have achieved the Healthy School Award. Our three chosen action areas are: Healthy Eating, Physical Exercise and Drugs, Alcohol and Tobacco. Following are some of achievements and initiatives now firmly in place in our day to day life at school.
The pupils have worked hard in Food Tech on how to have a healthy diet; we have designed and made our own healthy alternatives. Our Breakfast Club is very popular and the hub of school gossip. We developed our breakfast menu by talking to the children about their likes and dislikes and between us we have developed a healthy and tasty start to the day. We eat as a whole school at lunchtime and have reviewed our menus, again in consultation with the children - raw vegetables and dips have become a new favourite in addition to our popular home cooked lunches. In the Tuck Shop at breaktimes we sell healthy snacks which are baked on the premises and will also be trying out alternatives, such as fresh fruit salad.
We encourage many links with outside agencies to develop the children’s education and awareness of the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse as part of our PSHE programme.
We try to incorporate as many physical activities as we can in our curriculum, including a summer outdoor education scheme. This means that all pupils are taken off site and take part in activities such as tennis, biking, canoeing, sailing, swimming, skiing, golf, horse riding and more. We run a multi stage fitness program, health related program and studied the effects of exercise.
