Welcome to Northamptonshire Healthy Schools
Northamptonshire Healthy Schools: Committed to Promoting Healthier Living and Learning
Welcome to Northamptonshire Healthy Schools: Committed to Promoting Healthier Living and Learning
Welcome to our new look health4schools website. The website has been live since 2001 and continues to support Northamptonshire schools by providing a range of support materials and information on training, how to achieve Healthy Schools Status and resources.

The Northamptonshire Healthy Schools Programme is managed and delivered at a local level and is a partnership between Northamptonshire Teaching Primary Care Trust and Northamptonshire County Council Children and Young People's Service. The aim of the Healthy Schools Team is to work directly with schools providing advice and support in planning and achieving Healthy Schools Status.
 
 
Click here to continue your online audit or to register onto the National Healthy Schools Programme Pupil Surveys
Support includes:
-Developing an individual action plan
-Audit tools that identify strengths and areas for
 development
-Advice, support and signposting
-Advice on how to evidence the Healthy Schools
 four key themes
-Providing an application / assessment procedure
 for gaining status

Northamptonshire Healthy Schools also offers a web-based pupil survey tool that enables schools to gauge student opinion relating to a number of areas within the four key themes.

The Healthy Schools Team recommends and encourages each school to complete pupil surveys as part of their work towards Healthy Schools Status. The surveys will provides information regarding the attitudes and experiences of students and will also contribute towards quantative outcomes when schools complete their self validation.

Celebration events are held with either individual schools or as a much larger ceremony hosted by the Healthy Schools Team to celebrate schools achieving their Healthy School Status. Schools are also encouraged to share their areas of good practice with other schools.
 
Latest News
27/01/2010 - Breakfast Club Awards 2010
Is your breakfast club something to be proud of? Do you know of a breakfast club whose good work should be celebrated? If so, enter the 2010 National Breakfast Club Plus Awards, and you could win £2,000.
20/01/2010 - National Growing Schools Conference
National Growing Schools Conference - "Growing the Future" Thursday 25th March 2010 at the University of Oxford Botanic Garden. A range of workshops to include: • Allotments and vegetable growing • Royal Horticultural Society • Primary and secondary education based tours of the University of Oxford Botanic Garden • School Farms Network • Hot Art • National Association of Field Studies Officers • Organising LOtC visits, risk assessments and HASLOC
10/11/2009 - Regional Change4Life Seminars
Regional Change4Life Seminars for Local Supporters Does your work with children, young people have a role in supporting them to make healthier choices? If it does, sign up for one of the Change4Life seminars now.

Northamptonshire Healthy Schools also provides a
confidential online support service for teenagers called
Healthm8 and is being well used for drugs, alcohol, tobacco and sex and relationships information. The question and answering service is very popular in all areas.

This resource can support PSHE work in schools. Promotional material is available - pens, credit cards,
postcards or posters contact us on 01327 708168 or email the Healthy Schools Team.