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
19/07/2010 - Theatre&
Regional Winner of 2009 Yorkshire and the Humber National Training Awards
07/06/2010 - More Information Regarding The Global Children's Challenge!
Supported by the legendary Colin Jackson, CBE, the Global Children’s Challenge is a health initiative designed to help children from all over the world get more active and instil in them the lifetime habit of increased daily exercise. This is achieved in a truly unique & engaging way – by challenge primary school classes to undertake a virtual walk around the world in 8 weeks!
07/06/2010 - Global Children's Challenge
The Global Corporate Challenge is the largest corporate health initiative in the world and runs from 20 May 2010 to 7 September 2010. Developed for workplaces and organisations around the world, it can help get your staff engaged, active, healthy and more productive.

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.