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The National Healthy Schools Programme is a joint initiative between the Department of Health and the Department for Children, Schools and Families, supporting links between health, behaviour and achievement. The Northamptonshire Healthy Schools Programme is managed 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 aims of the National programme are:

• To support children and young people in developing healthy behaviour
• To help raise the achievement of children and young people
• To help reduce health inequalities
• To help promote social inclusion
• Creating healthy and happy children and young people who, as a result, do better in
  learning and in life.

The programme has a whole school approach involving not just the teachers and students but also includes governors and parents and the wider community focusing on four key themes.
 
 
 

Within the four key themes there are 10 elements to ensure full engagement of the whole school community

• Leadership, management and managing change
• Policy development
• Curriculum planning and work with outside agencies
• Teaching and learning
• School culture and environment
• Giving children and young people a voice
• Provision of pupil support services
• Staff professional development needs, health and welfare
• Partnerships with parents/carers and local communities
• Assessing, recording and reporting children and young peoples’ achievement

The local Healthy Schools Advisors, working with the Learning Achievement and School Improvement Team (LA&SI), will provide full support and information to schools in order to help them plan and achieve each stage. The support can include help with target setting, needs assessments and pupil surveys, to ensure the schools have completed all areas of the four core themes. A wide range of training programmes are also offered to schools that includes supply cover.

To receive National Healthy Schools Status schools have to meet the criteria as set out in the National Audit Tool.

If you would like to join the National Healthy Schools Programme or would like to speak to an advisor please contact the Northamptonshire Healthy Schools office on 01327 708168.