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Healthy Schools
Our vision
We want all children and young people to be healthy and achieve at school and in life. We believe that by providing opportunities at school for enhancing physical and emotional health and wellbeing, we will improve long term health, reduce health inequalities, increase social inclusion and raise achievement for all.
Our aims
To deliver real benefits for children and young people, specifically:
• to support children and young people in developing healthy behaviours • to help reduce health inequalities
• to help promote social inclusion • to help raise the achievement of
children and young people.
Our targets
The Government has set a target that all schools will be participating in the National Healthy Schools Programme by 2009 and that 75 percent of schools will have achieved National Healthy School Status.
“A healthy lifestyle will help you perform better in school and in life”
The National Healthy Schools Programme has four core themes:
• Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE), including SRE and drugs education
• Healthy Eating
• Physical Activity
• Emotional Health and Wellbeing, including bullying.
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