HEALTH PROMOTING SCHOOL IN CONTEXT

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HEALTH PROMOTING SCHOOL IN CONTEXT

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• HMIe Self Evaluation Series
• The Health Promoting School -
• Nov 2004
• The characteristics of the Being Well-Doing Well
  Feb 2004
• document are the same as in the self evaluation
  HGIOS
• document
• This document is part of the self evaluation
  series with a
• specific focus on the Health Promoting School.
• .

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Current Publications to Support the Health
Promoting School

• Being Well Doing Well Feb 2004
• Sets out the national framework for the HPS
• identifying the 6 key characteristics
• Leadership and Management
• Ethos
• Curriculum Learning and Teaching
• Environment Facilities and Resources
• Partnership Working
• Personal Social and Health Education Programme

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Coordinated Health Programmes are a Solution

• Health through the Health Promoting Schools
  concept is an opportunity for schools to engage
  in a process of continuous improvement where
  achievement and attainment will be directly
  influenced.

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Good Health and a Healthy Environment are
necessary for Achievement/Attainment

• It is difficult for children and young people in
• school to be successful if they are
• Depressed
• Excluded
• Poor Attendance
• Tired
• Being bullied
• Stressed
• Using alcohol or other drugs
• Hungry
• Abused
• Restricted, disorganised or confused

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HMIe HGIOS Series

• The quality Indicators that link directly to
• Health Promoting Schools are
• Curriculum
• Attainment
• Learning and Teaching
• Support for Pupils
• Ethos
• Resources
• Management Leadership and Quality Assurance

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Linked Agendas

• Inclusion
• Staff Welfare
• Citizenship
• Enterprise
• Food in Schools
• Physical Activity
• Drugs/ Tobacco Issues
• Sexual Health
• Care and Welfare
• Links with Parents

• Eco Friendly Schools
• Anti-bullying
• School Estate Strategy
• Integrated Community Schools
• Nursing in Schools
• School, Travel Plans
• Health and Safety
• Community Development

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Expected Outcomes of Co-ordinated School Health
Programmes

• Engage parents, teachers, students, families and
  communities
• Help keep children and young people healthy
• Support learning and success
• Reinforce positive behaviour
• Help students develop knowledge and skills to
  make positive life choices

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Health Promoting Schools must be a Whole School
Approach

• Learning and Health of children and young
  people is a prerequisite for educational
  achievement. Good health of teachers is
  important to the development of effective
  schools. Health promoting schools aim at
  empowering students, staff and parents to
  actively influence their lives and their living
  conditions
• Education and Health in Partnership
• European Conference 2002

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• A health promoting school is one in which all
  members of the school community work together to
  provide pupils with integrated, positive
  experiences and structures which promote and
  protect health. This includes both the formal
  and informal curriculum in health, the creation
  of a safe and healthy school environment, the
  provision of appropriate health services and the
  involvement of the family and the wider community
  in efforts to promote health
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  (WHO, 1995)

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Making the Connections

• Health is at the centre of student
• achievement.
• Children who face violence, hunger,
• substance abuse, and despair cannot
• possibly focus on academic excellence.
• There is no curriculum brilliant enough to
• compensate for a hungry stomach or
• distracted mind
• National Action Plan for Comprehensive Scho
  ol Health Education. 1992

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The Fife Health Promoting School Development

• Fifes approach to accreditation
• 3 year plan
• Phase 1 Core Criteria
• Phase 2 The Card Game

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Core Criteria

• Registration
• Named Coordinator
• Awareness Raising
• Self Evaluation
• Consultation with the school nurse
• School Development Plan
• Mission Statement

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Card Game

• Priorities set out on playing cards (clear links
  to the QIs)
• Cards selected by school
• Evaluation of existing good practice
• Focus to improve on identified areas
• These aspects put forward for accreditation
• Process on the school development plan
• Assessment
• Paper evidence assessed
• Certificates dated to be renewed in a 3 year
  cycle

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Some of the benefits

• Approachablefun
• Whole school approach
• More than a management tool
• Quality indicators referenced in card game
• Non prescriptiveeach individual school is unique
• Linking existing work not creating more work
• Multi-agency development linking to sustainable
  support for implementing scheme

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• Benefits to your School Community
• Health and success in school are interrelated.
  Schools cannot achieve their primary mission of
  education if students and staff are not healthy
  and fit physically, mentally and socially
• Fit, Healthy, and Ready to Learn Part 1
  Physical Activity, Healthy Eating, and
  Tobacco Use Prevention, 2000

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The Child at the Centre

• The question to ask as educators is, are our
  learning environments conducive for learning?

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• Health promotion in schools is a journey.
• not a destination!
• Health Promoting Schools Team

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