May 30, 2006

PSHE & C / Health School Coordinators - Diary Dates

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

June 12th - 16th
School Ground Week
Why not link it with your ECO School Awards and Environmental Challenge for 2006-2007.
Why not encourage your pupils to get outdoors and develop their school grounds.

For further information link with Learning through Landscapes Campaign: -
www.ltl.org.uk/programmes

June 19th - 25th
Child Safety Week
Visit www.capt.org.uk/csweek
For information of serious childhood accidents and how to prevent them.

June 23rd
Diana Memorial Award 2005-2006
Deadline for nominating a young person for their contribution to school, family or community.
Visit: www.diana-award.org.uk

July 3rd - 10th
G - Week
Celebrate pupils' achievements for charity and round off the academic year on a positive note.
Visit: www.g-nation.co.uk/teachers/gweek

Posted by Alun Davies at 09:23 AM | Comments (0)

May 23, 2006

Get Fruity for Cancer Prevention Week!

22nd – 28th May is Cancer Prevention Week, with the highlight of the campaign being Fruity Friday on Friday 26th May. The focus of the campaign this year is the 5 A DAY message, and how eating more fruit and vegetables can reduce your risk of cancer.

If you would like copies of campaign materials to help promote this campaign message, please contact the Health Promotion Resources Service for Gateshead on 0191 433 5684.
If you are doing anything for the campaign or if you have any comments about the resources…please let us know.

Posted by Tom Hall at 01:13 PM | Comments (0)

Balance It! Leaflet

This is a locally developed resource by a multi agency group, to promote a Healthy Balanced Diet based on the Balance of Good Health. This is now available from the Health Promotion Resource Service (Tel: 0191 433 5684) or can be downloaded below. Please feel free to use and share.

Download Balance It leaflet

Posted by Tom Hall at 01:11 PM | Comments (0)

Interested in what is going to be served up in schools?

Then you can download the New School Food Standards.

This includes the interim food-based standards (from Sept 06), the nutrient-based standards (from Sept 08 for primary schools and from Sept 09 for secondary and special schools), and the food-based standards (from Sept 08 for primary schools and from Sept 09 for secondary and special schools).

Trust me, it all makes more sense when you look at the document!

Posted by Tom Hall at 12:56 PM | Comments (0)

May 09, 2006

How do you measure success?...

Hello forum members.

For those of you who weren't there, at the Gateshead Healthy Schools Forum on Monday 8th May, I proposed a little exercise. As a core-team, we have been asked to look at the impact and outcomes of Gateshead Healthy Schools in more detail.

I will be looking at the information we already know about and can access. e.g. national evaluations, local data such as the Health Related Behaviour Questionnaires etc. What I am lacking is how you as a forum member measure your own success. Either individually or as a service.

It would really aid my information gathering process if you could take a minute to fill in the following proforma.

How do you measure success?

Either download the proforma, complete it electronically then email it to myself on tom.hall@ghpct.nhs.uk

Or download the proforma, print off, complete then post it to myself...
Tom Hall
Health Promotion Team
14 Regent Terrace
Gateshead
NE8 1LU

If I could have all completed proformas by 9th June 06 it would be much appreciated!

Posted by Tom Hall at 04:42 PM | Comments (0)

Food in Schools

Food – a fact of life, is a new, exciting website. The site is organised in two age phases 5 to 7 and 8 to 11.

For each of these phases, there is a teachers’ guide that provides lesson notes and explains how the resources can be used to cover curriculum objectives.

Each age phase contains a number of Key Facts. The Key Facts are key messages designed to ensure children develop a progressive understanding of healthy eating.

Colourful worksheets, Power Point slides, posters and interactive activities are just some of the free resources that will provide excellent support for teachers tackling the topic of healthy eating.

For further information visit – www.foodafactoflife.org.uk

Taste of Success – Active Kids – Get Cooking – is the new school cooking challenge open to all schools throughout 2006.

There are two categories for primary and secondary pupils.

For further details about prizes, entry requirement sand dates, visit the British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) website www.nutrition.org.uk/akgc

Posted by Alun Davies at 08:57 AM | Comments (0)

Child Safety Week : Monday 19th to Sunday 25th June 2006

Accidents are one of the biggest killers of children in the UK and put more children in hospital than any other cause.

However, many of these deaths and serious injuries can be prevented. Child Safety Week in the education campaign, raising awareness of serious childhood accidents and how to prevent them.

This years theme is “Avoid the worst. Put child safety first!�. The message is that everyone can be a ‘life-saver’ and even little things can make a different when it comes to preventing serious accidents to children.

For further information and resources visit:- Child Safety Week – website Or call 09065 151 436 (order line) or send for the Child Safety Week Resources Pack – Child Accident Prevention Trust, 22-26 Farringdon Lane, London EC1R 3AJ (send A4 stamped addressed envelope 61p). Orders by 12th June to guarantee delivery for Child Safety Week.

Posted by Alun Davies at 08:54 AM | Comments (0)