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April 26, 2007
GHS Forum/ QUAG Meeting 30th April
Please find attached the agenda for the GHS Forum/ Quality Assurance Group on 30th April.
The minutes of the last meeting can be downloaded HERE.
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School Food Trust Update
Three documents of interest;
SFT Letter to Stakeholders
Updated Parent's Guide
School Lunch Guide
What do you think of the new school meals? Click on 'comments' and let us know...
Posted by Tom Hall at 03:18 PM | Comments (0)
Your Child's Weight Matters
The Government has developed a booklet for parents: “Why your child’s weight matters”, which includes information for parents about:
• The National Child Measurement Programme
• Why maintaining a healthy weight is important
• Steps that parents can take to help their family lead a healthy lifestyle
You can download the booklet HERE or contact Health Promotion Resources on 0191 4335684 for your copy.
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NHSP E-Bulletin April
Please find attached the National Healthy Schools Programme E-bulletin for April.
April E-Bulletin
Making Sense of Health Document
Schoolchildren for Children
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April 24, 2007
GHS Lead Teachers Meeting
Good morning all and welcome to Gateshead Healthy School's Lead Teachers Meeting.
Below are this morning's 4 Tasks that I'd like you to complete in your groups.
Task One
Download the National Healthy School Programme QA National Audit Document and save into the computer's 'My Documents' file.
Task Two
Search the weblog for the PESSCL School Sport Survey 2005/6 results for Gateshead. What are your school's average minutes of PE per week?
Task Three
Using the left-hand 'Explore' banner find your Core Team representative and post them a message using the 'Comments' function.
Task Four
As a group decide 3 things that you would like to get out of the weblog. Post your 3 points on the blog using the 'Comments' function below.
Happy blogging!
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April 20, 2007
PE and School Sport Update - Summer Term
Welcome back to the start of another busy term.
I hope that this “Update” will provide you with useful information to support your work, in teaching Physical Education.
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April 19, 2007
Gateshead Schools' Skipping Festival 2007
Thirteen schools and over 300 young people took part in this years "Skipping Festival" held on Tuesday 27th February 2007, at the Gateshead Leisure Centre, Maple Hall.
This years 'festival' was well attended by parents and spectators who raised over £100 towards the British Heart foundation charity. The festival including several new schools; provided a programme of some complex routines, which showed the ability of young performers.
Download Festival Article (PDF:621KB)
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April 13, 2007
North East Smoke Free Schools
Here is a case study highlighting the excellent work conducted in the North East region on Smoke Free Schools . All the more reason to get involved in September if you haven't already!
Enjoy and share with others!
Posted by Tom Hall at 04:43 PM | Comments (0)
Does Healthy Schools support ECM?
You may be interested, and be able to put to good use, the latest HeadSpace research into Healthy Schools. As you may know, HeadSpace is organised by the Guardian newspaper and EdComms and is completed by a sample of 1000 headteachers every term. A large number of topics are covered and we paid for the following question to be inserted:
Has the Healthy Schools programme supported your school in helping your pupils achieve the five Every Child Matters outcomes? Please indicate the outcomes that the programme has supported, if any at all
The answers are, we think, very positive.
> Being Healthy - 86%
> Staying safe - 59%
> Enjoying and achieving - 58%
> Making a postive contribution - 51%
> Achieving economic well-being - 31%
> Not supported any - 6%
> Don't know - 2%
> Not involved in HS Prog - 5%
> No answer - 1%
This is very encouraging and largely in line with our own internal assessment of what schools should be getting from the programme.
Colin Noble
National Coordinator Healthy Schools Programme Delivery Unit
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