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May 25, 2007
Gateshead Nutrition Agreement
As part of the Nutrition Strategy for Gateshead, a NUTRITION AGREEMENT has been developed with key partners in relation to good practice in nutrition education and directly commissioned nutrition work. The aim of this is to have a consistent and joined up approach to all nutrition/healthy eating work that takes place in Gateshead, as part of a local area agreement. A key aim of the strategy is to promote consistent nutrition messages on healthy choices for adults and children. Nutrition education encompasses key healthy eating messages, local information about services and programmes, cooking skills, addressing the barriers to healthier food consumption such as attitudes, awareness, access and availability. In addition a supporting document stating the current key messages for nutrition has been produced.
The agreement has been made specific to commissioning independent agencies, and the CHECKLIST (appendix 1) is almost a good practice guide for individuals, groups or organisations such as schools that may invite in guest speakers or external agencies. The KEY MESSAGES LEAFLET (appendix 2) for professionals forms an appendix to both the agreement and checklist.
Please note an important piece on Salt in Food that was missed from the Key Messages leaflet:
Avoid foods such as roasted peanuts, crisps, canned soups and ready meals as these tend to contain lots of salt. The recommended salt intake for adults is less than 6g a day. 6g is equivalent to one level teaspoon of salt.
Posted by Tom Hall at 10:24 AM | Comments (0)
May 01, 2007
Sense - Growing Up and Keeping Safe CD-ROM
An interactive CD-ROM for primary schools aimed at Key Stage 2. This is the second in the series produced by
Sense Interactive CDs and NCB.
'Growing Up and Keeping Safe’ is designed to support the development of effective work to promote children’s emotional and social development, as well as provide specific information about different health issues. It is divided into five themes as set out in the Children Act 2004.
More information: www.sensecds.com
Posted by Melody at 11:52 AM | Comments (0)
Impact Case Study - Whickham School and Sports College
DfES PSHE Certification Programme
Impact Case Study
North East Of England
Regional Advisor – Linda Robinson
Whickham School is a large secondary school providing education for almost 1700 pupils who enter the school from a variety of catchment areas. The number of students eligible for free school meals is below the national average and the number of students from ethnic minority groups is very small. The school is popular and is annually over subscribed. PSHE was previously taught within the school by form tutors in an hour -long session once every two weeks. In Key Stage 4 there was the addition of a carousel where more specialised staff taught aspects of Careers, Citizenship, Drug Education and Sex and Relationships in modules of approximately 7 hours. The list of supporting staff included the resident school nurse and partner agencies. The school has gained the Gateshead Healthy school award five times and are currently working towards the National Healthy School Status.
Download Case Study [Word: 9MB]
Posted by Melody at 11:40 AM | Comments (0)
Personal, Social, Health Education and Citizenship Update
Welcome back to the start of another very busy term. I hope that this ‘Update’ will provide you with useful information to support your work teaching PSHE&C in Gateshead.
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