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Healthy Schools Celebrating Success Updated

Welcome to the Hertfordshire Healthy Schools Programme Celebrating Success booklet. This is the first booklet that has been produced following the introduction of new local arrangements that began in April 2011.

I am delighted to inform you that schools appearing in this booklet have confirmed their ongoing commitment to the Hertfordshire Healthy Schools Programme.

The schools featured have completed a whole school review which evidences how the school is addressing health and wellbeing for its school community in a whole school approach. The completion of the whole school review has confirmed their status as a Hertfordshire Healthy School.

Involvement in the Hertfordshire Healthy Schools Programme provides robust health and wellbeing evidence for Ofsted inspections across all four key judgements.

The programme works on a school improvement cycle so that schools are able to focus on identified priorities. A future special edition Celebrating Success booklet will share the practice of these priorities.

Completion of a whole school review marks a significant achievement for schools and they are to be congratulated on their success.

Liz Biggs
Lead Adviser Health and Wellbeing

Celebrating Success Moderation Booklet

As part of the Healthy Schools national quality assurance process, Hertfordshire is required to moderate 10% of schools that have self validated in each academic year.

This booklet celebrates the work of the four schools that were selected randomly to be moderated for the academic year 2009/10. The purpose of the visits was to identify, celebrate and disseminate effective practice and to also assure national and local stakeholders of rigorous quality assurance.

The visits focussed on outcomes within two of the four Healthy Schools themes. The theme chosen by the Hertfordshire Healthy Schools Programme for the academic year 2009/10 was Emotional Health & Wellbeing and the criteria for all schools were

“Has a clear policy on bullying, which is owned, understood and implemented by the whole school community”

The second focus was chosen by the school.

It was evident from the visits that Hertfordshire schools are continuing to maintain and enhance their commitment to the Healthy Schools programme. Excellent work was identified and some of the effective practice is celebrated in this booklet.

I would like to send my congratulations to all the schools featured and wish them every success with their future developments.

Liz Biggs
Health & Wellbeing Team Leader