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Healthy Schools Celebrating Success Updated

Welcome to the ninth edition of the Hertfordshire Healthy Schools Programme Celebrating Success booklet. I am delighted to inform you that all the schools appearing in this edition of the booklet have met the criteria for National Healthy School Status. All the schools featured in this booklet are to be congratulated on their success.

In order to be recognised as achieving status, schools are required to meet criteria in:

• the four core themes of Personal, Social and Health Education (including sex and relationships education and drug education),
• Healthy Eating,
• Physical Activity
• Emotional Health and Well Being.

This will be the last booklet that recognises National Healthy School Status. Future editions of Celebrating Success will highlight schools who have continued to maintain status as part of the new arrangements of the Hertfordshire Healthy Schools Programme introduced in April 2011.

The Hertfordshire Healthy Schools Programme will also be recognising and celebrating those schools who have achieved outcomes on a school identified priority.

Liz Biggs
Health & Wellbeing Team Leader
January 2012

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