Healthy Schools Sheffield

The Sheffield Healthy Schools Programme is a partnership between health (NHS Sheffield) and education (Sheffield City Council), providing support to schools to help them to become healthier, safer and more enjoyable places for both pupils and staff to learn and work.

A healthy school promotes the health and well-being of its pupils and staff through a well-planned, taught curriculum in a physical and emotional environment that promotes learning and healthy lifestyle choices.

Initially schools should achieve National Healthy Schools Status (NHSS) through focussing on four criteria areas:

• Personal, social and health education including sex and relationship and drugs education
• Healthy eating
• Physical activity
• Emotional health and well-being

NHSS is then maintained through an Annual Review (AR) which is also the gateway into the Healthy Schools enhancement model.

The Healthy Schools enhancement model involves building on the solid foundation of NHSS and the AR in order to prioritise better outcomes around health and well-being for children and young people, with particular focus on providing targeted support for those who are most at risk.

Healthy Schools enhancement model

Many Sheffield schools are now well underway in planning the process and initiatives which will take them into the Healthy Schools enhancement model.

The Healthy Schools enhancement model has been designed to help schools to develop wider thinking and planning in order to achieve better outcomes around health and well-being for children and young people, with particular focus on providing targeted support for those who are most at risk. The enhancement model provides schools with rigorous health and well-being evidence for school improvements plans and the Ofsted self-evaluation form (SEF).

Annual review

The annual review is a website-based tool to help schools to maintain the foundation of health and well-being which you have already achieved through National Healthy School Status (NHSS). It will help schools to check whether the Healthy Schools work done in school is being embedded through the whole school approach.

Health and well-being improvement tool

The health and well-being improvement tool (HWIT) is the planning tool which takes schools stage-by-stage through the planning and recording of their work as part of the Healthy Schools enhancement model.

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