Celebrating healthy Wokingham schools
Pupils across the Wokingham Borough celebrated their Healthy Schools Status at a special celebration event on July 9.
To qualify, Wokingham Borough schools had to develop their whole school approach to health and education and meet the criteria for all four of the programme’s themes: personal, social and health education; emotional health and well-being; healthy eating and physical activity. And they must demonstrate how they involved the whole school community in the initiative. They were congratulated on their Healthy School Status by Wokingham Borough Council’s Deputy Mayor Cllr Barrie Patman.
To mark the success of schools on the programme, the celebration event saw the latest 17 schools to achieve the status attend a celebration event. The schools that achieved Healthy School Status were: Bearwood Primary, Beechwood Primary, Finchampstead CE Primary, Gorse Ride Infant, Hillside Primary, Hawkedon Primary, Highwood Primary, Lambs Lane Primary, Oaklands Infant, Oaklands Junior, St Nicholas CE Primary, Woodley CE Primary, Wescott Infant, The Bulmershe, The Forest, The Holt and Ryeish Green.
Rosie Webb, Wokingham curriculum development adviser: healthy schools, said: “Whole school communities including teachers and pupils have embraced the rigorous National Healthy Schools Standards. Each school was represented at the special celebration event by members of their healthy schools task groups. The children and young people from each school made a presentation to the invited dignitaries and guests to share their excellent ideas and projects which have gained them Healthy Schools Status.
“We enjoyed hearing about everything from vegetable gardens to peer mediation projects. The children and young people as always were the stars of the show – inspiring us with their wonderful ideas and their professional presentations. The schools also displayed their work towards Healthy Schools Status and the whole event was buzzing with enthusiasm and success.”
Deputy Wokingham Mayor Cllr Barrie Patman presented the schools with their National Healthy Schools plaques and certificates as well as balloons and goody bags. He said: “We are very proud that so many schools have come so far and achieved so much as Healthy Schools. Thank you to all who have committed their time, energy and enthusiasm to this work, and long may it continue.
“The Healthy Schools Programme has come a long way since it was introduced in the Wokingham Borough in 2000.”
To qualify, Wokingham Borough schools had to develop their whole school approach to health and education and meet the criteria for all four of the programme’s themes: personal, social and health education; emotional health and well-being; healthy eating and physical activity. And they must demonstrate how they involved the whole school community in the initiative. They were congratulated on their Healthy School Status by Wokingham Borough Council’s Deputy Mayor Cllr Barrie Patman.
To mark the success of schools on the programme, the celebration event saw the latest 17 schools to achieve the status attend a celebration event. The schools that achieved Healthy School Status were: Bearwood Primary, Beechwood Primary, Finchampstead CE Primary, Gorse Ride Infant, Hillside Primary, Hawkedon Primary, Highwood Primary, Lambs Lane Primary, Oaklands Infant, Oaklands Junior, St Nicholas CE Primary, Woodley CE Primary, Wescott Infant, The Bulmershe, The Forest, The Holt and Ryeish Green.
Rosie Webb, Wokingham curriculum development adviser: healthy schools, said: “Whole school communities including teachers and pupils have embraced the rigorous National Healthy Schools Standards. Each school was represented at the special celebration event by members of their healthy schools task groups. The children and young people from each school made a presentation to the invited dignitaries and guests to share their excellent ideas and projects which have gained them Healthy Schools Status.
“We enjoyed hearing about everything from vegetable gardens to peer mediation projects. The children and young people as always were the stars of the show – inspiring us with their wonderful ideas and their professional presentations. The schools also displayed their work towards Healthy Schools Status and the whole event was buzzing with enthusiasm and success.”
Deputy Wokingham Mayor Cllr Barrie Patman presented the schools with their National Healthy Schools plaques and certificates as well as balloons and goody bags. He said: “We are very proud that so many schools have come so far and achieved so much as Healthy Schools. Thank you to all who have committed their time, energy and enthusiasm to this work, and long may it continue.
“The Healthy Schools Programme has come a long way since it was introduced in the Wokingham Borough in 2000.”
Wokingham Borough Council
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