Bryan Slater Director of Education	Distribution
	Headteachers of all schools

This document needs your action as detailed below:

ACTION	Title	Distribution of Healthy Schools publications and clarification of Healthy Schools status for Norfolk schools
	Summary of contents	Letter enclosing Healthy Schools publications and explaining schools’ entitlement to display the Healthy Norfolk Schools certificate and to use the Healthy Schools logo
	Associated documents	‘Promoting Emotional Health and Wellbeing’ and ‘Promoting Children’s and Young People’s Participation’ Copies of both these publications can be downloaded via the following website: http://www.wiredforhealth.gov.uk/
	Date	13 October 2004
	Summary of action required	Distribute new Healthy Schools documents to appropriate members of staff. Establish whether or not the school is entitled to use the Healthy Schools logo and ensure that the logo and certificate being displayed are current. Contact Healthy Schools team for guidance if needed.
	To be completed by	None
	LEA Contact	Adèle Godsmark	(	01603 433276
	E-mail address	healthy.schools@norfolk.gov.uk
	Norfolk Self Review reference	2. How effective is the school in developing pupils’ attitudes, values and personal development? 5. How well does the school care for its pupils?
	Document reference	MI 187-04

I am pleased to be able to send you copies of two documents that have recently been produced by the National Healthy Schools Team. They relate to Promoting Emotional Health and Wellbeing and Promoting Children’s and Young People’s Participation. These documents are the result of research and collaboration by a wide range of professionals and focus on the importance of addressing these areas if young people are to succeed. They give helpful background information to the two themes as well as suggesting a range of practical approaches that will help schools to implement them. The two documents are integral to The National Healthy School Standard which is promoted locally through Healthy Norfolk Schools. Many of you have, I know, already signed up to the local programme.

It is now ten years since the first schools in Norfolk began to embark on activities linked to Healthy Norfolk Schools. Hundreds of schools across the County have accessed training, developed action plans and embarked on activities to promote health and well-being.

Since Spring 2003 there has been a change in emphasis at a national level to ensure greater consistency across programmes throughout the country. We now have a national definition of involvement that schools are expected to work towards.

The current high level of interest in the links between children’s health and education has never been higher. There is now a national database charting schools’ involvement in local healthy schools programmes. Furthermore, Healthy Schools involvement is now a specific question on the OfSTED S4 form and so it is particularly important that schools are presenting their current level of involvement with the programme.

As a result of these changing circumstances the Healthy Norfolk Schools Executive has agreed that only schools that have re-registered their commitment to Healthy Schools since September 2003 are entitled to call themselves a “Healthy School” and to use the new logo. If you are uncertain about your current status regarding Healthy Schools please contact Adèle Godsmark.

There are currently over 100 schools in Norfolk which have registered during the last year and we know that many schools are continuing to develop health-related activities that are very much in the spirit of Healthy Schools. We anticipate that it will be a relatively straightforward process to support these schools to register their engagement in the programme thus allowing them to use the new logo and to describe themselves as participating in Healthy Schools. Schools that feel they have let their Healthy Schools activities lapse and wish to re-register should contact the Healthy Norfolk Schools Team who will be very willing to help.

I would encourage all Norfolk schools to consider joining the Healthy Norfolk Schools Programme. The current process is simple and very much linked to school self-review and ongoing school improvement planning. In return for their commitment, schools can access a range of free training and advice and support from the team. We particularly welcome applications from schools whose free school meal entitlement is greater than 20% (the National target schools), but the programme is open to all schools.

If you would like to discuss any aspect of the process for joining Healthy Schools please contact Adèle Godsmark on 01603 307356 or via the Professional Development Centre on 01603 433276.

I hope you will find the enclosed documents stimulating and helpful.

Yours sincerely

Bryan Slater

Director of Education