Health For Life

The Health for Life programme promotes an ethos and environment which encourages a proactive approach to developing a healthy lifestyle. We focus on growing food, healthy eating and cooking, physical activity and try to involve families as much as possible in the process. See the objectives of this programme below. 

To engage pupils in growing food to increase their knowledge and understanding of its links with a healthy lifestyle.

Examples could include: 

• Create or extend a school garden for growing fruit and/or vegetables. Can also look at sustainability such as saving seeds; rotating  crops; harvesting rainwater; using school-produced compost, wormeries
• Use allotments for growing fruit and/or vegetables
• Fruit and vegetable growing in containers such as hanging baskets, troughs, ‘funny’ containers
• Planting fruit trees
• Build raised beds
• Build greenhouse
• To make a measurable improvement in the diet of school children through cooking and healthy eating activities.
• To make a measurable increase in the amount of regular physical activity of pupils in order to promote a healthy lifestyle.

To make a measurable improvement in the diet of school children through cooking and healthy eating activities.

Examples could include: 

• Development of a recipe book for use in schools and at home
• Making healthy soups, drinks, picnics snack foods
• Cooking competitions between schools (with focus on healthy eating)
• Practical cooking lessons (with focus on healthy eating) with pupils
• Practical lessons on cooking through the ages (with focus on healthy eating)

To make a measurable increase in the amount of regular physical activity of pupils in order to promote a healthy lifestyle.

Examples could include: 

• Active play in school grounds
• Play leader training (and implementation) for pupils
• Cycle training – Bikeability, Bike it
• Walk to school/scooter to school
• Build bike/scooter racks