Whole-school appoach to healthy living
The DCSF wants schools to give pupils consistent messages about all aspects of health issues through a whole-school approach to health, helping them understand the effect of particular behaviours on their own health and encourage them to take responsibility for their own health.
Some of the advantages of taking this approach across the entire school community are that it:
- Reinforces appropriate messages relating to food and
drink, and nutrition, e.g. ensuring consistency between the formal curriculum and food provision so emphasising
healthy-eating messages
- Shows that your school is caring to all stakeholders and the wider
community by making a public statement of the values to which the school is
committed
- Communicates a school's shared vision, ethos and values (whole-school approach)
- Establishes effective working partnerships, working towards a common goal
