Partnership Agreement

Schools are encouraged to:

1. Identify a named co-ordinator to lead Healthy Schools work and to liaise with Cornwall Healthy Schools once a term, through a visit, by email or by telephone. We recommend that, to carry out the role effectively, the co-ordinator is allocated free time and support from a named SMT member (where appropriate and practicable) and a named governor.
2. Make a clear commitment to planning and delivering Healthy Schools work using the Whole School Approach. We recommend that Healthy Schools be put on the agenda occasionally at staff meetings, governors' meetings and the school council or pupil parliament.
3. Identify an ongoing cycle of Healthy Schools work linked to school improvement in the School Development Action Plan or Vision Action Plan (as appropriate).
4. Make full use of the Healthy Schools website and the online audit of the forty-one criteria. We recommend that the school complete the online audit, recording evidence (in bullet points) and clear information about the location of key documents such as policies. This is good practice for the audit trail, it provides accessible evidence to substantiate self-validation and delineates a clear pathway for the moderation process.
5. Provide copies of relevant policy documents to Cornwall Healthy Schools.
6. Meet with the School Support Worker to discuss and plan baseline measurements for desired and achievable outcomes.
7. Co-ordinator to attend appropriate Healthy Schools training (once a year, minimum).
8. Share practice the school is proud of, or would like to share, for programme evaluation.
9. Complete occasional evaluation questionnaires to enable us to review and improve our service to schools.
10. Agree to a validation visit prior to submitting self-validation, or agree to a post-validation celebration visit using the moderation model.