Becoming a Healthy School

To gain National Healthy School status, your school is asked to audit practice and provision against the forty-one criteria in the four core themes:

• Personal, social, health and economic education
• Healthy eating
• Physical activity
• Emotional health and wellbeing

Any gaps in the audit form the basis of an action plan which you can work on to a timetable suiting your needs.

You will also be asked to assess the impact of your Healthy Schools work on the health and wellbeing of the pupils and the wider school community by identifying a minimum of two outcomes for each core theme, one qualitative and one quantitative.

Once you feel that you have met at least the minimum requirements of the forty-one criteria you may submit a self-validation and ask to be recorded as a Healthy School on the national database.

Help from the Cornwall Healthy Schools team 

We've found that schools need to take certain steps to ensure that they get through the self-validation process in the best possible way, with our support.

We can support you through the entire process, for example by giving you help to go through the audit and by helping you to identify effective ways to implement your action plan and identify outcomes.

There are plenty of tools available to support and guide you through the process,  many of them on this website, see the audit tools and support material section.