Case studies for Cohort 1
It is very encouraging that such superb good practice is emerging from Healthy Schools Plus work. Here are the case studies from the schools in the first cohort.
Alverton CP School
Alverton CP School developed a project that combined physical activity with emotional health and wellbeing in playground work, read the case study.
Bude Infant School
Bude Infant School chose to work on emotional support and pastoral care for their Healthy Schools Plus work. This had very positive results in the case of one particular pupil. Read the case study.
Coads Green Primary School
The school welcomed the chance to work on emotional health and wellbeing as a priority area for Healthy Schools Plus because the school was interested in exploring the links between pupils' emotional health and wellbeing and their attainment. Read more.
Connor Downs Primary School
Connor Downs Primary School focussed on healthy weight. As well as working with the pupils, they involved the adults (parents and carers, teachers and other staff) in aspects of the work (physical activity - skipping - and the Change 4 Life weight management sessions). In this way everyone in the school community learns and benefits and they can encourage each other to put their knowledge of healthy living into practice. Read the case study. See also the Skipping Workshop page.
Falmouth School
A significant number of students at the school had been absent because of "friendship issues" and the school chose to address this by developing their TaMHS work on pupils' emotional health and wellbeing, read more.
Gwinear CP School
Gwinear CP School chose to work on two areas, SRE and healthy eating. They refreshed their SRE curriculum and worked on Speakeasy with parents. Pupils worked to design, make and sell a healthy lunch recipe book as part of their business enterprise project, which involved parents, the community, local restaurants and other businesses. Read the case study.
Liskeard School and Community College
The school's work with the Liskeard Breathers Club was very well received by students, and the personal stories told by the people suffering from chronic lung disease were very powerful, read more.
Marlborough School
Marlborough School wanted to address the areas of emotional health and wellbeing and childhood obesity. They did some great work through their Pupil Parliament which also enabled the children to introduce the Pupil Parliament to the infants, read more.
Mithian School
Mithian School chose to work with children who were slightly overweight or had low levels of fitness, agility or involvement in sports. Involving families too, they called it Family Fun Fit, read more in the case study. Mithian also chose to work on the emotional health and wellbeing of certain children by setting up a Pyramid Club, read more.
Parc Eglos School
Parc Eglos chose to work with children who were demonstrating low resilience and low self-esteem. The school ran three Pyramid Clubs in one year! Read about their work here.
Pencoys Primary School
Pencoys Primary School chose to further develop some super work they had started with parents on Sex and Relationships Education using Speakeasy. Read their case study.
Pendeen School
Pendeen School decided that their Healthy Schools Plus work should contribute to the health priority of reducing obesity and reducing diabetes. Their children in challenging circumstances are those with dyspraxia, coordination difficulties and poor upper body strength. Read about their work.
Penrice Community College
Penrice are doing some superb work that links students needing after-school activity clubs with girls who were not engaging in certain aspects of school life, read more and go to this page to see a picture of the "Pink Ladies" (image number 30). We are also very proud that the Director of Public Health's Annual Report 2010 includes a feature about Penrice's work, read the feature.
Penryn College
Penryn College chose to work on increasing physical activity through Change4Life across the community of Penryn. Alongside this they also chose to work on students' leadership skills through the provision of First Aid and linked this to supporting pupils' emotional health and wellbeing. Read the case study.
Penryn Junior School
Penryn Junior School did an extended piece of work on behavioural problems during lunch and breaktimes. Read the case study.
Perranporth CP School
Perranporth identified a need to develop outreach and counselling for families as well as the need to encourage pupils to talk more about their concerns. They felt that vulnerable pupils needed to have help in raising self-esteem and motivation and that all children needed to enjoy playtimes more. Read about what they did.
Sandy Hill CP School
Sandy Hill did some super work on emotional health and wellbeing which included Friends, R Time and Playtime Pals. Read the case study.
St Just Primary School
St Just Primary identified two areas of work, firstly, to improve pupils’ healthy choices by growing produce for cooking and secondly, to help pupils to use the internet and mobile communications safely, to inform parents of the dangers of cyber-bullying and to equip them with the knowledge to keep their children safe online. Read more.
St Mary's Catholic Primary School Falmouth
St Mary's Catholic Primary School in Falmouth chose to work on pupils' emotional health and wellbeing. They introduced R Time throughout the school, did some buddy work and instituted the Captain's Table. They also introduced a Pyramid Club for certain children. Read more.
St Mewan CP School
St Mewan chose to work on sex and relationships education. They did the Christopher Winter Project and coupled it with Speakeasy for parents, read more.
St Stephen Churchtown CP School
St Stephen Churchtown chose to work on healthier weight by encouraging more pupils to walk or cycle to school. They also held a Healthy Week in school, read more.
Threemilestone School
At Threemilestone School the Healthy Schools Coordinator was keen to encourage cycling skills among pupils who otherwise might not have had the opportunity to ride a bike. Even the youngest children at the school have learnt to ride a bike independently, read the case study.
Torpoint Nursery and Infant School
Torpoint Nursery and Infant School was the first school in Cornwall to attain recognition as a Healthy Schools Plus school. Work focussed on enabling all children to feel safe, secure and happy at school and particularly on improving children's experiences during lunchtimes. Their case study highlights the role of their wonderful school council and explains how they developed a happier lunchtime for everyone.
Tregony CP School
Tregony CP School felt that it was important to meet the needs of geographically isolated pupils in particular, but also wanted their work to address all aspects of being a Healthy School. Read the case study.
Treloweth CP School
South West Healthy Schools Plus were so impressed with Treloweth's "Looking after me" work that they made it into a south west case study. Treloweth also supplied an overview of their Healthy Schools Plus work.
Treverbyn CP School
Treverbyn CP School chose to work on improving pupils' healthy choices and to link this with increasing their takeup of physical activity and improving their general levels of fitness, read more in the case study.
Trewirgie Infants' School
The school chose to work on empowering pupils to resolve conflict. They did this by becoming a UNICEF "Rights-respecting school" and by doing RTime. One piece of good practice described in their case study is the use of a peaceful problem-solving area with two sets of footprints for the children to use, enabling them to stand on each other's footprints thus seeing the problem from both points of view. Read more.
Troon CP School
Troon chose to work on a whole-school approach to improving pupils' emotional health and wellbeing. At the same time, they focussed on improving the self-esteem of particular children identified as being vulnerable, under-achieving or having low self-esteem. They whole-heartedly committed themselveds to RTime, using it throughout the school and becoming the first school in the UK to attain a Platinum RTime award. Read more.
Whitstone Head School
Whitstone Head School chose to work on physical activity, seeking to continue to ensure the whole school population's access to a minimum two hours physical activity per week, to analyse the intensity level of physical activity more accurately, to increase the percentage of time spent doing at least moderate activity and where appropriate, to increase the amount of time spent on vigorous activity. Read the case study.
Read more case studies (Cohort 2 schools).
Help with writing a case study
Kate produced this mind map Tell the story of your HS Plus work to show the sort of thing that needs to go into your case study.
