2009 celebration

The Cornwall Healthy Schools Programme is 10 years old 

Thank you!

To all those who came to our awards ceremony and 10th birthday party at the Pavilion Centre at the Royal Cornwall Showground on Wednesday 8th July, thank you for coming!

We want to say a big thank you to the Travel Awareness team (Cornwall Council) for sharing the event (and all the planning and preparation!) with us.

We'd also like to thank everyone who provided activities, games, workshops and exhibitions on the day. Your input was superb.

We were really encouraged to see everyone enjoying themselves doing all the activities. We were also very proud to welcome Ekow Armah from the national Healthy Schools programme. Ekow spoke about the value of Healthy Schools and the future of the programme. He also awarded plaques to validating schools. It was lovely to see the delight in pupils' and teachers' faces as they received their plaques and good practice Scolly awards.

View the official photographs.

Primary competition

We asked primary school pupils to take a photograph of Scolly Bear involved in healthy activities in school. Many of you fell in love with him and we were inundated with photos.Thank you!

Scolly Bear says: "Oh wow, I had such super time with you all! I ate lots of healthy food and helped lots of you with your gardening. I went sailing, I did Wake Up Shake Up and PE. I went on a lifeboat, I went swimming, I played hopscotch, I climbed up a beanpole, I enjoyed maypole dancing, I played hockey, I helped to cook pizzas, I came first on Sports Day, I was helped to put suncscreen on and I made loads of new friends. Thank you for all my adventures!"

We displayed all the photographs at our celebration and asked schools to vote for their favourite picture. The pictures that received the most votes were from Gwinear CP School, Cury CE School, Carclaze Community Infants School, St. Levan CP School and Werrington School. These schools have received bags of goodies.

Building a vision 

Here's what Richard Sangster, Head of the National Healthy Schools Programme, wrote about the tenth anniversary of Healthy Schools: "Healthy Schools ... has established itself as one of the country's most widely-embraced non-statutory government initiatives in schools. ... Healthy Schools will play a key role in translating the government's vision of the 21st Century School into practice." Read the whole of Richard's article here: Building a vision for the school of tomorrow.