Sharing good practice
Healthy Schools conferences for secondary schools and Short Stay Schools
New for summer term 2009 were our Sharing Good Practice events. Particular thanks are due to the speakers, who gave inspiring presentations and shared lots of advice:
- Healthy Eating: John Rankin*, Head Chef, Penair School
- PSHE in a Healthy School: Sue Le Marchand, Newquay Tretherras School
- Emotional Health and Wellbeing: Sue Booth, Emma Hendy, Sue Gilbert, Student Support team, Poltair School
- Zoe Baxter: Young People’s Sexual Health Promotion Worker
- Mandy Lancaster: Speakeasy Development Worker
- John Pascoe: R Time and Negotiate practitioner
- Kate Pordage: Cornwall Healthy Schools Co-ordinator – update on changes to the Healthy Schools programme.
Download Sue Le Marchand's presentation, PSHE in a Healthy School. It shows how PSHE is taught throughout Newquay Tretherras School, from Year 7 to Year 11.
Download Sue Booth's presentation, Student support at Poltair School and her flowcharts.
We will run another sharing good practice day for the secondary sector on 8th July 2010. If you'd like to share your school's good practice, contact us. You may also be interested in our half-day workshops; there'll be one on each core theme.
*October 2009: John Rankin and his work at Penair is in the final of BBC Radio 4's Food and Farming Awards. Fantastic work, John!