Education
Healthy Schools
The National Healthy Schools Programme has 4 principal aims:
- To help to raise pupil achievement
- To help to reduce health inequalities
- To help promote social inclusion
- To support children and young people in developing healthy behaviours
The Programme is funded by Department for Children, Schools and Families and Department of Health, with a regional and local network. By 2009, the government wants every school to be working towards achieving National Healthy School status. Every local education authority and Primary Care Trust already has a local Healthy Schools programme to support schools in reaching this target.
To achieve Healthy School status, schools are asked to demonstrate how they meet minimum standards in relation to aspects that include Personal Social and Health Education, healthy eating, physical activity and emotional health and well-being.
In achieving National Healthy School Status, a school can demonstrate how it's contributing to improving children's health and learning, and contributing to the delivery of the 5 national outcomes for children as described in Every Child Matters. Working with other partners, a healthy school can address issues its pupils face in the context of the local drive towards improving outcomes for children.
Information for parents/carers is provided in the following leaflet.
National Healthy Schools Programme: A guide for parents and carers 
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The following schools have achieved Healthy School status. Last updated November 2008.
- Cambell Infants
- Dorothy Barley Infants
- Grafton Infants
- Manor Infants
- Marks Gate Infants
- Rush Green Infants
- Village Infants
- Manor Junior
- Northbury Junior
- Ripple Junior
- Rush Green Junior
- William Bellamy Junior
- William Ford Junior
- Beam Primary
- Eastbury Primary
- Five Elms Primary
- Godwin Primary
- Henry Green Primary
- John Perry Primary
- Marsh Green Primary
- Monteagle Primary
- Richard Alibon Primary
- Roding Primary
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary (Barking)
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary (Dagenham)
- St Margaret's Church of England Primary
- St Vincent's Catholic Primary
- The Leys Primary
- Thomas Arnold Primary
- Valence Primary
- All Saints Catholic School and Technology College
- Dagenham Park Community School
- Jo Richardson Secondary School
- Reception and Reintegration Centre
- Robert Clack Secondary School
- Sydney Russell Secondary School
- Warren Secondary School
For more information on the Programme, please contact Jason Hatherill at the address shown or visit the Healthy Schools website.
