Clockhouse goes Silver

As you can see we have been busy and are delighted to announce that within a year of being awarded the Bronze Healthy Schools Award Clockhouse Primary School has been awarded the Silver Award as a result of our efforts to improve our lunchtime provision! The school have invested into the OPAL project providing children with more incentive to be active and try new things during our lunchtime provision.

 

Our aim, as a school, is to support the children and young people to grow healthily, safely and responsibly. The programme is split into 4 key areas Physical Activity, Healthy Eating, Personal, Social, Health Education (PSHE), and Social, Emotional, Mental Health (SEMH). As a result the school was supported with SMSC development, SEMH understanding, physical education, pupil voice, food and nutrition within the school environment, and areas of PSHE.

Supporting children’s health and wellbeing is nothing new to London’s schools.  With the support of the boroughs’ education departments, more than nine out of ten achieved “Healthy School Status” under the national programme that ran between 1997 and 2011. In 2011, the London Health Improvement Board agreed to help schools continue this track record by developing a programme tailored specifically for London.  Although the programme was part of a project to tackle child obesity in London, the Board recognised that the potential benefits would go much further. From April 2013, the programme is sponsored by the Mayor of London, and is being delivered by a small team in the Greater London Authority. The programme will therefore help schools to refresh, revive and re-establish the healthy environments they worked hard to develop.

 

We aim to look at the gold award in the coming 2 years!

 

Thank you to Mrs Reinecke and our lunchtime staff for taking a lead role on the Opal project and helping us achieve the healthy Schools Silver Award.