Whitley and Eggborough Community Primary School
Healthy Lifestyle Policy
AIMS:
To educate, equip and empower all pupils to live a healthy lifestyle through the curriculum we teach, the relationships we
foster, the environment we provide and the opportunities we create.
We aim to create a culture where healthy lifestyles are promoted that impact on the whole child in terms of their:
 Spiritual health, including Christianity and the beliefs of other faiths, healthy choices, positive lifestyles of PSHCE.
 Physical health, including diet, nutrition, exercise, health and safety, being sexually smart, drug awareness and
developing healthy habits.
 Emotional health, including relationships, well being and having a safe & secure environment, fostering compassion
and courage.
 Mental health, including a strong work ethic, a positive ‘can do’ mentality and wisdom regarding choices and
consequences.
 Relationships, including positive peer groups in their class, whole school, families and a positive participation in the
community.
OBJECTIVES:
 To deliver a curriculum that provides information relating to food, nutrition and fitness and the opportunity for at least
2 hours of exercise per week.
 To work in conjunction with the school caterer and ensure that the school meals provided meet with the
requirements outlined by the ‘Primary Nutritional School Standards’ and parents are kept informed and up to date.
 To ensure that our children receive consistent and coherent messages about food and its role in their long-term
health.
 To promote healthy eating for pupils with lunch boxes and the eating of snacks at break time, through implementing
policies relating to healthy snacks and sandwiches.
 To promote healthy lifestyles through active engagement in extra curricular clubs and playtime games.
 To assist healthy approaches to learning through the accessibility of water in lessons and its availability elsewhere in
school.
 To promote healthy lifestyle through empowering children to make good choices and develop healthy relationships.
 To enable pupils to take part in our collective events such as sports days, sponsored walks, healthy weeks and
whole school themed weeks.
 To introduce pupils to and forge links with many outside agencies and sports coaches, which promote good health.
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Healthy Lifestyle Procedures
HEALTHIER CURRICULUM
We seek to deliver a curriculum that provides:
 Information, understanding and application of the importance of healthy foods and nutrition and the need for a
balanced diet.
 Opportunity for weekly indoor and outdoor fitness activities.
 At least 2 hours of exercise per week.
 Carefully planned PE that develops pupils’ suppleness, strength, skills and speed.
 Scientific understanding and experiences relating to keeping our bodies healthy.
 A range of Health related units of work in PSHCE delivered by health experts such as the school nurse or dentist.
 Provision of cooking experiences within the curriculum. An after school cookery club has been established to provide
further experiences.
 Equal opportunity for pupils in terms of access, inclusiveness and provision.
(Sports and health activities are not used as rewards but rather as a pupil’s entitlement)
 Opportunity for all pupils to achieve their Cycling Awareness Certificate, and their National Curriculum Swimming
Standard.
 Opportunity for celebration of our healthy achievements in a weekly assembly. The Health Council use this as an
opportunity to feedback their progress.
 Enhanced PE provision using professionals from the local School Sports Council Cluster of schools.
 ‘Activate’ workouts being part of the weekly curriculum.
HEALTHIER CLUBS AND ACTIVITY CHOICES
We seek to promote healthy lifestyles through:
 Extra curricular clubs, during and after school hours ensuring good value for money which promotes inclusiveness of
all pupils regardless of their parent’s ability to pay.
 The availability of a range of playtime games equipment for pupils to use every day.
 Developing a healthy playground that includes marked out games. Play leaders work hard to encourage appropriate
play.
 Running weekly sports clubs, such as football, netball, multi-skills, and Tae Kwon Do.
 Regular Educational visits for all classes, encouraging pupils to have healthy interests using local community
resources – e.g. Leisure Centre, outdoor residential, coastal visit. etc
 Bidding for sports funding and pupils collecting sports vouchers in order to supplement our extensive range of PE
equipment.
HEALTHIER HEARTS
We seek to ensure pupils take part in our collective events through:
 Participation of all pupils in all events during our annual sports day.
 Running a ‘Healthy’ themed week that offers pupils a range of creative arts and sports activities throughout the week.
 Providing the opportunity of Outdoor Education for upper KS2 including outdoor and adventurous problem solving
during a residential visit to Robinwood, Todmorden.
 Participating in interschool sports competitions throughout the year.
 Booking regular visitors and sports coaches to run training sessions for all classes.
 Taking part in our fund raising sports activities such as our sponsored skip, penalty shoot-out and sponsored walk.
HEALTHIER CHOICES
We seek to promote healthy lifestyle through:
 Empowering children to make appropriate choices
 Developing healthy relationships, which are productive and involve teamwork e.g. class responsibilities
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Discussions in our RE / PSHCE groups / SEAL groups, where time is set aside for personal reflection and supporting
each other in making informed choices e.g. class rules.
Encouraging participation in charity events, fostering community awareness and participation e.g. Children in Need,
Red Nose Day, Fairtrade and World Book Day.
Encouraging children and families to walk to school.
FOOD THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL DAY
Food throughout the school day:
Breakfast
 We recognise the importance of eating a balanced breakfast and realise that it is hard to concentrate on learning and
maintain energy levels without breakfast.
 We have a breakfast club which runs from 8.00 a.m. to 8.45 a.m. each morning.
Break Time
 Children in Key Stage One benefit from the National School Fruit Scheme – this entitles them to one free piece of fruit
or vegetable a day.
 All children in school are encouraged to bring fruit to eat during break time.
Lunch Time – hot lunch in the dining hall
 We aim to provide our children with good quality, healthy food and we actively promote healthy choices.
 We recognise the importance of eating a hot lunch and try to encourage more children to choose this option.
Lunch Time – packed lunches
 We aim to reach a stage where no children have chocolate, crisps or sugary drinks in their packed lunches.
 We aim to support parents in making healthy choices when preparing packed lunches.
 It is an aim of the Health Council to regularly talk to children about their packed lunches.
Lunch Time – the dinner hall environment
 We ensure that children have time to eat their lunch and do not need to rush.
HEALTHIER SCHOOL MEALS
We seek to promote healthy school meals by:
 Working in conjunction with the school caterer and ensure that the school meals provided meet with the requirements
outlined by the ‘Primary Nutritional School Standards’.
 Ensuring parents are kept informed and up to date through access to menus and information of school meal
developments via the school news letter.
 Displaying menus and positive slogans that promote healthy eating.
 Awarding children with stickers for eating healthy food and finishing their meals with a ‘clean plate’.
 Encouraging staff to have school meals and act as a positive role model.
 Running a happy sociable dining room that is orderly and friendly and attractive.
 Advertising school meals to parents at Parents’ Evenings.
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HEALTHIER SNACKS AND SANDWICHES
We seek to promote healthy eating:
 For pupils with lunch boxes, by implementing our guidelines that encourage healthy packed lunches
 Through the eating of fruit at play time and discouraging other less healthy items.
 By participating in the KS1 National School Fruit Scheme.
HEALTHIER DRINKING
We seek to assist healthy approaches to learning through:
 Encouraging the drinking of water during lesson times.
 Ensuring water is available at lunch times on the tables with the meal.
 Discouraging other less healthy drinks.
 Encouraging children to use the water fountains in school.
 Ensuring that, at sports events, liquids are accessible and used to prevent dehydration.
 Providing a chilled water facility in the staff room.
HEALTHIER COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION & ROLE MODELS
We seek to promote healthy community participation through:
 Working closely with the local churches.
 Actively engaging with local homes for elderly people.
 Visiting our community as part of our work in school.
 Using outside agencies to promote healthy lifestyles – e.g. fire service, police, doctors and dentists.
 Fostering strong transitional arrangements with local pre-school providers and secondary schools.
Reviewed: January 2015
By:
Health Leaders (Miss Ratliffe, Miss Bielby, Mrs Greenwood)
Next review Date: January 2018
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