National Healthy Schools status requires schools to meet criteria in four core themes:-

• PSHE (Personal Social and Health Education) including sex and relationship education and drug education
• Healthy Eating
• Physical Activity
• Emotional Health and Wellbeing

All schools in Herefordshire are working towards Healthy School status and many have achieved the status. To find out if your child's school has achieved Healthy School status please click on the Schools Involved link on the left hand panel.

Healthy Schools is based on a whole school approach so schools are encouraged to involve everyone in the school community including parents in their Healthy Schools work.
This should continue even when the school achieve the status.
How schools involve parents will vary but some examples might be involvement or consultation in policy writing, or developing the curriculum.

If you have any queries about practice in school your first point of contact should be the school's Healthy Schools Co-ordinator, the head teacher or other appropriate member of staff.

Various websites are available to provide information on all aspects of health.
If you find other websites you think could be useful to other parents please contact the team. There are also various websites designed for children and young people which you may find useful.