Wednesday 24 May 2017
During their assembly on the morning of Wednesday 24th May, Lady Kathryn Corder will present La Mare de Carteret Primary School with their Guernsey Healthy Schools award. The School is the first to achieve the new Guernsey award which has been based on a scheme running successfully in Essex.
The Healthy Schools programme is designed to support and strengthen the schools' PSHE curriculum and enable schools to audit their practice and celebrate the good work they are doing to support and develop young people's health and wellbeing. Healthy Schools also supports Guernsey's Children and Young People's Plan and Healthy Weight Strategy. The award includes standards that are required to be met in the following areas;
- Leadership and Management
- Policy Development
- Learning and Teaching (including PSHE (Personal, Social and Health Education), emotional health and wellbeing, physical activity and food and nutrition
- Giving children and young people a voice
- Partnerships and support services
The award requires a whole-school approach to be taken, engaging pupils, staff and the community. Over the past year, staff have assigned a grade to each criterion and they then submitted their document to the Healthy Schools Team for validation. Two members of the Team visited the school for half a day to discuss the achievements and evidence submitted and verified that the standards had been met.
Alun Williams, Lifelong Learning Manager who visited the school said "We are delighted that Lady Corder has agreed to present our first Guernsey Healthy Schools award to La Mare de Carteret Primary School. The staff and pupils have worked extremely hard to meet all the criteria - many at an 'outstanding' level. We have been really impressed at the very high standards achieved"
Kim Hutchison, headteacher La Mare de Carteret Primary School said: "The school has worked very hard with outside agencies and our business partners, Investec, to help ensure children at La Mare Primary receive an exciting curriculum that not only stretches them academically but looks after their physical, social, emotional and mental health. It is fantastic to receive an award that validates the continued hard work of the whole school community. Particular thanks go to Miss Castle (PSHE Coordinator) who has led on this initiative."
