{"id":121,"date":"2021-03-18T09:26:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T09:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/dalgetybayps\/?page_id=121"},"modified":"2021-03-18T10:21:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T10:21:12","slug":"health-promoting-school","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/dalgetybayps\/school\/initiatives\/health-promoting-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Promoting School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fife Health Promoting Schools Accreditation scheme provides a framework for schools to develop a structured, focused approach to health initiatives and gain recognition for, and feedback on, their achievements.\u00a0 The key characteristics of a Health Promoting School are<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Environment<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ethos<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Learning &amp; Teaching<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Leadership &amp; Management.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Underpinning all these characteristics\u00a0 is\u00a0<strong>Partnership Working\u00a0<\/strong>which is essential to all HPS development.<\/p>\n<p>Dalgety Bay Primary School was one of the first schools in Fife to be awarded &#8216;Health Promoting Schools&#8217; accreditation in 2006.\u00a0At that time we focused on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Environment &#8211; The school environment\u00a0\u00a0is welcoming, orderly and attractive with good displays promoting health related messages.\u00a0 It\u00a0is clean, free of litter and signs of vandalism.<\/li>\n<li>Ethos &#8211; Pupils take an active role in the decision making process and the school values curricular and extra-curricular achievement of pupils.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Health and Wellbeing continue to be a high priority for all in school with focus fortnights related to health topics being held throughout the year. We are now working towards our Phase 3 accreditation and hope to achieve this in the next session.<\/p>\n<p>In school, children will be encouraged to choose healthy options at lunch.<\/p>\n<p>Try this great\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthpromotingschools.co.uk\/children\/index.asp\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interactive game\u00a0<\/a>online.<\/p>\n<p>Fife Education has created its own\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthpromotingschoolsfife.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Health Promoting Schools<\/a>\u00a0website to support this initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthpromotingschools.co.uk\/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">national website<\/a>\u00a0offers a wealth of information and is worth visiting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotland.gov.uk\/Publications\/2003\/02\/16273\/17566\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hungry for Success<\/a>\u00a0is an initiative linked directly to Health Promoting Schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fife Health Promoting Schools Accreditation scheme provides a framework for schools to develop a structured, focused approach to health initiatives and gain recognition for, and feedback on, their achievements.\u00a0 The key characteristics of a Health Promoting School are Environment Ethos Learning &amp; Teaching Leadership &amp; Management. Underpinning all these characteristics\u00a0 is\u00a0Partnership Working\u00a0which is essential &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/dalgetybayps\/school\/initiatives\/health-promoting-school\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Health Promoting School<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21446,"featured_media":0,"parent":46,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-121","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/dalgetybayps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/dalgetybayps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/dalgetybayps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/dalgetybayps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/dalgetybayps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/dalgetybayps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/dalgetybayps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121\/revisions\/160"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/dalgetybayps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/dalgetybayps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}