David Downham and Nick Torsney, P.E. Department

This workshop aspired to raise the issue of a whole school responsibility for health and wellbeing and looked at identifying a hot topic, theme or issue that affects the school.  As a group we selected one of the building blocks of health and well being that would help us focus on and try to raise awareness of or tackle the issue.   We then broke up into smaller groups to discuss strategies that individuals, departments and the whole school could adopt to help with this.

The building block identified was Respect which falls under the title of Relationships and Friendships.  This would cover a range of issues including inappropriate uniform, litter, eating habits, correct use of equipment/areas and punctuality.

After the workshop we will work towards bring together all the information and report it back to the staff before putting some of the strategies in place as well as identifying all experiences and outcomes covered.  The feedback from the staff was very positive and suggested that more time would have been useful in the workshop.  The accompanying PowerPoint for this workshop can be located here.