The Healthy Learning Trust empowers young people to enhance their own lives and the lives of others through our FIVE PATHWAYS to HEALTH & WELLBEING & SCHOLARSHIP. We secure progression into health-related careers through strategic partnerships with the NHS, universities and health and wellbeing providers to create opportunities for health-related career progression.

The Healthy Learning Trust is underpinned by five pathways covering different areas of health.  These include:

• Academic
• Emotional
• Physical
• Nutritional
• Social and moral

Through the completion of the award, it was clear that the work we were doing within school was high quality and appropriate for the wellbeing of both staff and students and was having a positive impact. 

Reviewing the WAS action plan regularly was a good indicator of the progress we were making and helped us to ensure that anything we were not doing, we were able to address. It provided us with a good framework to audit our current provision and make any necessary changes.

A working party/change team was set up which included a mixture of staff with areas of expertise in one or more areas of the five pathways. The team met up regularly to share ideas and progress about projects that were running. All members of the school community were given the opportunity to provide their opinions and feedback on our provision through surveys, questionnaires, suggestion boxes and ‘wish walls’.

Staff have been provided with additional opportunities to complete online learning courses in the topics of mental health, specific learning difficulties and exercise and nutrition. All teaching staff have also been provided with mental health training through inset days. This has improved staff confidence when dealing with students who are experiencing difficulties.

The award provided us with a positive experience and reassurance that the work we were doing was on the right track and helped us to identify where the gaps were which we are able to address. 

We have also been able to identify things we could do to improve further and understand how our work could influence and support other schools in the development of a strategic and embedded approach to health and wellbeing.

We are delighted to have been credited with the award and would whole-heartedly recommend to other schools.

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