The Healthy Lifestyles theme incorporates a range of resources, staff training and interventions around the topic areas of healthy eating and physical activity.
The Healthy Lifestyles theme aims to promote and develop healthy lifestyle choices in the school age population, preventing and reducing the number of children with excess weight across Manchester.
Manchester Healthy Schools is committed to raising awareness about the importance of healthy lifestyles and equipping staff with the knowledge and understanding about a multi-faceted approach to reducing obesity among children and young people.
Training has been developed to support schools to develop healthy eating policies and best practice around encouraging physical activity for all ages.
Our universal training is available for all schools that have completed the Health Check.
Schools that have prioritised Healthy Lifestyles this year will have access to a wider selection of ‘in-house’ training and support to ensure that they are able to make significant progress in this area.
Please find a full list of training available to support Healthy Lifestyles below. Bespoke training for secondary schools and special schools is available on request.
For more information please contact Cassandra.Cox@mft.nhs.uk or Farirayi.Chikate@mft.nhs.uk.
We offer bespoke training courses. Please contact us for more information
There are a range of curriculum linked resources (Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 4) to support the promotion of Healthy Lifestyles, including resources around healthy eating and physical activity.
Resources to support parental engagement and pupil voice work are also available on request.
If you are a school engaged with us we suggest that you log in prior to viewing resources so these can be recorded in your school dashboard.
If you are struggling to find resources around a related topic area, please do get in touch to let us know: Cassandra.cox@mft.nhs.uk or Farirayi.Chikate@mft.nhs.uk
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