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Healthy Schools

Healthy Lifestyles

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.

Training & Events

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.

Healthy Lifestyles

Safer Active Travel

16th October 2023

1 hour


Online


This training covers the benefits of using active travel including walking, cycling and scooting while knowing how children can keep safe and avoid road related injuries. The session provides informat...
Healthy Lifestyles

Healthy Lifestyles: An Introduction

7th November 2023

1.5 hours


Online


This training course offers a brief overview of the importance of eating a healthy diet and being physically active. It will signpost schools to resources which will help them to promote a whole-schoo...
Healthy Lifestyles

Making Breaktimes Active for All

23rd November 2023

1 hour


Online


This training will look at the role of active break times in supporting pupils' health and well being. It will explore ways of making break times more active and look at ways of supporting all pupils...
Healthy Lifestyles

Creating a Culture of Healthy Eating

30th November 2023

1 hour


Online


This session will look at how healthy eating practices around snack and lunchtimes can be incorporated into the school day. The focus will be on lunchboxes, school dinners, snack times, the overall di...
Healthy Lifestyles

Understanding Childhood Obesity

18th January 2024

1.5 hours


Online


Childhood Obesity is a complex and often misunderstood disease which can massively impact an individual's physical and mental health. This training will explore the causes of childhood obesity, consi...
Healthy Lifestyles

Healthy Lifestyles: An Introduction

24th January 2024

1.5 hours


Online


This training course offers a brief overview of the importance of eating a healthy diet and being physically active. It will signpost schools to resources which will help them to promote a whole-schoo...

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TESTIMONIALS

I would just like to say thank you for running the competition and giving our students a real sense of success & pride of what they have personally, the school and the community have achieved through the Covid pandemic. 

Big Health Challenge 2021

I cannot tell you how useful your call and your information via email has been - thank you! I will use this to help my dialogue with this parent and also as part of further staff development.

Thank you!! 

PSHE Communication

RESOURCES

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