WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT US

Thank you so much for facilitating the session last night, it was really appreciated, lots of the staff have stopped me this morning and said what a brilliant session it was, so credit to you and once again a very big "THANK YOU"

Thanks so much for this. The LOs couldn’t sing your praises enough! They are keen to do more work on this so thank you so much. They also said they got some tips for home! 

Very knowledgeable, excellent delivery. I really hope more sessions are to follow!

Emma for as long as I have known her to be a member of Healthy Schools always goes above and beyond. For a free service you would and could expect the very bare minimum. Her dedication and commitment to the service but also to Manchester Schools has been second to none ever since her pandemic work. She has become like my guru, as a headteacher my responsibility to get attendance, behaviour and wellbeing under control with limited resources and some very tired staff gives me sleepless nights. Being able to turn to Healthy Schools and having Emma to support with auditing and action planning has helped me to gain a sense of control and direction. I have booked a consultation and look forward to planning our next steps

Again a really great session. Excellent knowledge, excellent delivery. Really love it when a training session relates to real life school life. Emma just 'gets it'

Emma always delivers training to the highest of standards. Extremely knowledgeable and confident trainer. I always love coming to any training sessions that Emma is doing! And a big hats off to healthy schools yet again for the amazing support they provide.

really comprehensive delivery, good wealth of knowledge/experience 

I find the self assessment health check and action planning very helpful as it clearly states what is needed to ensure that we are doing all possible to provide what our school community, and beyond need to promote and sustain all aspects of a healthy, successful and happy life.

Invaluable! The training and support is exemplary and we could not have made the improvements to the pastoral care and safeguarding in my School without the input from your service.

Being new to the role, I found the service to be hugely beneficial and supportive in ensuring that our pupils and staff have access to the most inclusive, relevant and engaging programmes, resources, training opportunities and support.

I found the meeting fascinating and made some great contacts.

Thank you very much for the fantastic webinar about the teenager brain.

I just wanted to say thank you for delivering your session yesterday, so many different members of staff said it was a brilliant refresher, and some things you covered they took for granted. One said that it was important for them to change their lessons to be inclusive e.g. changing names of characters in their scenarios. On the whole, I think the staff left feeling much more confident!

Thank you again so much.

Really helpful and informative-thank you. I feel like I have so much work to do to get RSE to where it needs to be in our school, but now I know what it should look like. Thanks

I just wanted to say a big thank you for coming and delivering the training yesterday. The staff said how helpful they found the training and thank you for the resources you forwarded too. 

We will look forward to working with you again in the future. 

Thank you once again to you both for a meaningful session. It created lots of discussion and allow staff to talk openly about mental health which can only be a good thing! 

Thank you!

Huge thanks again for last night. Lots of food for thought and plenty of positive comments as staff left the room.

Thank you so much for this. Everyone really enjoyed it and found it so useful. 

“Good informative and practical training that I feel able to share with families and really useful links to get more help and support. Thankyou”

I just wanted to message you to thank you for the video. It was really interesting, incredibly informative and it covered everything. I honestly don't think I have ever sat through a whole CPD session with such interest! You're very good at your job :-) 

As a class teacher, I now feel much more enlightened and able to develop my own lessons and as the PSHE lead, I feel that I can now support the staff.  

So that's what I wanted to say! A big thank you :-) 

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!! 

We have so far completed a timeline for moving forwards with the new RSE curriculum at our school. I've contacted Cat some time ago (after she was excellent at supporting with some RSE technicalities from the new legislation) and she said that HS would be happy to support us on our journey.

All roads have led back to you, and I'm so happy! I really appreciate your support on what seems like a great task (delivering the new RSE curriculum in a transparent, fair and thorough way) but with the support of HS we will enable our children the skills and knowledge that they need in order to excel in these tentative years, into young people and adulthood.

Thank you for the open questions' suggestion which I will feed back and include on our timeline.

I just wanted to say a big thank you for all the resources you pulled together for RSE day. I’m the PSHE Co-ordinator at Grange and we celebrated RSE day and combined it with a celebration of Pride month. I used a lot of your resources from the Primary and Special Schools pages to share with teachers across school for activities; the feedback I got was overwhelmingly positive and the pupils seemed to really enjoy their time doing the activities. Thanks again for doing most of the work for me on RSE day!

Great timing Kimberley! we have the SEND visit this week, cc ed to Maria and Laila so they are aware. Thanks again.

Nicola Marden, Assistant Director for CCHS

Hi Kimberley

These look great. Thanks .

Laila Baig, HOS SALT and OT

The padlet is fantastic, it’s really well thought out and organised,

Healthy Schools are working so hard to achieve great results

Thank you

Denise Gaston, Operational Manager- School Health

Absolutely excellent work again Kimberley.

Please pass on my thanks to Emma and all the team for continuing to produce such a high standard of work. As Nicola says it is great timing and really adds to all the great work that services have been developing around SEND.

Claire Duggan, Lead Manager

Thank you SO much for today's session. It was brilliant and I found it incredibly useful. I have so many ideas and resources now on how to move forward with engaging parents with our RSHE policy, and I personally feel far more knowledgeable and confident on how to approach what can be a challenging and daunting area.

Thanks again

Heather – [St Catherine’s Primary]



Thanks Cat! A really informative, useful session communicated brilliantly! Thanks so much!

Great session, timed well, enjoyed guest speaker and was nice to hear how other schools have communicated with parents and what has worked well.

Well presented and easy to understand – clear approach.

Thank you Cat – plenty of useful advice and full of relevant information.

• All of it was so good. Best CPD ever!
• Cat was brilliant and engaging. It didn’t actually feel like a 3 hour session.
• Really interactive which allows the people receiving training to stay engaged throughout.
• It was a really informative training session that I have taken a lot from. Thank you!

The leaflet looks fantastic, the content is excellent. I’d really like our service to be able to use this too if you wouldn’t mind.

• Keep up the good work. Your resources have been amazing to plan our assemblies.
• Thank you all for the support and training that we have already received in the past. We are really grateful for this, as we work with the most vulnerable groups of young people who need a great deal of additional help and support. Thanks.
• Thank you so much for the outstanding support we have received from the Manchester Healthy School's Team this year, it's hugely appreciated.
• Thank you for the hard work all the team does in supporting all the schools across Manchester

I tuned into the session today . It was very informative and well delivered by the whole team. Our school communities are very fortunate to have the Healthy Schools Team as a resource to help support our children and young people.

Please pass on my thanks to the team.

Yes Helen was extremely helpful- there is so much information I'm still going through- you're all working super hard there!

• Thanks so much for the training, it was excellent
• Fantastic session, we got a lot out of it!
• It was great – looking forward to session 2. Thanks very much to you all
• Thank you guys as always for keeping us all calm during this crisis. It is hard to function some days and the fact that you guys are supporting us so well never goes unnoticed. I am sure I speak for many schools when I say that we are extremely grateful for all of your help throughout this pandemic. I do not know what we would have done without you all. Stay safe and keep positive.
• Can I just say I think your courses are fab. Really enjoy them and think the staff are brilliant.

I also meant to catch up with you, to say how impressed I was about the Zoom training you did. It was obviously a fantastic success and the staff involved should really be commended. Please pass on my thanks to all involved for representing School Health in such a positive light.

·        Excellent delivery and very informative. The trainer is brilliant.

·        Fantastic. Knowledgeable staff. Colette had all the answers.

·        Great session, thank you!

·        A very useful course. Thanks.

·        Excellent! Thank you.

We are writing to you as Claire Duggan, Lead Manager recently submitted an excellence report stating: “On the 29th January the new Self-harm Pathway for School Health was launched. This was a joint piece of work between School Nurse Public Health Leads and Healthy Schools. The launch demonstrated excellent collaboration and extensive knowledge and clinical skills. This piece of work has also demonstrated the standard we want to achieve in all aspects of the service”.

We are always grateful for feedback about our staff and the excellent services being provided on behalf of the Directorate, We would like to thank you for your hard work and dedication. 

We would also like to take the opportunity to encourage you to add this letter to your personal portfolio as a demonstration of the good work you were involved in undertaking. 

Once again thank you for your hard work and we would like to take this opportunity to wish you well for the future.

·        Thank you so much. I found this really beneficial.

·        Very helpful as I had very little knowledge before. Really informative and personable.

·        Thank you for a really informative day.

·        Loads of info & ideas thank you!

·        Thank you - I have enjoyed a really purposeful day and am looking forward to implementing some changes when I get back to school.

·        Fab day - thank you.

•  A really informative/useful afternoon.
• So useful for networking. Brilliant. Thanks!
• Really great session - looking forward to the next.

Great session, thanks.

• I have really enjoyed this session. Thank you.
• Excellent session - well planned, challenging questions. Such a welcome initiative.
• Just wanted to say what a brilliant session you both prepared today. It was such a unique opportunity for such a wide range of people to get together to discuss ideas and get that rich perspective of parents and professionals. Really looking forward to seeing how this moves forward. Thank you for getting us involved. It was an uplifting way to start the day.

It was amazing. Nothing wrong.

• Clare was fantastic. She was open and informative. Course was well led and organised. Good balance of activities.
• Clare very knowledgeable about the subject. Really found it interesting. Would definitely like to go on more courses Clare does. Enjoyed the activities - relevant to the course.
• Trainer very informative, friendly and welcoming. One of the best I've been on!

• Trainer was clear & presented the information well.
• Brilliantly delivered - thank you.
• Fantastic meeting. Enthusiastic leader & engaging!
• Very interactive - loved it.
• Fantastically delivered.
• Presenter was very good.

• All parts were presented really clearly with lots of info regarding how to adapt. Enjoyed it all!
• It was good to be able to reflect on own well-being and connect with others. Lovely trainer. Thank you.
• Excellent course and fantastic resources - very well delivered. Thank you!

• Emotional intelligence questions were interesting. All was good! Thank you.
• Wish it was longer! Great session!

• Very clear and thought provoking.
• Excellent trainer - very clear and great delivery.
• Well delivered.
• Very useful, very clearly presented.

• Very engaging, children sharing good ideas, good team work.
• All useful, Very interesting. Very informative. Thank you, children enjoyed it.
• Brilliant event. Thank you.
• Campaign ideas gave the children some great things to focus on. A good meeting which captured the interest of both adults and children. Looking forward to the next meeting.
• Good afternoon. My children enjoyed and got a lot out of it.
• We thoroughly enjoyed it - thank you!

• Great event.
• Great morning!

• Great course with loads of information.
• Very good/enjoyable. To the point and useful.

That's great, thank you for these resources Kimberley. The training was great, gave me lots to reflect on and lots of ideas to bring back to school.

Thank you for yesterday’s staff meeting. I have been bombarded with positive comments in relation to your session today. Everyone really enjoyed it. 

• Louise was fantastic and delivered the information clearly and quickly. I got a lot from it - thanks!
• All the information was delivered clearly and was useful. Thank you Louise & Ellie.
• Well delivered and clear messages.
• It was all very interesting and useful especially with regards to faith school. Thank you.
• Helpful to learn about the different terminology in regards to gender.

• Thank you very much, very thorough & well prepared. Great answers to questions.
• Brilliantly presented and engaging. Made to feel really comfortable!

• Thanks for an informative course.
• Thank you - good knowledge & well delivered.

THANKS!!!! Such wonderful resources. Really enjoyed the day.

• Kimberley was really knowledgeable, great confidence and open to everyone's ideas, very professional, encouraging.
• Really helpful. Excellent pace, thorough, interesting and interactive. Thank you:)
• Thank you very much for a great interactive training session. Well done :)
• Training and resources really helpful. Kimberley was really engaging and made us feel comfortable to share our experiences.
• You are a very positive, organised & interesting trainer :)

• It was good to celebrate our success and that of others.
• A nice balance of rewarding good practice and also informing schools of future offers.
• It was great to see special awards for schools who have excelled in particular areas.
• Well organised.
• Thanks for all your staff's effort and hard work.
• The Healthy Schools programme is amazing! It helps me focus on areas of development and also develop all areas of PSHE. The team are very supportive and staff training is excellent.
• Big thanks to Emma Schneider for her support last year. And we're looking forward to getting stuck in this year!
• Great support, very friendly. Thanks.

The children really enjoyed it and it encouraged them to speak to other children across schools.

• Very informative/relaxed style - gave some good ideas/activities.
• Very useful, thank you very much. Some useful techniques to use both in school and to approach with my own child.
• Great session. Relaxed and great ways to help teach the kids.
• I love the idea of story boards - this is wonderful for SEN kids. I will be using the worry box idea too. Thank you - fab session.

• Really good sessions
• Great session, really engaging. I got a lot out of the session
• I would recommend the course to others

Outstanding training. Feel more confident about delivery of content. Learned more ways to break down barriers to learning. Really well delivered and all really relevant. Really thoroughly enjoyed training session. Louise explained everything really clearly & well.

Well-presented training. Informative. Thank you

It has motivated me to take action with regards to PSHE in school and not simply focus on the Healthy Schools Award.

You were fantastic with the pupils. They gained so much from it and your knowledge and approach was perfect for our young people.

Thank you so much and hope to see you again soon.

What a great course, Kimberley was excellent and I feel excited to start this programme at school.

"The phasing of the session was excellent. The different areas were well-thought out, fun and informative. I loved it and the facilitator was fab!"

It has motivated me to take action with regards to PSHE in school and not simply focus on the Healthy Schools Award.

Thank you so much for the meeting yesterday. All staff really enjoyed and it made them aware of issues they haven't really been aware of before.

“Students from our school really enjoyed taking part in the event. I would like to thank the Healthy Schools team for setting up the event; they have done an excellent job of managing and running the programme.”