As a school you can choose to go for the Healthy Schools Platinum award if your school has achieved the Gold Healthy Schools Award.
If it is three years since the school achieved the Gold Award then the school does need to complete the Healthy Schools Gold Renewal Action Plan alongside submitting the platinum identified health priority for the school. If it is under three years since the school achieved the Gold Award only the platinum identified health priority needs to be submitted.
To achieve Platinum, your school needs to identify a health and wellbeing priority and develop new actions to target this. We recommend this priority is part of your School Development Plan. Example priorities might include a focus on supporting pupils to develop their emotional resilience, increasing the amount of physical activity that pupils engage in during the school day, putting in place new measures to encourage healthy packed lunches, reducing bullying and negative behaviours or ensuring that pupils are learning effectively from the planned PSHE curriculum.
Schools need to submit the Platinum Action Plan at the start of the working on the identified health and wellbeing priority. This needs to submitted by one of the three submissions set out each year for healthy schools submissions so the Healthy Schools partnership group can approve the identified health and wellbeing priority.
The school is likely to then work on the identified priority for at least one academic year before submitting the platinum reporting form to provide information on what has been achieved through working towards the identified priority. The platinum reporting form will be processed as part of the Healthy Schools quality assurance process through the three submission dates each academic year.
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