WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT US

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!

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 :-) 

Thank you very much for delivering that last night and sending the slides. We really appreciate your support.

Many thanks for the bitesize training it was useful! We do not currently mention magnets in our risk assessments when we do the initial meeting with families, so I have suggested to the managers to incorporate these. Thank you again.

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. 

Dear Kimberley, I wanted to personally say ‘thank you’ for your attendance and contributions yesterday afternoon at the GM MHST Showcase event. I feel that we certainly demonstrated the successful partnership working and excellent developments for Manchester, which was demonstrated with our strong Manchester representation on the call.

Many thanks also to all of you at Healthy Schools for the hard work research and all the ideas/activities you produce as well as taking on board.

Keep up the fantastic work.

Dear Zain, The training was fantastic this morning, the staff have been to see me that are working in school and have said it was super and they will use lots of the ideas you suggested. 

Any training linked to wellbeing and mental health has been super important for our staff and hopefully gives them the strategies to get through these difficult times. 

Thanks to you and Emma, we are all better equipment to deal with whatever this pandemic is throwing at us. 

Thank you as always to all of the team at Healthy Schools.

Thank you as always for the support during this lockdown. It was so useful last time and we value the work that the team is doing to keep us updated during the pandemic! A massive thank you to you all as a team, for keeping us all going and restoring our enthusiasm when we need it most!

Thanks Eleanor, I have forwarded the link on to the staff! 

No thank you! All of the team at Healthy Schools have worked their socks off to ensure we feel confident going back into the classroom, each time we have faced something new in the pandemic. That has not gone unnoticed! Not all heroes wear capes!

We cannot thank you all enough for your ongoing support, we'd be lost without it! 

Many thanks again. 

What a great end to a long week receiving this, the new format is great and the School Recovery Toolkit link on page 3 has been so well received here. That is a quite brilliant piece of work.

Good to see the Accident Prevention calendar as I've not had the chance to catch up on this work with Helen.

We're sharing this with our wider Population Health Team ahead of the full team meeting next week, it really showcases the value of our Healthy Schools team.

Hope it gets the feedback it deserves.

Thanks

Commissioning Manager

This is a brilliant piece of work and so useful. Will send it out to all my staff.

Well done

Head of Physio

Thank you for sharing the new-look Healthy Schools autumn newsletter which includes the launch of your recovery toolkit resource to support the whole school community in the transition back to school post Covid lockdown

It is also exciting to read about Healthy Schools Service launch of the DfE funded Wellbeing for Education Return Programme in partnership with MCC colleagues.

The breadth of topics that the newsletter and your service covers is extremely impressive to read and will really make a difference to the health and outcomes of Manchester school children.

The aim of Healthy Schools is to help as many schools and college providers in Manchester as possible to provide wellbeing support for children and young people .The newsletter is evidence you do this very well.

Very well done and please pass on my congratulations to all your team.

I have included senior members of MLCO leadership team, as knowledge of the partnership work taking place in Manchester targeting hot topics such as drugs and alcohol, mental and emotional health ,will be useful in discussions with MCC Childrens Social Care leads

Thank you 

Lead Nurse

Thank you Kimberley and Karen for sharing this excellent work.

Chief Nurse

• Yes it seems a good combination of professionals working together to achieve the same aim.
• I have every faith that the support from the Manchester Healthy Schools Team will continue to be of a very high quality and timely.
• I think it’s a good way to combine both the clinical expertise of the school nurse with the school development expertise of Healthy Schools.

• Thanks a lot.
• It was very informative and presented in an engaging manner, thank you!
• Excellent course, thank you.
• It was a really useful and informative training session.
• A brilliant information session - thanks so much!
• This was a fantastic session, which was presented really well. I really appreciate how challenging it can be to keep people engaged during online training but Cat did an excellent job.
• The information was useful and the time was spent productively. What a great session! Thank you!
• Thank you a really informative session!
• Thanks so much very useful course
• Thank you very much! 

That's fabulous Anne - thanks so much for this and for all the great work you do.

Wow! Well done Kimberley and all the team, not only is this a fantastic way to recognise the schools in the current circumstances but it also demonstrates the hard work and professionalism of the team. The poem was fantastic and made me a bit teary!

Throughout all the difficulties of the last few months the Healthy Schools Team has continued to shine and make us all in CCHS very proud. Thank you.

Lead Manager

Seconded! Thank you HS.

Assistant Director 

Amazing feedback and thoroughly well deserved, I have been enjoying the awards this afternoon on Twitter. Well done all and thank you.

Operational Manager 

Fabulous virtual awards by healthy schools team today. Superb work and a great way to end this strangest of school years.

Head of Communications & Engagement

Unbelievable work in unprecedented times. Congratulations all for everything you do.

Chief Nurse & Professional Lead

Dear Clare

Thank you for supporting our lunchtime event on International Women’s Day. You were a great help because you brought your bright ideas and people to the Mental Health Stall/Healthy Schools Stall. We could have not done it without you.

Thanks again for Friday.

·        Just fab as always!

·        Thank you! Very helpful with all info given.

·        Fantastic as always ladies! Thank you for your ongoing support!

·        Prompt / clear / well organised & quick! Very good!

·        Very well presented - thank you!

·        Thank you - extremely well delivered!

These look excellent Kelly! I bet they will go down a storm!

• Very clear & efficient delivery.
• Great strategies to use in PSHE lessons. Learning correct terminology to use regarding gender.
• Great activities, especially the depersonalisation and "ask-it-basket".

• I enjoyed learning about the signs and how to keep safe
• I enjoyed learning about the rules in open water
• I liked the swimming games
• The thing I enjoyed was the discussion

• Thank you! Enjoyed the course, very helpful!
• Excellent presentation. Thank you.
• Nicola is brilliant!

Very professional and informative.

Thoughtful & well delivered.

Thank you. Really good informative training. Very interactive which made the course more interesting.

• Really well delivered. Thank you very much!
• Strategies - very useful. Delivery was excellent. Very informative.
• All very informative! Great session!
• Thank you for some very informative training.

• Comprehensive training session!
• Fab - thank you!
• Great - eye opening. Thank you.
• Well delivered, lots to think about!
• Clear informative delivery.
• Clear. Concise. Informative. No 'waffle'.

• The training was very well delivered with a good mix of group work & presentation.
• Very informative - will influence future practice.
• Really enjoyed the training - good knowledge delivered around different drugs.
• Thank you for an informative session.

• Great training.
• Very well presented. Confident speaker. Really informative.
• Really well presented course!

• Currently working with the fab team at Healthy Schools including Helen with all this. Helen is extremely knowledgeable and approachable to work with. Our experience of working with her is really positive.
• Thanks for this. Very informative and well pitched.
• Good knowledge and understanding was shared in a fun, lively way. Thank you.

• Very informative and up to date resources. Very well led!
• Amazing training. Very informative - lots of useful docs.
• Very useful. Great delivery. Would love to book for staff training!

• Delivered brilliantly
• The course was very informative and engaging. I really enjoyed it!
• All informative and helpful. Delivered with humour and understanding

• Very good & encouraging for being more active. 
• Enjoyed learning and left me feeling positive towards a healthy lifestyle. 
• Delivery was clear and concise. And eye opening!!
• Fantastic Helen, you are changing the world. Keep it up! 

All the course was delivered in a very interesting way. 

Interactive. Fun. Informative. 

A personal thanks for helping me to identify stressors, find coping strategies & set targets to improve. 

Thank you for making us smile and have a laugh too

• All very interesting. Lots of help as new to role.
• Well planned & structured. Clear advise and lots of useful tips.
• Slides were all very informative and clear. The PSHE info was fully covered. Good mix of activities.
• Really useful to know what OFSTED want/expect to see. Games/activities made it fun. Thank you.

Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the ceremony yesterday, so glad it went well.

I was so enthusiastic when I got back to school....even though we had Ofsted in!

I had lots of ideas for our school not to mention our next aim is getting Gold.

....I found yesterday so useful and now I`m ready to go.

Please pass on my thanks to all of your team you have done an amazing job.

I just wanted to say a huge thank you for coming in last week, the stand looked fantastic. And thank you also for the blender, that was a great surprise! We'll think of something great to do with that.

Thanks again for all of your help so far this term.

I thought Kelly was engaging, informative, knowledgeable, interactive, used multiple learning styles, info was current. Kelly had energy, gentle tone with a good volume. Was good at breaking down the slides & elaborating - rather than just reading. I think Kelly did a fantastic job of delivering.

Just emailing to say a big thank you for taking the time to come into school on Wednesday. It was really well received and everyone I spoke to found it really useful and informative so thank you very much!

• Great training, useful and gave food for thought. Also good opportunity to get ideas from other schools. Thank you!
• The training used a range of delivery techniques to engage different learning styles and break up the day - very informative.
• Fantastic subject knowledge.
• Thank you - I have learnt loads today and look forward to working with you in next few weeks to develop PSHE within my school.
• Activities in between were really good/relevant/interesting.
• A good day. Enjoyed, really informative. Came away with new ideas.

• ·        Today’s lesson was all about anti-bullying. I liked this lesson because it was fun. I learnt a lot more about respect and now I know what it feels like to be bullied.
• ·        I liked what we learned today because now when I see someone in trouble I am going to speak out for them as it is the right thing to do.
• ·        I liked it because it taught me the effects of bullying, the way people can feel and that it is ok to be different.
• ·        I think that it was a very helpful lesson about anti-bullying and I know what to do if I ever get bullied.

• Good ideas for CPD.
• I enjoyed having guest speakers and seeing services available to us.
• Useful to see how to raise standards in school. Thank you for all your advice & support.
• Looking forward to next PSHE network meeting.
• PSHE (raising profile) - excellent advice. One of the best sessions to date - extremely helpful.

• Informative and relevant
• Enjoyed the session - lots of discussion
• Really well delivered and suitable for my role
• Really enjoyed the training. Staff absorbed the info and will put it into practice
• Enjoyed the session, very engaging

• Enjoyed all of it
• Excellent - would like more courses on this
• I found the course content easily accessible
• Good, informative session
• Enjoyed the session
• Enjoyable & relevant
• Can't wait to work with Emma in the future!

I thought it was an excellent morning with fantastic engagement and debating skills from all pupils. Well done.

Very Helpful-Thank you!

Please pass on my thanks to you and your team. Everyone does work so hard. It is great to have schools take the time to recognise your input.

Well done all and keep up the good work!

The course was fantastic, best course I've been on. Enjoyed all the activities. Everything was good, made to feel very comfortable. Great delivery & great course!

"Thank you for all you do to support the health and happiness of children in Manchester."

The session was really informative and provided a useful opportunity to take a step back and look at how we ‘manage’ ourselves. The trainer was very knowledgeable and delivered the session in a positive and accessible way.

“The pupils enjoyed the Young Voices session very much and they have used the resources and ideas shared with them at the session with the rest of the school council to develop an assembly to deliver during Anti-bullying week. Please see a picture below from their assembly.” 

Very supportive, very useful. All schools across the UK should have a healthy schools programme like this. Thank you, I appreciate all your help.

Fantastic team giving us all fabulous support and ensuring we have healthier children as a result!