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.

• 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.

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.

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!

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!