Effective drugs education
Thank you very much for delivering that last night and sending the slides. We really appreciate your support.
At Manchester Healthy Schools we pride ourselves on the strong relationships that we have built with our schools. Working in partnership, we ensure we maximise the quality of health education and support for children and young people in Manchester.
Thank you very much for delivering that last night and sending the slides. We really appreciate your support.
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!!
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.
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 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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
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
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.
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.
· 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.
· 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!
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.
These look excellent Kelly! I bet they will go down a storm!
· 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.
Great session, thanks.
Very professional and informative.
It was amazing. Nothing wrong.
Thoughtful & well delivered.
Thank you. Really good informative training. Very interactive which made the course more interesting.
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.
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
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.
THANKS!!!! Such wonderful resources. Really enjoyed the day.
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!
The children really enjoyed it and it encouraged them to speak to other children across schools.
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.
I thought it was an excellent morning with fantastic engagement and debating skills from all pupils. Well done.
Well-presented training. Informative. Thank you
Very Helpful-Thank you!
It has motivated me to take action with regards to PSHE in school and not simply focus on the Healthy Schools Award.
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!
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.
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!
What a great course, Kimberley was excellent and I feel excited to start this programme at school.
"Thank you for all you do to support the health and happiness of children in Manchester."
"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!"
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.
It has motivated me to take action with regards to PSHE in school and not simply focus on the Healthy Schools Award.
“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.”
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.
Very supportive, very useful. All schools across the UK should have a healthy schools programme like this. Thank you, I appreciate all your help.
“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.”
Fantastic team giving us all fabulous support and ensuring we have healthier children as a result!