Welcome to our Training and Events page

Training

The Manchester Healthy Schools Programme has been designed to enable all schools in Manchester to gain access to high quality and effective training in order to support better health outcomes for children and young people within their provision.Schools need to have completed the Health Check to be engaged with the programme and to be able to access this free training. Please note, whilst many of our training courses are part of our 'universal' offer available to all schools, some courses are available for priority schools only. Please see individual training courses for further information about which training your school is able to access.

Please explore all of our training courses and events below.

A Whole School Approach To health And Well Being

Drugs and Alcohol Education

Drugs and alcohol education is fundamental for children and young people to grow up healthy and safe. Effective alcohol and drug education builds pupils’ resilience and life skills around alcohol and...

Emotional Health and Resilience

Manchester Healthy Schools are committed to improving the emotional health and wellbeing of children and young people across the city. We support schools to promote equality and diversity, tolerance a...

Healthy Lifestyles

The Healthy Lifestyles theme aims to promote and develop healthy lifestyle choices in the school age population, preventing and reducing the number of children with excess weight across Manchester, an...

Mental Health and Wellbeing

More than 1 in 10 children and young people now suffer from a common mental health disorder (YoungMinds, 2017). Manchester Healthy Schools is committed to supporting schools to develop early intervent...

Relationships and Sex Education

Manchester Healthy Schools is committed to ensuring good quality, age appropriate sex and relationship education is available to all children and young people across the city.

Behind the behaviour

‘Behind the Behaviour’ is a multi-agency training programme designed to increase awareness and understanding of a range of mental and emotional health problems for professionals and front-line staff w...

Other

You will be able to explore and book all of our non-health specific events in this section. This includes all of our network events and team events like the awarding ceremony and any other Healthy Sch...

Training & Events

For a full list of available training & events please see below

Anti-bullying Policy and Practice

Universal Primary Secondary Special

This training course will support you through the development of preventative, good practice strategies to ensure that all children and youn...

British Values and SMSC - Building Cohesive Communities

Universal Primary Secondary Special

This training course explores the guidance issued by the DfE around the active promotion of ‘British Values’ within school and introduces a...

PRIDE 123

Priority Primary Special

Pride 123 is an interactive web-based drugs and safety education programme for primary schools. This one-hour training session provides an o...

Safeguarding and Sensitive Questions – Be a confident RSE practitioner!

Priority Primary Secondary Special

Suitable for all Key Stages, this hour-long training session seeks to give all staff the confidence in having those ‘difficult conversations...

RSE Policy Guidance

Priority Primary Secondary Special

Both primary and secondary schools have a legal obligation to have an up-to-date RSE policy that describes the content of the relationship a...

Sexual Health - Inclusive RSE in Secondary Schools

Priority Secondary

This training session looks at how we can engage with young people, free from assumptions about gender, sex and sexuality. LGBT+ issues shou...

Pride 123 Refresher Training

Universal Primary Special

Pride 123 is an interactive web-based drugs and safety education programme for primary schools. This one-hour refresher provides an opportun...

Drugs Intervention Training