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

Boost - 14th March 2019

Universal Primary Secondary Special

This one-day train-the-trainer course will enable staff to successfully use the Boost resources with their parents and carers. Boost is a si...

Connect 5 Training - 7th February 2019

Universal Primary Secondary Special

This skills-based training course aims to build the confidence and competence of front-line staff so they are able to respond helpfully to y...

Life skills-based Education for Drug Use Prevention - 5th March 2019

Universal Primary Secondary

The aim of the training is to introduce teachers and other educators who work with young people to use life skills-based approaches for drug...

The Links between Communication and Behaviour - 20th March 2019