Here you will find all of the resources that are available to you and your school if you are actively engaged with the Manchester Healthy Schools Programme. In order to be actively engaged with the programme you need to have completed the Health Check
Please click on each of the 5 thematic areas below to explore current resources that are available to you. Resources include template policies and policy guidance, curriculum resources and lesson plans as well as links to film clips and documents that you can download to support your action plans across each of the 5 key health priority areas.
These resources are part of our universal offer to schools and can be accessed by all engaged schools.
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 drugs. Developing children and young people's knowledge, skills, attitudes and values in school can support them to live safely in society.
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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 and respect and to reduce the incidence of bullying.
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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, and incorporates a range of resources, staff training and interventions around the topic areas of healthy eating, physical activity and body image.
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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 intervention and prevention strategies in order to develop the resilience and coping skills of children and young people.
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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.
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