Enhancement Model
From September 2009 the National Healthy Schools Programme will evolve to include the Healthy Schools enhancement model, which has been designed to help schools develop the wider thinking and planning they will need to do, in order to achieve better outcomes around health and well-being for children and young people. It has also been designed to help schools to strive for lasting health and well-being behaviour changes in children and young people, with particular focus on providing targeted support for those who are most at risk.
The Surrey Healthy Schools team will work closely with schools to achieve locally agreed health and well-being outcomes. This will reflect school-based local and national priorities as outlined in the Local Area Agreements, Children and Young People’s Plans and PCT operational plans. The enhancement model will provide schools with rigorous health and well-being evidence for schools improvements plans, the Ofsted self Evaluation Form and the pupil level well-being indicators and school report card.
The Surrey Healthy Schools team will support schools throughout the gradual transition. The transition to the Enhancement Model will depend on the National Healthy School Status (NHSS) achievement date. Schools that validated in 2006 will be invited first; other Surrey schools will have plenty of time to make the transition.
It will provide vital leadership in translating into practice the Government’s vision of the 21st Century School and helping to make this the best country in the world to grow up.
Annual review
The annual review is a tool to help your school maintain the foundation of health and well-being which you have already achieved through NHSS. From now on you will need to complete and share your responses to all the sections in this tool on an annual basis, to maintain your current Healthy School status. If you are still working towards achieving NHSS, you are not yet ready to start using the annual review and should be using the national audit instead.
The annual review has been developed from the criteria of NHSS across the four Healthy Schools themes. It will also help you check whether the Healthy Schools work you do in school is being embedded through the whole school approach. It contains no new requirements.
The information you have entered in the national audit to gain NHSS will help you complete the annual review – it can be copied across. You will self-validate against the annual review in the same way as the national audit.
Health and well-being improvement tool
The health and well-being improvement tool (HWIT) will help you plan and record your work as part of the Healthy Schools enhancement model. It provides a series of questions for each stage of the enhancement model which act as prompts.
Its main purpose is to enable you to keep a record of the work you undertake as you work the stages of the enhancement model. The information you record will contribute towards the Ofsted self-evaluation form (SEF) and your school improvement plan.
Where there are links with the requirements of the SEF, the School Report Card, the well-being indicators and school improvement, this is highlighted throughout the HWIT. The content of the HWIT will also automatically generate the two separate reports required for the local quality assurance system.
The Enhancement Model is delivered in three distinct phases and 8 process stages.
View the handbooks below for more detailed information about these Enhancement Model processes.
- Planning our change (Stages 1- 5)
- Delivering our change (Stages 6 & 7)
- Understanding what's changed (Stage 8)
If you have any questions don’t hesitate to contact any one of the Surrey Healthy Schools Team.
Relevant Downloads:
Extended Services 1
SEAL presentation
Extended Services 3
Linking RRSA and SEAL
RRSA and pupil interviews
RRSA and rights respecting classrooms
RRSA benchmarks
RRSA plan level 1
RRSA plan level 2
RRSA: the case for rights respecting schools
RRSA: what rights?