Living Well Schools

What is Living Well Schools?

Living Well Schools is the Healthy Schools programme for Bradford, making it easier for schools to become health-promoting environments by removing health-related barriers to education. It provides the foundation for pupils to grow, learn and become healthy, educated and engaged citizens.

Living Well Schools was born from the need to streamline the integration of health and wellbeing resources into schools, addressing common challenges many school leaders face when prioritising and navigating the myriad of health and wellbeing offers available.

How do we support schools?

Living Well Schools has a team of dedicated School Leads who work directly with senior leaders to implement a whole school approach to health and wellbeing.

Using a bespoke profiling tool and customised support framework, Living Well Schools makes it easier for schools to incorporate accurate, evidence-based health messaging and support. The process is flexible to meet the individual needs of schools and covers four key priority areas: physical activity, eating well, mental wellbeing, and poverty.

To ensure the opinions and priorities of children and young people are included throughout process, a pupil voice strand with additional resources is incorporated into the support offer.

Key Priorities

Physical Activity

Eating Well

Emotional Wellbeing

Poverty

Pupil Voice

Meet the Team

The Living Well Schools Leads, Team Lead and Public Health Specialist are all part of the Healthy Communities team in Public Health at Bradford Council.

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