Health Improvement Grants Programme for East Sussex Schools
Grant Expenditure Proposal
School Name: / Example schoolSchool Address: / Good example school
School Contact: / Mr An Example
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Contact Telephone: / 01234 567899
Introduction:
ESCC Public Health and Children’s Services are working with schools and FE/HE colleges across East Sussex to create a step change in the way that schools and colleges improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people, with a particular focus on childhood obesity.
To achieve this aim, every state school and college in East Sussex was given the opportunity to apply for a £10,000 Health Improvement Grant during February/March 2016.
As part of the Health Improvement Grant your school has signed, you have agreed to:
- Develop a school health profile and health improvement action plan within 12 months of receiving the Grant
- Submit a full proposal on how the Grant will be spent and have this agreed by ESCC Public Health prior to spending the resource
- Commit to spending your £10,000 Health Improvement Grant by the end of March 2017 and share details of the impact and outcomes of the Grant with ESCC Public Health (as well as records of how the resource has been spent).
a)yourSchool Heath Profile
b)your draft Health Improvement Action Plan
To help you to develop your School Heath Profile and Health Improvement Action Plan, please use the guidance/templates provided, alongside the support offered via the East Sussex School Health Service.
The information gatheredthrough the development of your School Health Profilewillhelp you to identify and evidence the key health improvement needs of your school community and will inform the focus of your draft Health Improvement Action Plan and Grant Expenditure Proposal. Through this process you will consider relevant public health and school level data, as well as staff, pupil and parent voice. Please note that you will be required to attach both your School Heath Profile and draft Health Improvement Action Plan when submitting your Grant Expenditure Proposal.
It is also recommended that you refer to the “Information to support the development of evidence-based activities that promote health and wellbeing of children and young people in schools and collegesin East Sussex” before developing your draft Health Improvement Action Plan and submitting your Grant Expenditure Proposal. This resource details evidence-based approaches for supporting children and young people’s health and wellbeing within school settings, as well as links to example programmes and suggested resources.
All grant expenditure must be agreed in advance. However, schools may wish to use a proportion of the grant funding to support development of the preparatory work required before the grant expenditure proposal is submitted (e.g. production of the school health profile and action plan, including any engagement activities). Schools are encouraged to maximise the impact of the funding for use during the implementation phase. Where required, up to 10% (£1000) of the grant funding provided has been pre-agreed and can be utilised to support planning and development prior to submission of a grant expenditure proposal. Full detail of how this funding has been used must be provided within the grant expenditure proposal. Schools wishing to use more than 10% of the grant for planning and development prior to approval of the grant expenditure proposal should discuss their needs with the East Sussex School Health Service.
Finally, where appropriate,schools and colleges may choose to combine their Health Improvement Grant in order to fund joint initiatives, and in doing so, may submit a joint Grant Expenditure Proposal. Should you decide to submit a joint Grant Expenditure Proposal, this must demonstrate how the proposed grant expenditure meets identified health improvement needs across all participating schools. All joint Grant Expenditure Proposals will also require a signature from each participating school.
A Whole School Approach
Promoting the health and wellbeing of pupils and students within schools not only has the potential to improve their health and wellbeing outcomes, but also their educational outcomes. Robust evidence shows that interventions taking a ‘whole school’ approach have a positive impact in relation to a range of health improvement behaviours and outcomes (such as body mass index, physical activity, physical fitness, fruit and vegetable intake, tobacco use, and being bullied). A whole school approach is one that goes beyond the learning and teaching in the classroom to permeate all aspects of the life of a school including:
- Leadership, management and managing change
- Policy development
- Curriculum planning and resources, including working with outside agencies
- Learning and teaching
- School culture and environment
- Giving children and young people a voice
- Provision of support services for children and young people
- Staff professional development needs, health and welfare
- Partnerships with parents, carers and local communities
- Assessing, recording and reporting children and young people’s achievement.
- Please provide a brief descriptionand financial breakdown of how you plan to use your Health Improvement Grant to support delivery of your draft School Health Improvement Action Plan.
- Please provide relevant information, including health improvement activity/programme details and any external provider details, where appropriate. Part of your activity must include a focus on addressing childhood obesity.
1.a) Brief description of your activity / activities:
Area 1: Obesity prevention (Physical Activity)
Appoint a healthy school lead from the schools teaching team. This teacher will develop school’s health policy and engage with parents and wider stakeholders. £1000 will be used to cover the member of staff and allow dedicated time to develop and implement our health improvement plan. Activities will include an audit of physical activity levels, particularly focusing on how pupils get to and from school.
Example school will use£2,500 of the grant funding to develop and train an additional 8 (non-PE) teaching staff to run and deliver extracurricular physical activity interventions. This training from example programme badminton trainingwill allowthese teachers to run dance, gymnastics and badminton lessonsfor all the school community.
Example School will purchase 30 Bluetooth enabled pedometers to run a ‘step challenge’ through year 9 with each form.
Every student will be offered a pedometer for month and a bassline will be captured after one full day. Students will be encouraged to work with each other for the month to maximise their steps (walk to school, lunch time activities etc.). There will be an interclass competition and the class with the largest footsteps will receive recognition as well as the top ten most improved individuals will be recognised for their improvement in physical activities.
Example school will upgrade our bike shed for £500. This will add additional capacity and encourage more students and staff to cycle to work.Parents will receive a newsletter to encourage them to support physical activity initiatives particularly around getting to and from school.
Area 2: Obesity prevention (healthy diet)
Improve and redesign our canteen area as evidence demonstrates that where young people eat is as just as important as what they eat. £1000 contribution from health improvement grant and an additional £8,000 will be released by the Teacher and Parent association (TPA)
Example school will allocate £2000, to review and improve our canteen menu in line the with the example service resources and standards. Our aim by the end the academic year is to achieve anexcellent food award £800.00 (additional annual fee of £300)
£2000 Train-the-trainerSchool Cooks course for two school cooks. This will be cascaded through the rest of the team by July 2017.
Example school will produce and distribute healthy eating news letters to all year 7 and 8 parents twice a year in line with the free resources from the children’s food trust. This will include ideas for healthy lunch boxes and also promote the improved school canteen menu.
Example school will expand our gardening club to year’s 7 – 9 students through science and food tech classes. We will purchase two green housesto promote growing fruit and vegetables with year 7 – 9.Our science and technology departments are very keen to expand this after a success first year with year 8.
Focus Area: 3 Improving wellbeing and resilience
Resilience is highly correlated with academic achievement and educational success. With this in mind our academy trust will be using £2500 towards ‘example resilience course’. 6 key members of schools staff will attend this course and the cost is split between other schools in our academy trust including our main feeder primary school.
Example School will continue to utilise the free PSHE Association membershipto develop our PSHE curriculum particular on mental health and emotional wellbeing.We will enhance our curriculum and using exampleResource. To support our work on Teenage PregnancyAlcohol, Drugs, Bullying Self Harm, Sexual Orientation, Emotional Neglect and Healthy Lifestyles.
Focus Area 4: Sexual health and online safety
Our school is already utilising the free support from the Sex education Forum by using membership plus and developing our developing our Relationship and sex education curriculum. We will be using £2000 to run the R u different programme with our year 9 groups. This will focus on relationships, Safety and sexual health.
Fund additional teaching assisting hours to run small group work on Relationships, sexual health,self-esteem and body-image courses. Teaching assistant will utilise free resources from sex education from and the health promotion resource library.
PSHE lead will complete online training from CEOP about online safety
1.b) Financial Breakdown:
- This should also include details of any relevant school funding or match funding from any other specified sources
Area 1: Obesity prevention (Physical Activity)
£1000 to create healthy school lead cover / release costs.
£2500 for staff CPD to develop additional physical activity offer for whole school community, including dance, gymnastics and badminton.
£100 to print and design recognition awards for pedometer challenge
Area 2: Obesity prevention (healthy diet)
£2000 for the example service to review and improve our school canteen menu
£800to join example ‘Excellent Food Award’
£2000 for two school chefs to attend train the trainer sessions by the example service
£600for two large green houses to expand our gardening and embed in KS3 science and Food technology lessons
Focus Area: 3 Improving wellbeing and resilience
£2500 contribution to example resilience course with other Academy trust members.
£99 to purchase the example resource PSHE approved resource to enrich our PSHE lessons
Area 4: Sexual health and online safety
£2000 for the R U different programme
£1800 to fund additional TA hours for sexual health group for targeted students
£20 to access CEOP online safety course.
- When do you expect to commence the activities outlined in Question 1 and for how long will these activities take place?
Physical activity
September 2016 - Appoint a healthy schools lead. This will be a permeant post within the school.
September 2016 - Purchase and install new bike shed this is guaranteed for 10 years.
October 2016 - Train dance, badminton and gymnastics teachers. Training teachers make sustainable.
March – distribute physical activity questionnaire and evaluate badminton, dance and gymnastics classes.
July 2016 participation and achievement event.
Healthy Diet
September 2016 Improve and redesign canteen (works carried out October half term)
September review canteen menu, reduce high sugar content drinks.
October School cooks training- training will be cascade through to all school canteen staff
January and April - healthy eating news letters to year 7 and 8 students.
March – July 2017. Develop and embed gardening club in food tech and science lessons. Seeds will be kept to maintain produce stock for next year. Green houses guaranteed for 10 years.
June/July 207 Join ‘excellent food award’ scheme
July 2016 participation and achievement event.
Improving wellbeing and resilience
September 2016 – purchase example resources for PSHE. These will be used for a number years.
January 2017 – staff attend example course.
February – April – review and implement resilience initiatives
June 2017 evaluate resilience initiatives
Area 4: Sexual health and online safety
September 2016 start R U different which will run for two years– resources produced can be used for a few years across the school.
March 2017 set up relationship and sexual healthy group for 20 students. Resources can be kept but TA position isn’t secure for September 2018.
CEOP online training can be cascaded through school teams for many years.
July 2016 participation and achievement event.
3. Please provide details of how the activity outlined in Question 1 will address a health improvement need identified within your School Health Profile?
(e.g. relevant public health/school level data, findings of your whole school review)
57% of pupils enrolled at example school Academy live within the 20% most deprived areas in England (based on Index of Multiple Deprivation 2010)
44% of pupils enrolled at example school live in the most deprived IDACI quintile in England (20% most deprived areas in England for income deprivation affecting children)
Focus Area 1:
Obesity prevention (Physical Activity)
In Example town;
Approximately 44% of year 10 pupils wanted to lose weight. This is similar to the East Sussex average of 41%.
23% of boys regarded themselves as a little or very overweight. The East Sussex average was 10%.
36% of girls regarded themselves as a little or very overweight. The East Sussex average was 32%.
In 2014, the percentage of children in East Sussex who travelled to secondary school by car, taxi or van was 16%.
In 2014, the percentage (28%) of children in example town who travelled to secondary school by car, taxi or van was significantly higher than the East Sussex average.
In 2014, the wards of ward A (28%), ward B (56%), ward C (29%) and ward D (36%) had a significantly higher percentage of secondary school children that travelled to school by car, taxi or van than the East Sussex average.
From our pupil voice young people said they wanted more informal ways outside of PE to be physically active;Dance sessions after school, gymnastics at lunch and badminton sessions. The school staff has also expressed a desire to be able to expand the extra circular sessions they offer. Students said they wanted to cycle to school more.
With this data from the school health profile we will gather base line data on physical activity. Train teachers to deliver more physical activity classes such as dance and gymnastics. Will be activity promote walking and cycling to school and expand the capacity of the bike shed.
Healthy eating
In example town:
- The percentage of Year 10 pupils who reported eating five portions of fruit/veg the previous day was significantly worse than the East Sussex average.
- Approximately 1 in 5 girls had only a drink for breakfast
- 24% of girls had no lunch
- Over 12/3 of girls had chocolate as a snack in school
- 16% of boys had no breakfast
- Only 26% of boys had a school lunch
- Only 16% of boys had fruit as a snack in school
- 29% of boys had chocolate as a snack in school
Example school will also develop our food technology and science lesson with growing fruit and vegetables. Our year 8’s said they enjoyed cooking but didn’t know how to cook nice things with vegetables. Our new green houses will support Years 7 to 9 to grow, prepare and cook fresh produce.
September 2016 – purchase pedometers
October start pedometer step challenge
Focus Area 3: Improving wellbeing and resilience
39.8 in 1000 in a local ward access CAMHS this is significantly above the East Sussex average.
42% of pupils at the school come from example ward. All there local wards and other local ward in the identified catchment area also have a higher rate of children and young people 0 – 18 years receiving the CAMHS service than the East Sussex average.
Our parent engagement also highlighted that emotional wellbeing and resilience was a key concern for them. Other schools in our academy trust have committed to developing our resilience programme which will be kick-started attending example course.