How to involve parents and community
Written by HEPCOMThe active involvement of parents and community is essential to the health promoting school. This tool gives examples of how to involve different target groups.
The curriculum and the IVAC approach
Written by HEPCOMThis tool points out the importance of integrating health education in the curriculum of the school and gives examples of active methods of teaching methods in health education, e.g. the IVAC approach.
What is health?
Written by HEPCOMThis tool points out activities on discussing "What is health?", e.g. a quiz. It also outlines the key differences in definitions of health.
Deciding on values
Written by HEPCOMThis tools shows a concrete activity concerning how to decide on values for your school.
Devoloping a school health policy
Written by HEPCOMAn integral part of developing a health-promoting school is creating a health policy that underpins the work. This tool shows some essential steps regarding that. See also the good practice example.
Learning activity - working with partners
Written by HEPCOMA tool to help you reflect how you understand the whole school community and how it effects your work.
Learning activity - Participation
Written by HEPCOMA tool to help you reflect the following: To what extent are pupils and parents involved in the planning and implementation of health activity in your school?
A brainstorming tool to find out how your school is doing to be a health promoting school and what you can do better. What factors are influential in shaping how the health promoting school is taken forward in the daily work?
Effective Networks and Partnerships
Written by HEPCOMThis tool shows which factors promote and inhibit networks and partnerships.
School action planner
Written by HEPCOMThe School action planner is designed to assist you in the process of becoming a health promotion school, for example to describe your aims and actions and determine who will be responsible for what. In doing this, it helps you make the process go better, organise your communication and help you move forward effectively in your plan. It shows five phases of becoming and remaining a health promoting school.
School health promotion
Written by HEPCOMSchool health promotion could be defined as any activity undertaken to improve and/or protect the health of the whole school community. This factsheet summs up how to achieve the universal establishment of health promoting schools successfully.
HEPS School Level Indicators
Written by HEPCOMThese School Level Indicators give an overview of aspects that need to be considered in planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating a whole school policy on healthy eating and physicaln activity. They are designed to help schools when writing and fine tuning the components of their policy. They can help in monitoring and evaluating the policy's implementation.
SHE rapid assesment tool
Written by HEPCOMTo assess your school’s current policies and practices related to health promotion to determine your school community’s needs and priorities you can use the SHE rapid assessment tool. The tool consists of a series of questions related to the whole-school approach. Answering the questions can help you identify what your school already does well, what areas need improvement and what you want to focus on in your health promoting school.
SHE Online School Manual
Written by HEPCOMThe SHE online school manual is intended for school management, teachers and other school staff who are involved in the development of health promoting schools in the primary and secondary school setting. The manual is a step-by-step guide on how to become a health promoting school, presented in five, consecutive phases. For each phase, key concepts and actions are described to help you complete the necessary actions in that phase.
These guidelines on promoting healthy eating and physical activity in schools are intended for the SHE network coordinators and national policy makers in EU membernations. They can also be use by school directors and professionals to create more and better opportunities for children and young people - as a basis that allows to go further in developing and implementing more specific guidelines. These Guidelines and the HEPS Advocacy Guide are designed to compliment each other.
The IVAC Approach
Written by HEPCOMThe Investigation-Vision-Action-Change (IVAC) model provides a framework for the development of healthpromoting strategies that ensure that the insight and knowledge that pupils acquire during the project is action-orientated and interdisciplinary and, therefore, conducive to the development of action competence.
This advocacy guide aims to influence the direction of policy regarding the promotion of healthy eating and physical activity through the health promoting school approach. It offers information with regards to the ‘why', 'how', 'with whom' and 'when' steps to successfully support the implementation of the HEPS Guidelines.