Healthy Schools
Pembrey Primary School is part of the Carmarthenshire County Council Healthy Schools' scheme. The project forms part of the 'World Health Organizations initiative European Network of Health Promoting Schools'.
Our aim here at Pembrey Primary School is to help children to grow to be healthy, safe and responsible and become active citizens of our community and wider world.
There are seven different health topics that we as a school address. These include:
- Food and Fitness
- Mental and Emotional Health and Well Being
- Personal Development and Relationships
- Substance Use and Misuse
- Environment
- Safety
- Hygiene
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National Quality Award
We are extremely proud to have achieved the Welsh Network of Healthy School Schemes National Quality Award.
Pembrey CP School has demonstrated meeting all the criteria of the National Quality Award.
These criteria are set out against 7 health topics which are shown below.
NQA Criteria
Food and fitness (nutrition and physical activity)
Mental and emotional health and wellbeing, including staff wellbeing
Personal development and relationships, including sex and relationships education
Substance use and misuse, including alcohol, smoking, and drugs (legal, illegal, and prescription).
Environment, including eco-initiatives and improving the school and wider environment
Safety, including a variety of topics such as child protection, sun safety, internet safety, and first aid
Hygiene including across school and non-school settings
The criteria are supported by a number of underlying principles, namely:
The importance of pupil participation in core areas of school life which directly affect the health and wellbeing of children and young people e.g., teaching and learning, environment, pastoral care
The importance of the understanding and commitment to action of the whole school community
The existence of a positive approach to health
Equality
Schools that achieve the NQA are implementing wellbeing initiatives at the very highest level. The report is both an encouragement and a useful guide as pupils and staff at Pembrey CP School seek to maintain and extend the excellent approach and embed it even further into school life.
Healthy Schools/Ysgolion Iach
- Healthy Lunchboxes/Bocs Bwyd Iach
- Hygiene/Hylendid
- Food and Fitness/Bwyd a Ffitrwydd
- Safety/Diogelwch
- Substances/Sylweddau
- Personal development and Relationships/ Datblygiad Personol a Chydberthynas
- Environment/Amgylchedd
- Mental and Emotional Health and Wellbeing/ Iechyd aLles Meddyliol ac Emosiynol