Resource Hub

• School food: guidance for governors guiding them on how to create and embed a great school food culture within schools.

• Checklist for headteachers: to help improve school food culture and increase the take up of school dinners.
• This is a checklist of successful actions for schools. It includes specific actions that improve school food culture and increase take-up of school dinners.

• Guidance for schools a practical guide: around food standards to help develop healthy eating habits amongst young people.

• Guidance on Schools food in England: around planning and providing food in schools. It explains how legislation applies to food provided within schools.

This advice will help when planning and providing food in schools. It explains how legislation applies to food provided within schools in England. It...

• HENRY: this website offers help planning and cooking healthy family meals with simple recipes, making it much easier to prepare quick and balanced meals.

• Handy guide for school caterers: around portion sizes and how to make sure school meals are healthy and balanced.

• Healthy Eating campaign resources to encourage pupils to build a healthier lifestyle, can be used for all years, lots of whole school ideas and resources.

A visual resource that can be used to explain a balanced diet and how much you should eat overall from each food group see below.

• Food a fact of life: A range of free teaching resources to use for children and young people aged 3-16yrs to highlight where food comes from, cooking and healthy eating.
• Food a fact of life: Great resources to support teaching and learning about food and nutrition for children with additional needs.

• Food miles calculator: a good resource to use in classroom on the whiteboard to get children to start thinking about how far food has travelled before it reaches the consumer and the environmental impact.

• Food growing resources: some great resources that can be downloaded for pupils aged 5-11 around issues of food and sustainability and resources around growth for British science week.

Dogs Trust's Be Dog Smart programme focusses on Safe Behaviour Around Dogs, and every year they work with hundreds of schools, offering free workshops and assemblies.

A useful guide for school staff around understanding and supporting young people who self-harm.

This practical guidance and toolkit on managing self-harm was produced for schools in Cornwall, but it brings together a variety of information on self-harm including the signs, assessing risk and signposting to more advice.

This guideline covers assessment, management and preventing recurrence for children, young people and adults who have self-harmed. It includes those with a mental health problem, neurodevelopmental disorder or learning disability and applies to all sectors that work with people who have self-harmed....

The Centre for Suicide Research together with colleagues has produced a new resource on Self-harm for School Staff - 'Young people who self-harm: A guide for school staff.'

• The Leicestershire Healthy Schools Team have created guidance to support schools to develop their own Physical Activity Policy. Please find the document below.

• New guidelines to support to support disabled children to be more active.

UK's Chief Medical Officers publish first ever guidelines on physical activity for disabled children and young people.

• New guidelines to support disabled children and young people to be more active
• Guidelines advise 20 minutes of...

• PE and sport premium for primary schools How much PE and sport premium funding schools receive and advice on how it should be spent.

• What works in schools and colleges to increase physical activity? A resource for head teachers, college principals, staff working in education settings, school nurses, directors of public health, Active Partnerships and wider partners.

A resource and activity which explains what you can do to help air pollution by actively travelling to school (see below)

• Choose How You Move Information and resources to promote travelling actively to school. Your school can register with the Modeshift STARS (Sustainable Travel Accreditation and Recognition for Schools) programme. This is a national awards scheme to recognise schools demonstrating excellence in supporting...

• Teacher training: physical health and fitness Practical training materials for primary and secondary schools to use to train staff to teach about physical health and fitness.

• New activity cards deliver inclusion, challenging, and fun PE sessions.

Activity Alliance and partners release series of inclusive PE activity cards for teachers and school staff. The cards are jam-packed with fun games and activities, and support teachers to ensure their PE sessions are inclusive and...

• Smarter ways to travel assemblies resources for KS1-2 around air pollution, switch of your engines, walking zones and park and stride.

The key to improving activity levels, the environment and reducing congestion around schools is to educate and inspire children. It is important to teach children both...

• BBC Super Movers Fun curriculum linked resources to get your class moving while they learn. This includes a variety of different videos and lyric sheets in order to keep your class engaged and moving!

• Shake Up toolkit – fun, bite-sized activities Shake Up your school with these Disney, Pixar and Marvel inspired resources for teachers, leaders and other school staff to promote physical activity and engage parents beyond the gates.

Provides support for parents and carers on healthy minds, healthy bodies, health issues and support services.

Classroom Resources

• PE lesson plans Easy ideas for the playground and wet play.

This resource is linked to Change 4 Life and includes lesson ideas and a wall chart with activity ideas, stickers and badges

Lots of tips, information and advice on how to support children's mental health.