Glendale Primary School

Health & Well-Being - Eco-Schools Objectives and Learning Outcomes

Objectives

• to raise awareness of how health issues impact on the environment and vice versa.
• to encourage schools to put into place a sustainable plan for being a healthy school.
• to demonstrate that a healthy school is one that looks holistically at issues of exercise, diet, the aesthetic quality of the school and its grounds, bullying and the risks associated with lifestyle issues (eg sexual activity, smoking, drugs) as well as environmental concerns (eg air pollution).

Learning Outcomes

• Through work on the Health & Well-Being topic, pupils should be enabled to:
• understand the components of a healthy lifestyle.
• make choices and decisions that affect their lives.
• seek professional advice confidently, if required.
• carry out an audit of the well-being of the school, defining areas for investigation and interpreting results.
• collect, interpret and present data in different forms, using ICT as appropriate.