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Section 3 Implications for Managers Health education intersects with a variety of activities and subject areas. It should therefore be managed from a vantage point that ensures school-wide vision and priority. One individual should have the responsibility to hold together the various facets of the health education programme. In large schools it might prove helpful to have a health committee to oversee all aspects of health education and health promotion. For some schools, the establishment of a health education programme: will provide a significant initial challenge to establish an appropriate climate to support developments will develop quickly where it can be seen as an integral part of daily activity, engaging staff, pupils and parents in a shared commitment should exemplify the mutual respect evident among staff, students and parents should seek to extend the learning community into aspects of emotional and social wellbeing where positive relationships will help support learning. Where both pupils and teachers are able to accept responsibility for learning, where good relationships are evident across the school, where cooperation and cross-curricular developments exist, where pupils and teachers have high expectations of themselves and where negative behaviour is discouraged, then a high-quality health education programme can develop quickly. Effective health education can be provided in a variety of ways, most usually as part of PSD programmes, but also where health issues are an aspect of teaching in other curriculum areas and subject inserts. School managers have a responsibility to satisfy themselves and their wider community that the health education and health promotion programmes effectively meet pupils' needs and develop their ability to take responsibility for their health. The following evaluation checklists provide series of open-ended questions that can help schools review aspects of their health education provision. This section of the guide also provides background information for managers on some important aspects of health education as well as an indication of the specific attainment targets in the guidelines that relate to safety education, drug education, nutrition education and sex education. Additionally, it provides an extended example of an education authority drug-education programme. [RETURN TO 5-14 ONLINE] [BACK] [INDEX] [NEXT]