Health Promoting Schools

Health Promoting Schools update - October 2007

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What's new

  • Pedometers to Promote Physical Activity - This report will be used to inform schools on the use of pedometers to promote physical activity, and particularly walking, among school-aged children.
  • Travelling Green - The Travelling Green project is designed to encourage children and young people and their parents to feel more confident about walking to and from school, and so increase their levels of habitual physical activity.

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Events


This is just a selection of events with details of conferences, workshops and training events that can be found on our Events page.

  • Understanding autism and improving health and wellbeing (5 November 2007)
    This conference is a must for all practitioners working in education, health care and social care settings.
  • Making Every Child Matter: An Emotionally Literate Approach (13 November 2007)
    The third annual conference of the School of Emotional Literacy.
  • Improving the Wellbeing of People with Learning Disabilities Conference (4-5 December 2007)
    The Division of Developmental Medicine at the University of Glasgow will be holding a conference which should be of interest to professionals working with children or adults with learning disabilities.
  • National PE Conference (19 December 2007)
    Organised by Learning and Teaching Scotland, this conference is for all educational professionals with an interest in physical education.

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News

This is just a selection of the latest stories added to our news page:

  • Schools begin free meals scheme - The BBC reports that primary pupils are starting to receive free school meals as part of a pilot project in five parts of Scotland.
  • Fathers' involvement proves best for children - The Scotsman reports that in a groundbreaking project in Dumfriesshire, Sanquhar Primary School created Scotland's first Men's Group to encourage fathers to become more involved.
  • New road safety education tool - The Herald reports that best-selling author Ian Rankin joined the Transport Minister to launch a new road safety education tool aimed at schoolchildren.
  • Children ‘need more help to cope with pressures of modern life’ - The Herald reports that the children's charity NCH has said more must be done to help young people with the pressures of growing up.

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