Introduction
Healthy choices
This is a support package on working with parents to promote good health in children.
A range of staff development materials designed to help schools think about the school’s role in promoting and encouraging healthy lifestyles.
A parent-friendly leaflet that highlights the difference that parents can make by helping their children in making healthy choices and enhancing their physical, social and mental health and well-being. This leaflet is available through schools or can be downloaded from this website.
PDF file: making the difference - healthy choices (172 kB)
An HTML version of the Making the difference - healthy choices leaflet is available on the Scottish Executive website.
Schools may wish to use this as a basis for their own communication with parents or schools may amend the html text as appropriate to suit local circumstances.
More detailed practical information for parents to support their children to be healthy is also available on the Parentzone website. Schools may wish to use these materials to enhance the information made available to parents through the leaflet.
'Making the difference' is a series of information packages for parents and schools to support parents' involvement in their children's learning.
The format of the packages is designed to be as flexible and adaptable as possible, enabling local authorities, schools and parents to draw on and combine the materials in ways that best suit their local wishes and circumstances.
'Making the difference' is produced by:
