Doncaster Council

Doncaster Healthy Schools Programme

The Programme is a supportive quality assurance mechanism, monitoring the progress that schools are making towards gaining national healthy school status and working with other agencies to identify how schools can best be supported in this work. Achieving national healthy school status enables a school to demonstrate its contribution to the five national outcomes for children and supports achievement of the several of the targets within the Children and Young People’s Plan.

Doncaster Healthy Schools Programme is accredited to the National Healthy School Programme, which is led by both the Department for Education and Skills and the Department of Health. 

Doncaster Healthy Schools team is the local accrediting body for the National Healthy School Programme, which has four strategic aims:

• To support children and young people in developing healthy behaviours
• To help to raise pupil achievement
• To help to reduce health inequalities
• To help promote social inclusion   

More than 90% of the schools and pupil referral units in Doncaster are currently working with Doncaster Healthy Schools team towards achieving national healthy school status. 

The team supports schools to involve the whole school community and take a whole school approach to meeting a total of 41 minimum criteria from the 4 compulsory themes;

• Personal Social and Health Education (including Sex and Relationship Education and Drug Education, including alcohol and tobacco);
• Healthy Eating
• Physical Activity and
• Emotional Health and well-being.   

The four members of the team are based in the Health Promotion Development Centre, St Catherine’s Tickhill Road, Balby, Doncaster, DN4 8QN.

Each member has responsibility for a particular theme and supports a specific cohort of schools towards achieving national healthy school status.

Their names and telephone numbers are:

Paul Burns – 01302 312193
Julie Newsome – 01302 312195
Pat Nobbs – 01302 312197
Steve Presley – 01302 312199