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Apply for a Healthy Schools London Award

Healthy Schools London Awards recognise the achievements of schools in supporting the health and wellbeing of their pupils.

What you can achieve

You can apply for a Bronze level award, and move up to Silver and Gold.

You'll get support and advice for each level.

How to apply for an Award

The first step for a school in applying for an award, is to register with HSL.

The tiered structure of Bronze, Silver and Gold awards helps schools to progressively build on their policies and practice over time. Many schools will automatically qualify for the Bronze award through the work they completed as part of the National Healthy Schools Programme, or through local programmes.

Schools must submit a Local Healthy Schools Review or the completed Healthy Schools London Review Tool (Bronze Award) every three years in order to maintain HSL status at all three levels.

To achieve a Bronze award, a school will need to review its practice in promoting health and wellbeing. There are several ways in which the school can show it has done so, for example:

To apply and receive the Bronze award, the school will need to register with Healthy Schools London. The school can then either complete the Healthy Schools London Review Tool (Bronze Award) or upload the local tool of the award they already hold that qualifies them for HSL Bronze. Once awarded, schools must submit a Local Healthy Schools Review or completed Healthy Schools London Review Tool (Bronze Award) every three years to ensure that they are maintaining HSL Bronze status.

The school should already hold a HSL Bronze award. The school should then use the Healthy Schools London Silver Award Planning Template to do the following:

  • Do a needs analysis that identifies action that will help pupils to achieve and maintain good health and wellbeing. These actions should include one universal action (i.e. that will affect all the pupils in the school) and one targeted action (i.e. that is aimed at a particular group of pupils in the school)
  • Develop an action plan for how they will deliver these actions, that makes clear the outcomes that they are aiming for, and includes milestones by which they will know they are making progress
  • Schools must submit a bi-annual Local Healthy Schools Review or Healthy Schools London Review Tool (Bronze Award) to ensure that they are maintaining HSL Silver status

The school must already hold a HSL Silver award. The school should then use the Healthy Schools London (HSL) Gold Award Reporting Template that they have done the following:

  • That they have achieved the planned outcomes that they set as targets to gain the Silver award. They will need to have recorded and reported this impact
  • They have demonstrated evidence of the sustainability of these change
  • They have engaged with the wider community, and have shared supported others to help children and young people to achieve and maintain good health and wellbeing

Schools must submit a Local Healthy Schools Review or Healthy Schools London Review Tool (Bronze Award) every 2 years to ensure that they are maintaining HSL Gold status.

Support for your application

The Healthy Schools London programme will support schools as they work towards these awards. Local Healthy Schools Leads will provide support to schools where a Borough has a designated post.

The Healthy Schools London team can answer queries and provide support by telephone to London boroughs and to schools. See our available resources or sign up for our newsletter.

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