1. School sports/activity clubs: Woodlane High School (Special school), Hammersmith and Fulham

The school has introduced lunchtime/after school activities and sports to encourage all pupils to get involved which has resulted in increased participation and better fitness levels for all pupils, more enjoyment of the activities and better behaviour. Activities introduced include girls only basketball, circus skills, tag judo.

2. Anti-bullying, Pupil voice: Hambrough Primary School, Ealing

The school has given responsibility to the pupils through a range of programmes including mini-mentor’s where pupils are available for talking through problems with other pupils and reassuring them; playground leaders who set up games and encourage the pupils to play; school councillors who develop policies in school such as the anti-bullying charter and the gardening club who look after the garden. They also do circle time activities that encourage pupils to work together as a team. More pupils now report that they feel happy at school.

3. Active travel to school: Rockmount Primary, Croydon

The school has a well-run incentive scheme that rewards pupils who walk or cycle or scooter into school by giving each child a token. The tokens are collected for each class and at the end of each term they are counted and the winning class get a treat such as a trip. They also run a weekly lunchtime cycle club attended by over 20 pupils. Lots more children walk or cycle to school now and car use/parking outside the school has reduced.

4 Healthy school meals, increase in uptake, dining room environment: Colham Manor Primary, Hillingdon

The dining room and team of dining room assistants are a crucial part of the school and have transformed the school mealtime experience. Uptake of school meals has increased from 26% to 76%. The dining room assistants support pupils with their cooking skills and ensure that all pupils have a drink and eat their food through a reward system that also encourages healthy choices.

5. Healthy Schools and School Improvement: Worcesters Primary School, Enfield

The Head Teacher was brought in because the school was in ‘notice to improve’. Within a year their Ofsted rating had moved to ‘Outstanding’ in all areas. The Head used a range of initiatives around developing the ethos of the schools to focus more on health and wellbeing that included:

• Swing high club for Reception pupils to improve their gross/fine motor skills and improve their handwriting
• Introduced Worcester’s Way behaviour incentive scheme where pupils receive coloured balls for good work/behaviour that they combine with their class
• Breakfast club to improve nutrition and concentration
• Sports coach work on ball skills in lesson and break and lunchtimes
• Play zones at break/lunchtime to encourage more activity in playground
• All pupils have a Plan A and a Plan B for their life goals

6. Healthy volunteering: St Mary’s Catholic Primary, Waltham Forest

The school encourages the pupils to think about others within their school community as well as help those less fortunate than themselves locally and internationally. Examples of this are the drama stars clubs that the older children run to encourage the younger children to get involved in dance, drama and singing; older pupils sitting with younger ones at lunchtime, friendship stops at break and lunchtimes; thinking of way to raise funds for local and international charities including:

• Crochet items for sale to raise money for a local homeless charity with a weekly crochet club
• Customised collection boxes for the Philippines appeal

7. Growing and Forest School: Redlands Primary School, Tower Hamlets

The school has a wild garden that is used by nursery pupils as part of Forest Schools to encourage them to discover different parts to the garden – the pond, plants, birds, creatures. The garden is also used regularly by different classes to bring the curriculum to life eg. Science with frogspawn and frog life cycle. A gardening club maintain the garden with weeding, planting and there are lots of plants and trees throughout the playground with signs created by pupils

8. Independent travel to school and bike maintenance (travel training): Oakwood Secondary School (Special school):

Many of the pupils at this school are brought directly to school from home by mini-bus or taxi and this had been the case for pupils up to age 16 for many years. The Head now works with the independent travel training programme led by Bexley and Bromley Boroughs whereby pupils are supported to become independent travellers to school from home. They start by learning about crossing roads safely and putting this into practice and move on to travelling by bus from their homes. This 6 week programme ends with pupils able to travel independently which gives them confidence, makes them more active and opens up a social world to them with the ability to socialise with friends more independently out of school. This also saves the Borough substantial amounts of money in reduced minibus and taxi fares.

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