Healthy schools some thoughts on our journey'

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• Healthy schools some thoughts on our journey.
• Stewart Plowes and Rachel Beck
• Turton and Edgworth CE/Methodist Primary School
  Blackburn with Darwen

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• Apology - we do not have the answers for your
  school we may not even have the questions!
• Just because it may be part way to working for us
  does not mean the same things apply, you may be
  way beyond, not yet there or on a totally
  different route to where we were.
• Relationships are the key to everything that we
  do our main focus in school.
• Having a PSHE leader who is talented, dedicated,
  passionate about what she does and an incredible
  learner has been ok too!

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• What is primary education for? To what
• needs and purposes should it be chiefly
• directed over the coming decades?
• (Cambridge Primary review)

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• We have placed a lot of emphasis on getting
  feedback from children and parents, and this has
  made some of the delicate processes in sex and
  drug education much easier the opportunity for
  ownership is vital this takes time and hard
  work. There was no short cut.

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• As we all know, statistics can be misleading

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• Reap what you sow
• One of our key contributors has been our
• catering manager and not just in school
• meals. TAs play a huge part in the direction
• that we have taken, so do welfare staff,
• office staff, of course children and parents
• and even occasionally Governors.

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• 2004 - AST, Teacher, Nursery nurse, NQT
• Science, Geography, History, PSHE/Citizenship
• 2006 - AST, Nursery nurse, teacher, teacher,
  teacher, cook
• Science, Geography, History, PSHE/Citizenship,
  Healthy
• Schools
• 2009 - PSHE leader, SENCO, Nursery nurse,
  Catering manager, Teacher, TA,
• Personal, social and emotional development -
  SEN,
• PSHE/Citizenship, Healthy Schools, School Houses

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• some schools and teachers transcend what appear
  to be systemic problems, and are led with the
  dynamism and independence of spirit which gives
  their staff the necessary confidence to break
  free of the culture of dependence and compliance.
• asserting such independence requires both real
  courage and a record of success as conventionally
  defined.

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• AMG the accumulation of marginal gains
• Nobody made a greater mistake than he
• who did nothing because he could only do a
• little - Edmund Burke
• Cambridge Primary Review Wellbeing is
• point 1 of twelve. This cant be co-incidence!