Healthy eatiing is the watchword!

LEW TRENCHARD Primary School is celebrating, after being awarded Healthy School status.

For schools to achieve healthy status, they must be successful in 62 separate criteria.

These include a focus on healthy eating, physical activity, emotional health and well-being. It also focuses on safety, improving the environment, citizenship and safer travel to schools.

The Devon Healthy Schools Award, part of the National Healthy Schools Programme, is jointly funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Department of Health, which says it is about creating healthy and happy children and young people, who do better in learning and in life.

In a statement Lew Trenchard School said it was particularly proud of the high quality of provision it had achieved in providing a caring environment for children, sport and having a strong pupil voice.

The school is looking forward to displaying its Healthy School sign to show the whole community the official recognition it has received for these important aspects of school life.