Healthy Schools Consultancy
Promoting healthy lifestyle in schools can improve academic performance and student behaviour.
Having a healthy diet and being physically active are essential for good health – but healthy lifestyle habits also lead to improvements in behaviour and academic performance.
We have worked in Irish schools since 2004, and have helped to promote healthy eating and physical activity in over 30 schools. Initiatives we have started include:
- School fruit micro-businesses
- School fruit breaks
- Provision of alternative physical activity
- Various healthy school food projects, including the Healthy School Cafe
We provide a schools consultancy service that assists schools to progress towards health-promoting school status. The service involves:
- School assessment: how do the school environment, policies and culture contribute to healthy eating and physical activity?
- Student assessment: identification of specific lifestyle issues relevant to the participating school
- Specific school goal setting: development of a phased implementation plan to drive positive change, based on the initial assessment
- Implementation: RedBranch provide resources allowing the school to implement projects promoting healthy lifestyle within the school environment
RedBranch work extensively to promote healthy food in schools, and we provide a separate healthy school food consultancy service to food businesses & school canteens.
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