ROYDS Hall High School has been awarded the Kirklees Healthy School Standard Gold award.
Suzy Rhodes, the Primary Care Trust’s Healthy Schools Co-ordinator, said that Royds Hall High School has an active school council which helps get the message across and that it has carried out improvements to school lunches.
Another benefit they have is a gym kitted out with exercise machines.
“These encourage participation by children who don’t like team sports,” she said. “And the school also lets some community groups use their gym facilities.
“All staff and students at Royds Hall High School have been involved in achieving the award which has seen lots of very impressive developments both in and around school.
“The assessors who visited the school said that it was one of the best schools they had seen for the positive atmosphere among students and staff, the excellent learning environment and the way that everybody supported each other to be happy and healthy in their work.”
Lynne Hall-Bentley, assistant director of the Primary Care Trust, was the special guest who spent the morning at the school hearing from staff and students before presenting the award.
The Kirklees Healthy School Standard is part of a national programme which aims to help schools become healthier.
It is based on evidence that healthier children perform better academically, and that education plays an important role in promoting health, particularly among those who are socially and economically disadvantaged.
The gold award presented to Royds Hall High expands on the National Healthy School Programme.
It promotes healthy eating, PE and physical activity and working with the community.
