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The Highland Council 5-14 Health
programme has been drawn up by a number of colleagues from various schools
across the authority. The programme follows a common format that will be
used for the development of all 5-14 programmes.
For consistency across the
authority, it is expected that schools will use the new 5-14 Health
programme within their schools or have an equivalent programme that meets
the 5-14 attainment targets.
Schools should decide on the best
way to use the programme and can customise it to suit their own
circumstances.
The programme has been designed to
make it as flexible as possible for use within the varying circumstances
in Highland schools.
There are also overviews of the 4
main components of the Health programme – Sexual Health and
Relationships, Nutrition, Drugs and Safety. These may be helpful for small
schools if they are teaching a themed approach across a number of stages.
The programme can be downloaded by
strand ie. emotional or social or physical or by 5-14 levels.
The programme has been developed so
that it can be used as a medium term forward plan. The 5-14 targets for
each strand at levels A-E have been broken down into more specific targets
for learning and teaching purposes. It is not proposed that
individual pupils will be assessed on each criterion.
In most cases there would be no
requirement for comments to be written about average pupils who have
attained the criteria.
The section for ‘next steps for
learning and teaching’ could include:
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Comments on further work to be
undertaken
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Comments on pupils/groups who
have not met/overtaken the assessment criteria
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Comments on how teachers may
adapt teaching and learning tasks in the future
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Comments on areas to be
reviewed/reassessed
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Comments on pace of learning
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Comments on other agency
involvement
The programme has a number of
activities that can be undertaken but teachers are not expected to
undertake every one that is listed. However teachers are expected to cover
all the main 5-14 targets.
It is suggested that teachers
highlight the assessment criteria, activities, assessment evidence and
resources they will undertake, either electronically or on paper.
Suggested resources have been
included and wherever possible the sources for the resources have been
identified. These are mainly resources that schools will already have but
schools can amend to suit their own health resources. Schools may wish to
record further details of the activities in their daily/weekly plans e.g.
the specific resource, whether class/group/individual activity etc.
The majority of the activities
within ‘emotional’ health have been allocated to ‘Circle Time’.
The activities have an overlap with Personal and Social Development and
Citizenship.
When undertaking the sensitive area
of Relationships and Sexual Health schools should adhere to the advise
given in ‘The Highland Council Education Service Sexual Health
Guidelines’ and ‘Consulting Parent/Carers about Relationships and
Sexual Health Programmes' ’policies.
There are opportunities for ICT to
be undertaken in the Health programme particularly in:
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Collecting and analysing e.g.
about health services in the local area
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Searching and researching e.g.
data on healthy eating
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Creating and presenting e.g.
reports on smoking.
Individual schools will need to
agree on how much time is allocated to Health Education. Elements of
Health cross-over into Personal and Social Development and Religious and
Moral Education but on average a maximum of 1 hour per week should be
allocated to the Health element. This could be blocked over a term.
Schools should make reference to
the 5-14 Health guidelines for further advice.
It is anticipated that the
programme will provide support for Head Teachers and Class Teachers in the
delivery of the 5-14 Health guidelines.
There is reference to Health
Promoting Schools within the programme but schools should additionally
take account of initiatives that will lead them to being awarded Health
Promoting School Status by 2005. |