Addressing the health and wellbeing of young people
Councillor Gill Mercer, North Northamptonshire Council’s Executive Member for Adults, Health and Wellbeing said:
“The Healthy Schools Awards programme is designed to address the health and wellbeing of young people, using a whole school or college approach to active lives, healthy food, emotional health and wellbeing, as well as personal, social and health education.
“I know that Tresham College already had an ethos of promoting healthy lifestyle choices for their students, and staff involved have worked hard on increasing this. That commitment and hard work is recognised in these Healthy Schools Bronze Awards for each of their campuses.
“I am delighted that Tresham College has become the first of our North Northamptonshire Colleges to achieve the Bronze Healthy Schools Award and hope that this inspires others to aspire to do the same.”
Helping each individual thrive
Robin Webber-Jones, Principal of Tresham College said:
“We are very proud that we are the first further education provider to get this award. We worked alongside the Healthy Schools team in Northamptonshire to adapt the assessment process to make it more applicable to further education establishments. For example we can’t check what our students have in their lunchboxes, we need to influence and educate our young adults to make healthier choices for themselves. The response from students and staff has been extremely positive and next up we are going for silver.”
Camille Hulett, Learner Mentor at Tresham College added:
“There has been a huge amount of work put into this by the team at Tresham College. It has taken a year to complete the assessment and has undoubtedly made a difference to our students and staff. Their health and wellbeing is the most important thing to us and will help each individual thrive in their education and their lives outside of the college.”
