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School health promotion
School health promotion could be defined as any activity undertaken to improve and/or protect the health of the whole school community. This factsheet summs up how to achieve the universal establishment of health promoting schools successfully.
Self-Evaluation Dynamic Model
This reflection model describes five steps in a self-evaluation process. It's a dynamic model that allows participants to learn from their experience and accordingly adjust plans and activities as they go along.
Cross-cultural collaboration
In cross-cultural collaboration, children are encouraged to think both locally and globally. This tool gives examples of how schools in different countries can use one another in different stages of a health project. And it gives tips and advices to ensure effective web-based communication between pupils.
School-community collaboration
This tool points out potential partners from the community and it explains benefits and outcomes for schools and community from collaboration.
Tips and advice for children’s participation
This list points out some of the essential priciples to ensure meaningful participation. It's a starting point to promote thoughtful consideration, discussion and development of conditions. A good practice example is enclosed as inspiration.
Tips and advice for involvement
This list gives tips and advice about how to involve children in health promotion, how to increase dialogue and ensure results, how to use a variety of expression methods to let all children benefit.
Body movement
This model shows how a broad perspective on physical activity allows for reflection and discussion with children about different perspectives concerning physical activities in many areas of everyday life.
Pupils brainstorming about food
An overview of the brainstorming process with the example of the subject: food and nutrition.
The four dimensions of food
This model shows how a more complex approach to food and nutrition can be used to increase children's participation.
The Concept of Health
This tool shows how different ways of defining health gives different possibilities for health a promotion policy and for healthy promotion activities for children. The tool is illustrated with children's examples.