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The next module that the Infant Department will be completing in order to be awarded the Herts. Quality Standards will focus on Being Healthy.  For children to develop and grow they need a healthy lifestyle.  The module suggests that parents should be;

  • confident that their children’s well being and health are being provided for
  • consulted on menu choices
  • given opportunities to work with staff to meet their children’s health needs.
  • given information about promoting a healthy lifestyle.

The Infant department should;

  • provide a healthy lifestyle for the children
  • provide healthy meals and snacks
  • ensure children have access to play in the fresh air
  • encourage children to participate in a range of physical activities
  • be trained in first aid
  • maintain high standards of hygiene
  • help children learn about a healthy lifestyle through their play

and the children should;

  • enjoy a healthy lifestyle
  • have plenty of opportunity to play outside
  • be physically active
  • eat a wide range of healthy foods
  • begin to understand how their bodies work and how to keep healthy
  • practice the basics of good hygiene
  • be able to express their feelings
  • have their feelings acknowledged by caring staff

 

Any comments about the following points will be gratefully received.

 

How does Woolgrove meet your child’s emotional needs?

How is your child made aware of a healthy lifestyle?

What information are you given about healthy lifestyles?

How does Woolgrove support children’s well being?

Are there any areas of being healthy you would like to see improved?

 

Thank you for your support in helping us to make the Infant Department the best it can be and to achieve the HQS.

 

Vicky Litchfield.

Head of Infant and Year 3 Dept.

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One Response to “Being Healthy”

  1. admin Says:
    June 23rd, 2010 at 9:34 am

    Thank you to all parents who reposnded, the follwoing comments were made;
    Explain how the setting meets your child’s emotional needs?
     Children learn about feelings and learn how to express them.
     The staff listen to the children and understand my child.

    Are parents given information about healthy lifestyles?
     Menus
     Snacks that are offered.
     What to put in a healthy lunchbox.

    How is your child made aware of a healthy lifestyle?
     Lots of different opportunities, swimming, horse riding, trampolining, P.E with a specialist teacher.
     Provided with healthy snacks.

    How does the setting support children’s wellbeing?
     Parents expressed they are very pleased in the way the school focuses on being healthy and healthy eating.

    Can you identify any areas for possible development?
     Some parents were unsure if they had been provided with information about healthy lifestyles and about how hygiene is taught.

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