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The Healthy Lives Team Staff update contains helpful information and activities for all school teaching staff
This is the SCHOOL STAFF newsletter from The Healthy Lives Team. In each edition we share relevant information, lesson plans and resources, which can be used to support the teaching of health and wellbeing. This goes out to school contacts only.
The HEALTHY LIVES TEAM supports schools, pupils and families with everything to do with health and wellbeing. We want to help you live fitter, healthier and happier lives.
We have a Healthy Lives Team webpage where you can find out more about the team and access Healthy Schools resources and all our archived newsletters.
If you would like further support or details, please contact Kate Smith, Head of Healthy Lives, at kate.smith@towerhamlets.gov.uk.
 SPARK Resilience Programme Offer for Tower Hamlets Schools
Partnership for Children is offering schools and organisations in Tower Hamlets and Hackney their fully-funded programme SPARK Resilience. SPARK Resilience is a school-based social and emotional learning programme for 10 - 12 year olds at the end of primary school or beginning of secondary school. The programme draws on mindfulness, positive psychology and cognitive behavioural therapy to give children skills to boost their strengths, control strong emotions and reframe habitual ways of thinking. Partnership for Children will provide resources, training and support sessions for up to 35 schools and organisations in Tower Hamlets and Hackney to help them build resilience skills in the children and young people they work with.
The next opportunity for online training is on Tuesday 5 July from 15.30 to 17.30. To find out more contact Liz Bowles, Project Manager, Partnership for Children: Liz.Bowles@partnershipforchildren.org.uk.
The Healthy Lives Team can work with you to map out the resource against the Healthy Schools Silver/Gold award criteria too, please email David in the team to express your interest at David.Banks@towerhamlets.gov.uk
Covid-19 Vaccine and Health Literacy Workshop Opportunities for Secondary and Special Schools in Tower Hamlets
Public Health are now taking bookings from secondary schools for the Covid-19 Vaccine and Health Literacy Workshops, which can be delivered within PSHE or Health Education, as the topics now fall within the statutory requirements for health education. They can come into your school and deliver the sessions and it will be chance for pupils and staff to ask any questions they like about Covid-19 and vaccines. The workshops can be either a single or a double lesson, depending on your needs. The workshops are engaging, factual and interactive and are designed to dispel misinformation and teach young people the skills to gather accurate health information.
To find out more and to book a session, please contact Emmanuel Baidoo emmanuel.baidoo@towerhamlets.gov.uk
 Covid-19 Vaccine and Health Literacy workshops for Primary School Parents and Guardians
Public Health are now taking bookings from primary schools for Covid-19 Vaccine and Health Literacy Workshops, created for parents and guardians. They can come into your school and deliver the sessions and it will be chance for parents to ask any questions they like about Covid and vaccines. The workshops are engaging, factual and interactive and are designed to dispel misinformation, will highlight the importance of including children and young people in home health discussions and encourage the sharing of accurate information with immediate friends and family
To find out more and to book a session, please contact Emmanuel Baidoo emmanuel.baidoo@towerhamlets.gov.uk
Self-Care Summer Resources – Primary, Secondary and School Staff
As the summer holidays fast approach, it is worth reflecting that the unstructured aspect of the summer holidays, as well as being away from support networks, can be a struggle for some young people. Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families has produced #SelfCareSummer resource packs for primary and secondary schools. The resources signpost young people and their families to additional support and feature creative activities for managing mental health. Staff mental health and well-being are equally important, therefore a self-care toolkit for school staff is included, consisting of well-being resources and tips.
Save the Date: The Big Mile in Greenwich is back!
When: Saturday 4 September 2022, 14.30
The Healthy Lives Team have exclusive news, directly from London Marathon Events, that The Big Mile in Greenwich is back! The Big Mile is a FREE, fun, family-friendly event that takes place on the same finishing stretch as The Big Half – culminating at the iconic Cutty Sark. Because the route is only a mile long, it’s perfect for first-time runners or walkers and families with children of all ages who want to experience the thrill of a mass participation event over an achievable distance.
Please share this update with your parents and guardians via you website and or newsletter.
More details to be shared soon.
 Free Headspace for Educators
Headspace offers free access to Headspace for educators (teachers and support staff) in the UK. This includes hundreds of guided meditations, sleep sounds and inspiring videos. The mindfulness app has been designed to support teachers and their students through these challenging times.
Their research found that 30 days of meditating with Headspace can lower stress by 32% and 40 days of meditating can increase resilience by 11%.
 Commonwealth Games Resources for Schools
The Commonwealth Games will be hosted this year in Birmingham, commencing 28th July - until 8th August 2022. A series of cross-curricular resources have been produced for schools to teach children about the games, which is underpinned by three inspiring themes:
- Journey to the Games: celebrating and feeling part of the journey to Birmingham 2022.
- Finding Common Ground: connecting with and celebrating the similarities and differences between themselves, other children, young people in their community and around the commonwealth.
- We Can Change Our World: empowering and supporting children and young people to take action to make their community and society a happier and healthier place to live.
Activities within the resources include Commonwealth Games lesson ideas, whole school activities, presentations and films. The Commonwealth Games website says that additional items will be released as they get closer to the game’s start date.
"Here comes the sun, doo - doo - doo - doo"
The Beetles
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The Healthy Lives Team
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We are incredibly proud in Tower Hamlets to have supported schools to gain more Healthy Schools awards than any other borough in London. So please use this newsletter in whatever way suits you best to stay as fit and healthy as possible and please share this newsletter using your social media or website using the following share button, or you can click the hyperlink in the top right corner of this email:
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Take care,
The Healthy Lives team at London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
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