What the Essential Award is and how your school can achieve it.
The Essential Award is a whole-school health and wellbeing award.
It helps schools assess the key foundations they should have in place to support pupils’ health and wellbeing across three core areas:
- mental health and wellbeing
- food and the school food environment
- physical activity
Using the Essential Award criteria, your school can:
- recognise what they are already doing well
- identify gaps in your current provision
- bring together relevant policies, practice and evidence
- agree realistic priorities for improvement
- develop a more coordinated whole-school approach
- monitor and celebrate progress
How we support you
You'll recieve guidance, resources and support from the Bristol Healthy School team whilst working through the award framework.
What you'll get
When your school achieves the Essential Award we'll:
- send you a certificate
- send you digital logos that you can add to your website or letterheads
- add you to our Healthy Schools website, so your local community and other schools can learn about the work your staff and pupils did to earn the awards
You can also work towards specialist awards.
How to start the essential award
Get in touch to talk to us about getting your school involved with the Healthy Schools award scheme.