Health-Promoting Primary School
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Health-Promoting Primary Schools aim to support schools in working systematically on health promotion. This includes creating a school environment that promotes pupils' and staff's mental, physical, and social health and well-being in cooperation with families and the local community. The schools develop a comprehensive and well-organized health policy examining the entire school community.
Participation provides
Access to the online system heilsueflandi.is, where each primary school manages the school's health promotion activities
Guidelines on the process and the use of heilsueflandi.is
Access to lectures and educational material
A poster to hang in the primary school
Support by phone and e-mail
To see and show the good things they are doing!
What is a Health-Promoting Primary School?
Health-promoting primary school is not a project with a beginning and an end but an approach that will be useful in future work. Each primary school works at its own pace, and the school is expected to take up to a year to prepare.
Handbook on Health-Promoting Primary Schools. Published 2013. (Icelandic)
Preparation
The preparatory work includes
forming a steering committee
checking the status of the primary school
drafting a health policy
filling in a checklist on a website that participating primary schools have access to. Each school can evaluate its status and track targeted health promotion activities.
Cost
Participation is free of charge, and no preparatory work is required before applying.
Application process
Applying implies that the primary school has committed to working systematically on health promotion and that the school administrators confirm this by signing the application. After the application is received, the primary school will get access to the website heilsueflandi.is as well as other information to help them start their work.
Please don't hesitate to contact hgs@landlaeknir.is for more information.
More about Health-Promoting Primary Schools
Health-promoting Primary Schools are the product of developmental work carried out in collaboration with numerous stakeholders. Materials from Schools for Health in Europe were used when designing Health-Promoting Primary Schools. Egilsstaðaskóli was a leading school in that work.
The Ministry of Education and Culture and the Ministry of Welfare have supported the development of Health-Promoting Primary Schools. Furthermore, the Icelandic Association of Local Authorities, Home and School, the primary health care, universities, the Directorate of Education, and the School and Leisure Department of Reykjavík are representatives in the Council of Health-Promoting Primary Schools.
Service provider
Directorate of Health