Healthy schools London: event report

摘要

THE LONDON HEALTHY SCHOOLS celebration event, which took place on 4 June started with all the delegates engaging in a'mindfulness'session; which was led by an art therapist, so we knew that this event wasn't going to be a standard trawl across healthy eating days and tackling bullying, although both of those were covered. The great and the good were there as well as representatives (staff and children) from more than 80 schools.Dawn Taylor from the Department of Education (DfE) talked with knowledge and feeling about the importance of pupil's emotional health and wellbeing in school, and referred to the fact that around 18 per cent of pupils with mental health problems will not achieve academically. She proposed teaching about mental health to reduce stigma, school-based counselling and linking to the voluntary sector.