Tips
- Think about the four areas of Comprehensive School Health and how your planned Healthy Schools activities/initiatives connect to: Teaching & Learning, Physical & Social Environment, Policy, and Partnerships & Services.
- Utilize your whole Healthy Schools Team! Have students lead activities, with adult support, where appropriate. Engage all members of your team and share tasks, responsibilities, and leadership opportunities.
- Document the Healthy Schools activities that took place during your journey to include in your Journey Summary Report. Include an activity name/title and a brief description of what the activity was and what health priority/priorities the activity supported!
- Consider connecting the Healthy Schools Recognition Program and your planned activities/initiatives to your School Improvement Plan.
Prompts
- Does this activity/initiative connect to expectations from the curriculum?
- Does this activity/initiative support the social relationship between school community members (students, staff, parent(s)/caregiver(s), community partners, Elder/Knowledge Keepers) or enhance our school’s physical environment?
- Does this activity support or connect to school/board policies and/or guidelines (e.g., provincial/territorial policies, board policies, school-level policies)?
- Does this activity use or build relationships with partners in our community?
Support Tools
Use the Activity Action Planning Tool to help guide your team to make your goals into achievable actions by creating detailed plans that outline activity/initiative ideas, specific tasks, deadlines, and responsibilities of individuals. This plan can be used to document your team's Action Plan in Step 3: Develop Your Plan and Take Action.
The Sample Step 3 Journal Responses provide sample answers to the journal questions in Step 3: Develop Your Plan and Take Action. Your team can use these as a reference to understand how to answer the journal questions, or get ideas for what a Healthy Schools journey might look like at this step.
This Sample Journey Summary Report is an example of how your journal responses for the 4 Steps will be summarized and visually displayed once completed. This sample provides your team with a preview of what the final Journey Summary Report can look like.