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27 Nov - 6 Dec 2018 Issue 750
Nuffield: get wellbeing into schools Creating a role for a 'head of wellness' at schools would get students and staff more physically active – and make a positive difference to their emotional and physical wellbeing. That is the finding of new research by Nuffield Health, which suggests that having a dedicated member of staff assigned to teach children about health and wellbeing showed "significant" changes in emotional wellbeing. The Improving wellbeing in schools report was based on a two-year pilot that installed a head of wellbeing within a secondary school. By the end of the
■■'Heads of wellness' could result in increased
pilot last year, the mean score for staff
physical activity among students and staff
wellbeing had increased by 12 per cent (using the Warwick-Edinburgh
staff using gym facilities, with almost a
Mental Wellbeing Scale, WEMWBS).
quarter signing up for regular activities.
In terms of exercise and activity, the
“There is a gap in the provision of
presence of a dedicated member of staff
wellbeing support in schools that urgently
offered a mixture of both new opportunities
needs addressing," said Davina Deniszczyc,
and a better understanding of their
Nuffield Health's medical director.
bodies – giving students the impetus
"Our pilot showed that a dedicated
to exercise more regularly. There was
expert, embedded into a school, can
also a marked increase in the number of
achieve significant change over time. "
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