THE QATAR SHIRBURNIAN
SHERBORNE SENIOR SCHOOL
Health Champions At Sherborne we believe that our pupils are the “leaders of tomorrow” and also in looking after the physical, social and emotional health of our whole school community. Health Champions is a new iniatitive started this year, which support and promotes both aims. Targeted at Year 7, Year 8, Year 9 and Year 10, each Form has a nominated a Health Champion who act as role models, and help deliver brief presentations to their tutor groups on prominent health matters. The Health Champions have been mentored by pupils from Medical Club, who have created a series of short PowerPoint presentations on topics like sleep, screentime, nutrition and hydration, dental health and exercise.
How it works The Medical Club Leads train the Health Champions in how to deliver the presentations. The Health Champions then lead a session in a Form-Time at the start of a week, with the purpose of stimulating discussion around the given topic. To help pupils evaluate and reflect on the topic further, each pupil is asked to keep a diary relating to that topic for the week, with a view to consulting with parents in order to change routines or habits if necessary. Special mention goes to Shahad Al Shaheen Year 12, Lina Dossa Year 11 and Raima Naweed Year 12 who have led on the training and creating the powerpoint slides. Quote from Rameen Arefen, Health Champion, Year 9: “Since COVID-19, many of us have put our mental and physical health on hold, which has resulted in us feeling more stressed and tired than usual. The Health Champions program is an initiative aimed to help students improve their health and raise awareness about important matters relating to our well-being. Through presentations and activities, the Health champions educate students in their classes on a variety of topics, from oral hygiene to the importance of sleep schedules to help them be more active and fit, as well as health aware. They are important ambassadors and a crucial part in the school’s goals to create a healthy, safe and nurturing community.” The importance of this role is reinforced by Lucca Hanna, Year 7: “As a Health Champion, I promote a healthy lifestyle to pupils and teachers by motivating them to take part in more physical activity and adopting good eating habits. This project has been greatly successful in raising awareness of how physical and mental health are interlinked and their importance for one’s well-being. During my time as health champion, I have delivered several speeches with topics ranging from personal hygiene, active lifestyle, mental strength to facts about the human body.”
“...a well-planned and flexible curriculum that is designed to meet the varying needs of the pupils.” BSO Report, April 2022
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