Our annual Healthy Schools London Celebration Event took place on Friday 24 June 2016 in The Chamber at City Hall. 250 delegates attended including more than 100 schools who were collecting their Silver and Gold Awards.

The event was chaired by Dr Helen Jenner, Corporate Director for Children’s Service, LB Barking & Dagenham. Helen welcomed a number of speakers including Duncan Selbie, Chief Executive, Public Health England, Dr Harry Rutter, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Dr Lorraine Cale, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Dr Michael Nelson, Public Health Nutrition Research Ltd and Karen Jaeggi, Executive Headteacher, Worcesters Primary School.

Schools that shared their stories at the event were Beit Shvidler Primary School, LB Barnet, Holy Trinity C of E Primary School, LB Haringey, Scargill Infant School, LB Havering and Ravenor Primary School, LB Ealing.

The event began with the Highfield Junior School Choir from LB Bromley who sang beautifully. They sang the songs from the Get healthy, get singing! Sing up resource. This is available to download for free from  www.singup.org/healthy-schools 

An agenda of the day can be downloaded here

The following presentations featured on the day:

• Dr. Lorraine Cale: Monitoring and evaluation: Physical Activity

• Dr Michael Nelson: Eat Like a Champ: Impact on food and drink consumption of Year 5 pupils

• Karen Jaeggi: School Self Evaluation

• Holy Trinity C of E Primary School, LB Haringey: Healthy Schools London Gold Award

• Scargill Infant School, LB Havering: Healthy Schools London Gold Award

• Beit Shvidler Primary School: Healthy Schools London Gold Award