A collaborative approach to whole school health and wellbeing.
The Healthy Schools programme is a framework based around a whole school approach to physical, social and emotional health and wellbeing. This programme supports you as a school to systematically develop and improve health outcomes and embed them into the culture of your school.
We enlisted pupils from Holy Family Catholic Academy and Leigh St Peter’s CEO Primary School to find out more at our most recent Healthy Schools celebration event.
Watch the video below to see how they got on and learn more about what Wigan Healthy Schools is all about.
Primary and secondary schools
Our commitment to primary and secondary schools is to:
- Promote healthy school activities that directly improve the health and wellbeing of school communities
- Provide resources and opportunities that reduce health inequalities
- Support frameworks that provide strong school cultures and healthier choices
- Celebrate positive actions and identify next steps in provision.
Has your school had your Annual Conversation to create your individual health profile?
Further education
- Please contact us for further information about our support for further education settings.
Wigan Healthy School Celebration Event
Our annual Wigan Healthy Schools Celebration event is an opportunity to spotlight and reflect on all the fantastic work being done in our schools to support the health and wellbeing of children and young people. It is a chance to come together, share your insights and learnings and hear from the children themselves about the positive impact that's being made in our communities.
Our next Wigan Healthy Schools celebration event will be in October 2026. Look out for details closer to the time.
School Nursing
The School Nurse Service supports children and young people (5-19 years) who attend a Wigan Borough school or live in Wigan Borough and are educated at home.
CAHMS School Link Team
The School Link Team aims to prevent mental health difficulties developing for children and young people. Our school link practitioners support schools and educational staff in the borough to develop knowledge, skills and confidence in identifying and supporting mental health issues in schools.
Our aim is to reduce stigma, develop whole school approaches to mental health, support early identification of mental health symptoms and raise awareness of self-help support and self-management strategies.
Our children and young people wellbeing practitioners (CYWPs) provide assessment and brief intervention (6 – 8 sessions) to young people experiencing low level and emerging mental health symptoms.
These may include:
- Anxiety
- Worry
- Stress
- Exam stress
- Low mood/self-esteem
- Low confidence.
Our CYWPs offer a range of low intensity interventions that are based on cognitive behavioural therapy and guided self-help. They aim to help young people and their parents/ carers in the self-management of their recovery.