The Healthy Lives Team
The Healthy Lives Team works with all school staff, pupils, parents, and governors. We aim to support, encourage and enable children’s health and wellbeing.
What do we offer help with?
- Healthy eating
- Oral health
- Physical activity
- Mental health and resilience
- Personal social health education.
The Healthy Lives Team ensures an extensive programme of advice and support for schools is planned, delivered and evaluated. We support schools to improve the mental and physical health of pupils, parents and school staff, reducing health inequalities across the borough. We also ensure schools focus on safeguarding and seek to protect young people from risk taking behaviours.
The Healthy Lives Team also support schools to achieve Bronze, Silver and Gold Healthy Schools Awards from the Mayor of London, and maintains the highest number of awards across London.
We produce monthly Healthy Lives Updates with a Schools edition and a Families edition, which include links to activities and resources that promote healthy living and are relevant to teachers and parents.
Please contact Kate Smith, Head of Healthy Lives, at kate.smith@towerhamlets.gov.uk if you would like further support or more information.
You can find more resources on the Tower Hamlets Education Partnerhsip website.
Who do we work with?
- The council’s Public Health team
- Public Health England
- Department for Education
- Greater London Assembly
- Tower Hamlets Education Partnership
- National Children's Bureau
- The Daily Mile Foundation
- London Marathon Events
- Queen Mary University London
- London Metropolitan University.
Healthy Schools in Tower Hamlets
See how we give vital support to schools, pupils and parents. We work with them all to tackle and reduce obesity and other health inequalities.
We also support mental health and the development of emotional resilience.
Physical activity
The Daily Mile
We have supported over 60% of Tower Hamlets schools to start The Daily Mile and other physical activity interventions, including Active Movement to reduce sedentary behaviour, and introducing more playground activities.
More resources on physical activity.
Healthy eating
Fantastic Food in Schools
Fantastic Food in Schools is a dedicated council-led programme between The Healthy Lives Team, Public Health and Contract Catering Services. It supports all primary schools in Tower Hamlets to provide healthy food throughout the school day and create a healthy whole school food environment.
More resources on healthy eating.
The Healthy Lives newsletters
The team send out a monthly newsletter for families and another one for school staff. These go out to all schools in the borough and provide easy access to health advice and information.
If you or anyone you know would like to sign up to this newsletter, please send them the link below.
You will need to close the initial pop-up subscription box and complete the one on the main webpage. You will then need to choose 'Children and Education' as your preferred topic.
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