MENU Selecteer een taal▼ Healthy schools Home Learning Healthy schools Healthy Schools We are extremely proud that Southville was one of the first schools in Bristol to be awarded the Mayor’s Award for Excellence as a health-promoting school. We are committed to encouraging all children to make healthy and active lifestyle choices. Recently, Bristol City Council Healthy Schools have divided the awards programme into individual awards that assess a school’s work in key areas of health. Southville has recently been awarded the Mental Health and Wellbeing Badge and the Food and Nutrition Badge, which recognise our great work in these areas. We promote physical and mental health in school through a number of avenues and activities, including weekly lessons in class for all children, weekly assemblies and curriculum enrichment events such as World Food Week and Harvest Fortnight. Wellbeing Team A number of our staff members sit on our Wellbeing Team, working together to develop our support for children and staff. We sometimes participate in research projects around children’s mental health and wellbeing, which helps us identify key areas of development for our school as well as learn new ways of supporting each other. Healthy Eating We encourage all children to develop healthy eating habits both in school and within their lives outside of school. We believe that forming healthy habits during the primary years sets children up for a lifetime of making good choices. We do this through our in-house school dinners, promoting healthy packed lunches, teaching the children about the balanced plate and running a health tuckshop. Please see our policies page for our Food Policy, which provides more detail. Tuck Shop Our year 6 keep us healthy by running a daily healthy tuck shop for KS2. The children run this young enterprise scheme, buying the bread from the deli and doing the accounts each week. Here are the kinds of things you’ll find sold at our tuck shop during morning break, all of which cost either 10p or 20p: Fruit and vegetables Pitta bread Bread sticks, rice cakes or crackers Raisins Frubes Malt loaf Cheese On Thursdays, slices of baguette from a local deli Every care is taken to ensure that all products are nut and sesame free. Gardening Clubs We run gardening clubs at both our Merrywood and Myrtle sites, growing herbs and vegetables from seed to fork. More information about these enrichment activities are provided to parents annually during the growing season so you can find out when your child can get involved. Physical Education As well as twice-weekly PE lessons, we also participate in a number of enrichment activities that provide the children with additional ways of getting more exercise through competitive and non-competitive sports. We work with the Bristol Sport Foundation to provide specialist coaching in identified sports for all children from years 1—6. Each year, we choose between four and six sports to train the children in so that over time they develop skills and interests across a wide range of activities. We also work with Ashton Park School Sports Partnership to get involved in events and competitions with other primary schools in south Bristol. These are sometimes competitive, such as basketball competitions and swimming galas, and sometimes non-competitive, such as dance shows. Bikeability Training Each year, children in KS2 are given the opportunity to improve their cycling skills and develop road safety awareness through bikeability training. We offer level 1 and level 2 training. Level 1 aims to develop mastery in cycle handling in an off-road environment and prepare children for riding on the road. Level 2 training aims to develop children’s skills and confidence for cycling on single-lane roads, fully supervised by the adults who are training them. Also in this section Curriculum guide How to help your child at home Enriching the curriculum Healthy schools Merrywood Road, Bristol, BS3 1EB Tel: 0117 377 2671 Email: merrywood.southvillep@bristol-schools.uk Myrtle Street, Bristol, BS3 1JG Tel: 0117 353 4444 Email: myrtle.southvillep@bristol-schools.uk Shine After School Club Pupil Asset © Southville Primary 2021 Setsquare School Websites