Schools

Sugar Smart

Join the Enfield schools who are already taking steps to help students reduce their sugar intake.

There are many ways to become Sugar Smart. Choose 3 pledges from the menu of actions below or add your own pledges:

Once a week, introduce a dessert containing 100% fruit
Make drinking water available in dining areas and throughout the day
No sugary drinks allowed in packed lunches
Promote the uptake of school meals
Ensure that all meals served in school meet school food standards
Ensure that food at classroom parties and functions is not high in sugar
Encourage staff to model healthy eating
Conduct low sugar recipe demonstrations to encourage better choices
Teach children where food comes from and grow produce together
Produce a sugar smart recipe book for parents
Use student council meetings or PSHE classes to debate sugar issues
Set a challenge, such as giving up sugary drinks for a whole week
Run competitions for healthy eating within the school
Include nutritional workshops in the core PE lesson programme
Run a Sugar Smart assembly using video and information resources
Make viral content such as videos to share on social media channels
Run a quiz with facts about sugar in everyday food and drink

School resources

Posters for display around your school or near a vending machine:

Classroom resources

Lesson plans

Lesson plan - Sugar (PDF, 332.73 KB)
Lesson plan Y1- Honey
Lesson plan Y2- Food sources (PDF, 909.69 KB)

Class activities and exercises

Recipes

School-based health services

School nurses work with the Local Authority schools and with children and young people in academy and free schools where a child is subject to a safeguarding or child in need plan, or if they are a looked after child. The nurse’s aim is to keep children healthy and enable them to reach their full potential.

School nurses are qualified nurses who work in partnership with schools and Public Health providing health promotion advice that may affect the health or development of school aged children. The school nurse can advise or will know where help can be sought on many health matters, including sex and relationships, drugs, bullying and obesity issues.

School nurses accept self-referrals from children or their families as well as referrals from school staff, social services, looked after children nurse specialists, child protection nurses, medical colleagues, and health visitors.

To contact the School Nursing Service, call 020 3988 7300 or email northmid.cedarsn@nhs.net.

For more information on Enfield’s School Nursing Service, visit North Middlesex University Hospital.

National vaccination programme

Your child will be offered the following immunisations in school:

Reception age to year 5: Fleunz, to reduce flu rates - this is a nasal spray not an injection
Girls in year 8: HPV to reduce cervical cancer rates - this is an injection into the upper arm and there will be 2 injections approximately 6 to 12 months part
Year 9: Meningitis ACWY, to reduce incidents of 4 strains of meningitis and Revaxis to reduce incidents of diphtheria, tetanus and polio - children will receive 2 injections, 1 injection in each arm during the same appointment

Parents will be contacted about immunisations through their child’s school. Children of all ages are asked for signed parental consent but in secondary school pupils can give their own consent, if assessed as capable. This means that if a parent refuses the vaccination may still be given if their child consents and understands the issues in what the procedure involves. If parents consent on behalf of your child and the child refuses the vaccination, it will not be given.

For more information or any enquiries, email beh-tr.enfieldimmunisationteam@nhs.net or call 020 8702 4829 / 020 8702 3700. Service open hours - Monday to Friday, 9am to 2pm.

Oral health

Whittington Health Dental Services works across Enfield to promote good dental health. They provide many schools, including special needs schools, in Enfield with Fluoride Varnishing. The Fluoride Varnishing Programme involves visiting schools twice a year to put fluoride varnish on nursery, reception and year 1 children. They also visit children centre sites across the borough to speak with parents about oral health, give free brushing packs and can signpost parents to local dentists.