Double award for Angmering’s anti-smoking and fitness campaigns

And now the school’s efforts to increase awareness of the impact smoking has on health has earned it an Enhanced Healthy Schools Award, together with a second award at the same level for highlighting the benefits of physical activity.

Forty year-eight students were trained for the anti-smoking scheme, giving them skills and information to advise classmates on why they shouldn’t start smoking and how to get support and help to quit, if they needed it.

The second award, under the programme run by West Sussex County Council’s public health team, recognising schools’ work to improve the health and well-being of students, was for Tina Goodman, subject leader for health at the school, said: “The students’ training is a vital part of a larger health programme to support young people to have healthy lifestyles. Influencing peer pressure is an important tool in improving young people’s health.”

Angmering’s setting up of a partnership with primary schools in the area, to encourage more pupils to take part in exercise through a series of fun sports competitions, was rewarded with the second accolade.

Pete Gwynn, PE locality liaison leader, said: “It was excellent that all our family schools fully embraced getting their children involved in competitive sport on a regular basis.

“All children have had the opportunity to participate in a ‘skills triathlon’, which operated at an intra-school and inter-school level and harnessed the values and spirit of the Olympics.

“We have managed to maintain the huge levels of participation since the games finished via our triathlons and the full sporting calendars that are offered in schools and between schools.”