"Schools that achieve the NQA are implementing wellbeing initiatives at the very highest level.
 
Wood Memorial School is a truly health promoting school. It was exciting to observe at the achievement visit this manifest itself, with the involvement of every member of the school community: pupils, parents, staff, governors, families and wider involvement of the locality and outside agencies.
 
There is a wonderful whole school, caring and supportive ethos…it has a real family feel with older pupils supporting younger ones. 
 
The school co-ordinator used to work with the Flintshire Healthy Schools Scheme and has brought this expertise and enthusiasm into his role in the school. The Headteacher is very supportive of the aims of a healthy school, as it is clear that her passion is to support the health and wellbeing of pupils, their families and to provide a health promoting workplace for all members of staff. In turn, the staff have enthusiastically taken on their role as role models to support the health and wellbeing of all. 
 
It is very clear that pupils take an active role in all aspects of school life and fulfil their role with great confidence and enthusiasm. Head boys and girls, school council, sports leaders, junior leaders, e-cadets and the eco-committee all have an important leadership role in school. Woody Family Group and parent forums provide the means to ensure parents and carers can influence practice in school too. Having two enthusiastic and skilled members of the governing body with a health and wellbeing/health and safety brief ensures a proactive involvement in the leadership of this area in school. 
 
Structures have been established that allow the views of all to be gauged: school and class councils, the confidence of pupils throughout the school to know that their individual voices will be heard, Woody Family group, supportive and interested governors and hardworking and passionate staff. All have a vested interest in ensuring that the importance of health and wellbeing is embraced by all. With this in place health promoting initiatives thrive.
 
The very skilful Family Liaison Officer provides a friendly and approachable link, not only to all aspects of school life but also to agencies beyond the school, which can provide broader support if needed. The family group that we had the privilege to observe seemed not only to provide support for parents/carers, but also a very effective forum to ensure their voices are heard and fed into school life.
 
The overriding highlight was to see the way in which all members of the community fully embrace the healthy schools approach, to make it such a clear whole school approach. In all action areas this meant there was some excellent practice.
 
Specific highlights include the exceptional whole school approach to the support of the emotional wellbeing of the school community, which provides the structure to daily life within Wood Memorial. This supports all pupils including, but certainly not exclusively, those with particular needs. 
The strength of the approach to positive relationships and emotional health provides the firm foundations to feed into the SRE in school. The other building block of school life, which relates to the safeguarding of the pupils, provides another. Linked to this has been developed a strong spiral curriculum, through the foundation phase and key stage 2.  
 
The many opportunities the pupils have to be active is an outstanding feature in the school.