Hi, and welcome to the EHS Health and Well Being Web Page.

Here you will soon find ideas and information that will help and support a new and improved YOU!

 Let’s accept that the school, any school, has a responsibility for educating the “whole child” - that includes their health and their well-being, both physical and mental. There are different avenues WE can take, but in a secondary school these tend to lead to the Guidance department, the PE department and the Home Economics department. These three curriculum areas would seem to have the most obvious input.

What YOU can do…..

• In PE we have pushed through a real increase in the amount of time spent on fitness, especially as part of designated fitness blocks. These have been “strangely popular/successful”. YOU CAN DO MORE OF THE SAME AT HOME – WALK, RUN, CYCLE, “EVEN” RELAXATION!
• HE –health is well up our list of priorities. Healthy eating and nutrition are covered as distinct units. There has been a conscious shift towards healthier ingredients and dishes. YOU CAN DO MORE OF THE SAME AT HOME – MAKE A CONSCIOUS EFFORT TO EAT MORE HEALTHILY – CHALLENGE YOUR PARENTS/GUARDIANS TO DO THE SAME!
• Canteen/machines – there has been a real push towards healthy food/drink, which is not quite complete! YOU CAN DO MORE OF THE SAME – TRY TO GO FOR THE HEALTHY OPTION – BE AWARE OF WHAT IS IN YOUR FOOD/DRINK.
• The Guidance Department play the major role in looking after the pupils’ mental well-being, through the Social Education courses, and by being available to support pupils as necessary. Register teachers and class teachers can also have an input in this area – YOU CAN DO MORE OF THE SAME – IF YOU ARE HAVING PROBLEMS, SPEAK TO SOEMEONE YOU TRUST – PARENT/GUARDIAN, GUIDANCE TEACHER, ANOTHER TEACHER, SCHOOL NURSE, FRIEND ETC

Here's an account of a recent event which promoted a healthy lifestyle.

NATURAL HIGH

The assembly hall was full of excitement on Tuesday, courtesy of David Graham’s Natural High presentation. David is on a whirlwind tour of the Borders secondary schools this week and we were lucky enough to enjoy his presentation at Tuesday’s S1 assembly. The audience was in full swing, dancing, clapping and singing to the lyrics of David’s own composition, ‘Natural High’. He also had some of the pupils on stage competing in football and dance competitions. The lucky winners received goodies such as the CD of David’s song, radios, personal organisers and sports bags.
	David’s message was loud and clear and he wanted everyone to understand that drug taking only led to fake highs which are short-lived. He tested our knowledge in The Risk Factor game to show us that alcohol was actually the drug which caused the most deaths in a year. Some of the audience were quite shocked by this and it certainly gave them something to think about.
Natural High is all about using our own talents and experiences to get a real buzz and feel happy. In one of the competitions, pupils had to think about the presentation’s message and come up with a catchy slogan. Claire Lowe’s caption was ‘Get the natural high and you will touch the sky; go fake and you will break.’ Jane Ramage entered the competition with ‘Nasty drugs are a killer. A natural high is a thriller.’ The winning caption came from Erin Maguire, whose rhyming slogan said, ‘Thinking of drugs makes me cry, because I don’t want to die. And then I had a natural high and that feeling makes me fly.’ Well done, Erin. The presentation was absolutely brilliant and that was the view of everyone at the assembly. Beth Murray said, ‘I loved it. It was great on stage.’ Ryan Walker added, ‘It got everyone active.’