1878 school locations and educational institutions structurally working on a healthy lifestyle

Allocation per scheme

• The Healthy School Support was awarded to 925 school locations: 684 primary schools in primary and specialized education, 176 school locations in secondary and specialized secondary education, and 65 secondary vocational education locations.
• 315 school locations will receive the Healthy Relationships & Sexuality Incentive Scheme in the new school year. Of these, 93 are school locations in primary and specialized education, 160 are in secondary and specialized secondary education, and 62 are in secondary vocational education.
• 46 secondary vocational education school locations will start working with the Healthy and Safe Working Incentive Scheme.
• The Tasty Outdoors Incentive Grant from Young Learning to Eat was awarded to 501 school locations: 402 school locations in primary and specialized education and 80 in secondary and specialized education.

Iris Kummeling, programme manager: “With the Healthy School approach, schools can work structurally and across the entire school on a healthy lifestyle. This increases the likelihood of a lasting effect. The large number of applications once again shows that schools are eager to do this. And it is urgently needed: recent research among young people shows that their health is vulnerable. We are seeing an increase in unhealthy behaviour, including smoking and vaping, and problematic social media use. Young people’s mental health has also not yet recovered from the coronavirus pandemic. Schools can play an important role here by teaching children and young people about, and allowing them to experience, how healthy choices and a healthy lifestyle really do make a difference, both now and in the future.”

Information and inspiration for all schools

Iris calls on schools to continue working on a healthy lifestyle for their pupils and students, even if they do not receive the additional incentive. Iris: “We are also happy to help these schools start or continue working on a healthy lifestyle. To this end, we provide a great deal of information, inspiration and materials on Gezondeschool.nl and gezondeschool.nl/inspiratie. In addition, in the coming school year we will expand our offerings for all schools, including those without a scheme. This will include training and online information sessions. This will enable all schools to further strengthen the health of their pupils and students.”

Source: Healthy School.