June 2025 For Schools
Smoking and Vaping prevention programme for Secondary Schools. C
Pol-Ed FREE PSHE resources available to keep children safe in Greater Manchester, funded by GMP and GMVRU. Pol-Ed has been written by PSHE specialist teachers to be delivered by teachers and is quality assured by West Yorkshire Police for legal accuracy. The material fits the requirements of the PSHE and RSHE curriculum and is mapped against the PSHE Association objectives. Pol-Ed offers a range of lessons, assemblies and Pol-Ed Passport lessons all taught live from the Pol-Ed website For more information and to sign up, visit Pol-Ed.
GMMH CAHMS Link Dealing with Anxiety for teens webinar.
This free training course is a fantastic opportunity to access a fully resourced and evidence-based programme aimed at preventing smoking and vaping among young people. It is designed to be engaging, informative, and easy to implement within existing PSHE timetables. The training will cover: •
The research that underpins INTENT
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How INTENT links to PSHE
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The constituent parts of INTENT
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The Personal Plan
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Sources of Information
We’re really pleased to be able to offer this highquality training at no cost to schools and look forward to supporting your team in delivering this important public health message. For more information on visit INTENT. Available training dates, please only register on ONE session •
Wednesday 2nd July 2025 - 3.30pm - 4.30pm After school
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Monday 7th July 2025 - 3.45pm - 4.45pm After school
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Tuesday 8th July – 8am – 9am Morning
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Monday 14th July 2025 - 12pm - 1pm Lunchtime
Healthy Schools Newsletter
FREE Toothbrushes & Toothpaste The government has partnered with Colgate, who will soon be delivering free toothbrushes for 3–5-year-olds and family toothpaste over the next 5 years. If your school would be interested in a supply, to be given to families to take home, please let the healthy schools team know, by emailing healthyschool@wigan.gov.uk Healthy teeth and gums are important to children’s development and learning, with poor oral health holding children back through school absence with tooth ache and in many cases impacting on good speech and language development. Tooth decay is entirely preventable and affects children more so in less affluent areas. The healthy schools team support schools to deliver the evidence based supervised toothbrushing scheme in early years (3-5 years), and the government has awarded Wigan a sum of money to support this and to deliver other oral health interventions which we will be contacting you about soon. Get in touch to support Oral Health by using our online contact form.