Self Evaluation
It is essential that the whole school is involved in the self evaluation process. By highlighting your strengths and developments, self evaluation will give you a clear picture of "where you are" in terms of health promotion. From here, you will be able to make important decisions as to how to proceed with health promotion including your accreditation.

As with the awareness-raising process, schools must evidence feedback from the whole school:
  • Staff (management, teaching and non teaching, support services)
  • Pupils
  • Parents
The whole school self evaluation process is a vital component of the accreditation. However, it can often be a time consuming activity. In order to support you with this aspect of your health promotion work please refer to the Health Promotion Toolkit. (The Toolkit is a selection of evaluation tools developed in association with the pilot schools to collect information from a broad range of audiences).

The consultation should be evidenced in the form of a summary report (see submission portfolio section). The information collected will give a direct route to the "card game" component of the accreditation scheme where you will be selecting and working on individual health promotion topics. It will highlight your strengths, which you could later select to be accredited for. It may also flag up areas of your school that require improvement, which you may wish to develop though the scheme/make reference to in your development plan or standards and quality report.

The consultation should be evidenced in the form of a summary report (see submission portfolio section).