Creating Healthy Spaces
Creating Healthy Spaces
RIO has been working with three secondary schools in Cornwall to design and develop Integrated Health Centres on school sites.
The programme, led by young people has involved the design of each Health Centre’s interior space and is now moving on to the development of the actual services the Centres will provide, placing students at the centre of decision making for their own, and their peers’, future wellbeing.
Having Integrated Health Centres in each of these secondary schools will allow the schools to address the health and wellbeing needs of young people, their parents, teachers and the local community.
Students from each school are exploring the barriers to wellbeing for young people and how these can be improved, with young people sitting on the management board of each Centre. These management boards are tasked with finding innovative and creative ways of providing services that will benefit the health and wellbeing of all users.
Similar projects springing off from the Integrated Health Centres work include exploring how a school’s outdoor space can enhance and improve pupils’ wellbeing, how personal, social and health education (PSHE) can be taught differently with year 7 students and how to share what is happening through an IT system.
For more information on Integrated Health Centres contact Katy Luxton on katy.luxton@realideas.org
Inventive thinking
Creative day painting
display from creative day workshop
Colour wheel
Colour workshop
working on ideas
Pods
Pod seating