A south Pembrokeshire Primary School has become the first primary in Wales to have won a top Healthy Schools Award.
Pembroke Dock Community School has been awarded the Welsh Network for Healthy Schools National Quality Award.
A celebration of its achievement was recently held in the school when a large number of guests attended a pupil-led assembly highlighting the ways in which pupils have improved their health, environment and become better global citizens.
The award will be officially presented to the school at the Urdd Eisteddfod in Aberaeron in June.
The school began its work with Healthy Schools in 1999 and has worked tirelessly, for 11 years, to improve the health of its pupils, community links and their environment.
Welsh Assembly Assessors looked at seven areas for the award – Mental Health and Well-being, Personal Development and relationships, Food and Fitness, Substance Use and Misuse, Safety, Hygiene and Environment.
They reported that Healthy School work was embedded in everything done at the school with all sectors of the school community committed to its aims.
“The pupils are exposed to a wealth of stimulating educational opportunities. New initiatives are taken on board with great enthusiasm and the structures are in place to enable these to fit into the existing whole school approach.”
