"Promoting Personal Excellence"
St. Patrick’s College achieved a Silver award in this year’s Health Promoting School’s Award. This is the school’s first year of participation in the award. The Award is the only initiative of its kind in Northern Ireland. It is coordinated and funded by a well-established partnership between the Health Promotion Department of the Western Health and Social Care Trust, the Western Education and Library Board, and the Western Group Environmental Health Service, which includes the five District Councils in the West (Strabane District Council, Omagh District Council, Fermanagh District Council, Limavady Borough Council and Derry City Council).
The Award Ceremony took place on Thursday 30 April 2009 in the Everglades Hotel, Londonderry. Michael Gormley (Health Education coordinator) and Chloe Mullan and Niamh Mullan represented the school at the ceremony. During the ceremony Niamh gave a very impressive and humorous speech on the virtues of canteen lunches and how perceptions do not always match with the reality of what school canteens provide.
At the beginning of the Academic year the school completed a self-audit application before being visited by an assessment team to determine the standard of health promotion policy and practice within the school.
The Award is the only initiative of its kind in Northern Ireland. It is coordinated and funded by a well-established partnership between the Health Promotion Department of the Western Health and Social Care Trust, the Western Education and Library Board, and the Western Group Environmental Health Service, which includes the five District Councils in the West (Strabane District Council, Omagh District Council, Fermanagh District Council, Limavady Borough Council and Derry City Council).