Collecting Data
• It is important to start thinking about the outcomes at the beginning of your healthy schools progress, particularly with regards to the quantitative outcome which measures a percentage increase or decrease. In this case a baseline measure is needed before any programme starts and the same measure taken once the programme has finished giving evidence of either an increase or decrease as required.
• Most schools collect a huge amount of data already. In the case of Physical Activity data such as your schools sports partnership audits, monitoring uptake of extra curricular sports activities, walking to school and lunch time activities can all contribute to quantitative outcomes. Reported qualitative outcomes can be measured by pupil/ parent/ staff questionnaire or by interviewing a focus group.

How do the outcomes relate to validation?
• Your outcomes will be the areas that are moderated should your school be one of the 10% that get randomly moderated following self validation. The moderators will choose just one outcome (from any theme), plus the school chooses one outcome (from any theme) and only these two outcomes will be moderated. Therefore it is important to measure outcomes that demonstrate the schools strengths and that the school has readily available evidence.