ABSTRACT
This study has been carried out during a period of great change in primary schools, since the introduction of the National Curriculum, testing, devolvement of budgets to schools, and in the context of increasingly stringent limits on education expenditure. Judging by media reports, educational standards have been a focus for mounting concern. Governmental emphasis on test scores, the principle of parental choice, new responsibilities of governors, have all been cited as fuelling this concern. In the midst of this confusing and changing scene, our study has aimed to consider the status of children’s health at school: the physical and social environment, intersections of education and health, the input of various agencies and staff; and children as social agents in the maintenance and restoration of their own health.
