No Smoking Day is a long-established and very effective health awareness campaign which aims to help smokers who want to stop by providing an opportunity to do so in a supportive environment. The campaign emphasises the benefits of quitting and the help available, and we produce a range of posters, leaflets and promotional materials each year...

Pupils at a Caithness primary school have been named as the winners of a competition to celebrate Healthy Highland Week in which they had to suggest healthy alternatives to sweets as rewards...

The Highland Council, Education, Culture and Sport Service in partnership with other services has developed an E-safety Strategy for all school communities in Highland. This has been approved by The Highland Council Education, Culture and Sport Committee on the 18th November 2008 and also by the Local Negotiating Committee for Teachers...

‘Safer Internet Day’ is a global event which takes place each year in February 10th with the purpose of promoting safer and more responsible use of online and mobile communication technology. There is a Safer Internet Day site with a dedicated quiz (including very random questions related to European geography and with no answers), but to be honest, I thought that raising awareness could be so much more engaging than a visit to a quiz site or putting up a poster...

WILL YOU TAKE THE CHALLENGE?

5th - 11th October 2008

www.alcoholawarenessweek.com

The Autumn Walk to School Week will this year run from 3rd to 7th November (this coincides with the latter half of Healthy Highland Week)