It is being run by the not-for-profit healthcare body Nuffield Health alongside Wood Green School in Oxfordshire, which was selected for the programme after winning a national competition.
The initiative is to be funded by Nuffield and will see a two-year secondment of a head of wellbeing to develop and implement health and wellbeing strategies in the school.
The pilot will also focus on staff wellbeing, taking a holistic, whole-school approach.
It comes after research by Nuffield and the think-tank 2020health suggested that poor emotional wellbeing and high levels of obesity are two issues that could be improved with dedicated support in a school setting.
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