A teacher leads a group of students to look at Health Related Issues in the school. This group meets regularly. They also meet with students from other schools to learn more about Healthy Living. Our school:
- has a Food and Nutrition Policy for the purpose of offering varied and nutritious food choices that are consistent with the National Food and Nutrition Guidelines
- ensures that students receive clear, consistent messages about the importance of healthy eating
- encourages children to be responsible for their own health
- is sensitive to family and cultural issues.
- Benefits for students include:
- creating the best possible learning environment
- helping students to develop life long skills, values and health behaviours that can increase their potential to live long, healthy and fulfilling lives.
- Benefits for the community include:
- empowering community members to actively participate in identifying and addressing health issues.
- Examples from our health promoting school are:
- programme managed by Health Promoting Schools Team
- healthy lunchboxes
- fruit in school
- growing vegetables
- whole school exercising together
- parent chat sessions with guest speakers
- focusing on other health areas such as TravelWise and Keeping Ourselves Safe.