Healthy students and teachers are changemakers! This theme recognises the importance of encouraging healthy and happy habits for students and teachers, from undertaking awareness campaigns around mental and physical health right through to providing means for students to ride or walk to school.
Ideas And Inspiration
This theme recognises the importance of encouraging healthy and happy habits for students, teachers and the world.
Initiatives schools may get up and running include:
- Awareness campaigns around mental and physical health
- Providing means for students to ride or walk to school
- Bike-sharing
- Public transport or car-pooling co-ordination or rewards
Some helpful resource links:
Resources supporting healthy eating, including a healthy recipe booklet, and elimination of food packaging.
Teaching resource to provide some educational activities that get Australian children talking about walking.
Resources to get students outside and learning in the great outdoors, including outdoor lesson plans and suggestions to get others involved.
Australian Dietary Guidelines –
Advice about the amount and kinds of foods that we need to eat for health and wellbeing.
Lesson ideas to use in your school garden for STEM
Useful ideas for setting up a school garden including creating plots, learning propagation techniques, learning about different types of plants, composting and measuring the weather (temperature and humidity), bush foods and weeds.
