Health Promoting School
Your school is aiming to encourage healthy eating and the benefits of physical activity through the curriculum, school policy and through sharing information with families.
Make a plan to achieve Health Promoting School
- Use the Health Promoting School Action Plan
- The Health Promoting Schools Starter Pack Booklet is under review. Send us an email for information.
- Download the events calendar and use special weeks to link with Move Well Eat Well
- Slot in a staff meeting time each term and use this planner to progress with Move Well Eat Well
Staff and student mental health and wellbeing resources
The sense of community that schools offer is important to maintain for children and young people, even as routines change. Be You have developed some great resources to help you look after students’, and your own, mental health and wellbeing.
Be You wellbeing tools for students
Be You wellbeing tools for staff
Be You also have a range of mental health and wellbeing fact sheets with 7 main themes - wellbeing, development, social and emotional learning, relationships, mental health issues and conditions, mental health support, and grief, trauma and critical incidents.
Cultural Respect resource
Feeling welcome and included is important for all families in our learning communities.
Move Well Eat Well have created a new resource is to support you in building a culturally respectful School that is welcoming for Aboriginal families.
It provides suggestions for:
- building cultural awareness
- creating a welcoming environment
- working in partnership
- including Aboriginal cultures and histories in staff and student/child learning
- links to The Australian Curriculum /Early Years Learning Framework
- Tasmanian and interstate resources
Thank you to Aboriginal Education Services and Warawyn Children's Services for your help in creating this resource.
Cultural Respect resource for schools
Ideas for the classroom, curriculum, policy, families and the wider school community
Curriculum
Our curriculum units are currently under review. Send us an email for more information.
Policy
A policy for health and wellbeing is part of a whole school approach to improving outcomes for children. We have a policy template available for all member schools to use and personalise to their school context.
Families
- Put this jpg file in your newsletter
- Share your school's policy with families. Display it in the school reception or foyer.
- Move Well Eat Well Member logo for your school's website
- Direct families to the Families section of the Move Well Eat Well website
- Copy and paste information about Move Well Eat Well into your school enrolment or family information booklet or make your own flyer to go in your school handbook. See ideas below.
School community
- Use this Move Well Eat Well poster in each classroom or the foyer, announcing you are a Member or Award school
- Move Well Eat Well individual icon Posters
- Speak to your School Association and student leaders about ideas for fundraising
- Find ideas for the food service you offer i.e. canteen, local shop, catering business.
- Use your canteen, class cooking or lunch service to reinforce healthy eating.
- Give your student leaders a role in promoting MWEW, at assembly, in daily PE and in the playground.
- Expand an existing team to include Move Well Eat Well: your Kids Matter team? your student leaders? your Health and Wellbeing Team?
Awards
Applying for an Award
- Please note our Award and renewal processes are changing. For more information check out our MWEW refresh updates page or send us an email.
