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The 5 lessons that were completed on the day were Boxing, Cooking, IWB & Juggling Balls, Gardening and Gymnastics.======

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A health-promoting school approach is adopted in relevant national, state and local health education programs as well as training services in school health curriculum issues for teachers and school professionals.======

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The 'Happy Healthy Humans Hooray' day was just a taste of what a health-promoting school should strive to achieve. A health-promoting school looks at health as a physical, social and emotional wellbeing. It strives to build and encourage health into ALL apsects of life at school and in the community. In saying this, the learning and teaching in the curriculum is still a key part of this approach towards a healthy school.====== If health education were to be effectively and of high quality, it should not simply be incorporated in the curriculum as a series of separate lessons. It is critical that health promotion be related and integrated right across the entire curriculum. Health-promotion should be encouraged and integrated with every subject of the curriculum as this will also demonstrate the importance of health to the students. Each lesson from our health-promotion day can be followed up on and incorporated into the schools curriculum if it has not been already. Boxing, and Gymnastics lessons and other similar active but not traditional sports can be incorporated into the schools sporting curriculum to give the students a chance to experience sports other than the one's they have access to or are already involved in. By Level 6 in the VELS standards, students should be able to demonstrate advanced skills in selected physical activities. Allowing students to attempt different sports such as boxing or gymnastics, can open the door for students and encourage them to discover skills that they themselves may not even know they possess. Although health the knowledge and promotion dimensions are not introduced into VELS until level 3, you can still encourage students on their diet and help them distinguish which foods are good for you and which foods are not. The Master Chef cooking is another lesson that can be included in the schools curriculum but also can be integrated into other subjects. Healthy food recipes can be used in mathematics for example as you can form questions about how much of each food would need to be added and so on. VELS level 6 suggests that the students work towards being able to identify and describe strategies that address current trends in the nutritional status of Australians. They analyse and evaluate the factors that affect food consumption in Australia. The juggling bonanza lesson with the use of the IWB can be run in science, art or even a p.e class. These are just some examples of where the schools can take this health-promotion day and use it or incorporate it into their curriculum.

It is important for schools to think about appropriate learning and teaching methods as well as what is being taught. Schools should use a wide range of methods to include health-promotion across the entire curriculum. An active learning method for example, gives the students more of a say in the content and offers them more responsibility for their own learning. This allows the learner an opportunity to reflect on their own beliefs, values and attitudes and will students to relate to what is being taught. The teaching methods used need to cater for the younger as well as older students.

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