Live Life Well @ School

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Healthy living supports children’s healthy growth and development and can help them do their best at school. Live Life Well @ School is available to all NSW primary schools. A dedicated local Health Promotion Officer (HPO) can help you to put nutrition and physical activity programs in place at your school. 

​The benefits of Live Life Well @ School

Students who eat healthily and are physically active have better learning outcomes and overall health and wellbeing. Getting involved in Live Life Well @ School can:​​

• ​help you encourage healthy eating and physical activity throughout your school
• increase teachers’ knowledge and skills to improve healthy eating and physical education teaching in your Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (PDHPE) programs
• give you the confidence to put healthy eating and physical activity programs in place (including a healthy school canteen)
• help you build community partnerships that can support these programs.

​How schools can get involved in Live Life Well @ School

Live Life Well @ School is available to all NSW primary schools including government, independent and Catholic schools.

You can get help to start Live Life Well @ School through your local HPO, who can support your school to:

• ​create an action plan for starting Live Life Well @ School
  
• develop a whole school approach to healthy eating and physical activity
  
• get teaching resources and tools to support healthy eating and physical activity within the PDHPE syllabus
  
• provide support for a healthy school canteen
  
• provide information about community events that promote healthy eating and physical activity
  
• navigate other health support needs, such as vaping.
  

You can also get ongoing support via site visits and workshops, phone and email support.

Contact NSW Health’s Live Life Well @ School team on MOH-llws@health.nsw.gov.au​ to connect with your local HPO to get started.​

​Healthy school fundraising

School fundraisers can be an opportunity to promote healthy living for students and families. Live Life Well @ School encourages schools to include healthy foods and physical activity into fundraising activities.

For example, instead of selling chocolates, you could consider:

• ​a ‘mango drive’ or a ‘strawberry drive’
• selling cups of fresh fruit or fruit smoothies at school
• compiling a healthy recipe book and selling it to parents
• holding a community fun run
• promoting movement through dance at a school disco
• hosting a school talent show.

See the ​Cancer Council’s Healthy Fundraising toolkit​ for more ideas.​