Schools and teachers play a central role in promoting nutrition and healthy eating to students. It is important teachers are aware of children’s nutritional needs. Teachers can also help improve their students’ nutrition by implementing nutrition education in classrooms. This can be done in fun and playful ways, like games, competitions and non-food rewards.
Find lesson plans, guidelines and other resources to help you teach nutrition in the Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (PDHPE) syllabus.
Live Life Well @ School supports NSW primary schools to help students build healthy eating habits and get active more often. Get help from a dedicated local Health Promotion Officer (HPO) to support nutrition and physical education actions in place at your school.
Crunch&Sip® supports primary schools to make a daily time for students to eat fruit and vegetables and drink water.
Healthy Living has ideas and tips to help families put together a healthy and balanced school lunchbox. Find quick and easy recipes for lunches like tasty sandwiches, rolls, wraps and snacks from the core food groups for recess and lunch.
Adam Liaw, one of Australia’s favourite chefs, has some quick, easy and affordable lunch ideas you can use to create your own delicious lunchboxes at home. Check out these fact sheets, which are available in English and 39 other languages.
The Heart Foundation has information and ideas about healthy living and eating. It also offers healthy recipes.
Cancer Council NSW has great ideas to help families pack a quick and easy lunch box. Use the healthy lunchbox builder to build a healthy lunch box with the 5 food groups.
Nutrition Australia aims to promote healthy eating by providing evidence-based information and education. Find nutrition fact sheets, healthy recipes, and materials developed specifically for schools.
The Australian Government has information about how to read food labels.
Sports Dietitians Australia aims to provide evidence-based sports nutrition information. They have a range of fact sheets, recipes, and a section on nutrition for active adolescents.
The Australian Government has developed guidelines to help Australians make healthy eating choices. These are based on evidence about eating and health. Nutrition education in NSW schools is based on these guidelines.
See the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating for a visual guide of the five everyday food groups.
Visit the Australian Dietary Guidelines for more information.
For details about the role of healthy eating and nutrition education in the NSW school curriculum, see the PDHPE K-10 syllabus for NSW schools.
The NSW Department of Education’s healthy eating procedures explains how NSW public schools are expected to promote healthy eating habits.
The NSW Healthy School Canteen Strategy helps make the healthy choice the easy choice for kids using the school canteen.