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’
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selling cups of fresh fruit or fruit smoothies at school
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compiling a healthy recipe book and selling it to parents
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holding a community fun run
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promoting movement through dance at a school disco
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hosting a school talent show.
See the Cancer Council’s Healthy Fundraising toolkit for more ideas.