My health
Healthy learning
In a healthy learning place everyone feels valued and is supported to do well.
Most children go to school for at least 12 years and this makes school an important place where children learn and practice healthy lifestyle skills.
Read more about the links between health and learning, in the Achieving Health Promoting Schools: Guidelines for Promoting Health in Schools.
Better health = better learning
No matter what age, healthy students learn better. Children and young people are more likely to do well at school or university when they:
- have regular healthy meals and snacks
- drink plenty of water
- are physically active every day
- sleep for at least eight hours and
- feel positive about their learning.
Being healthy helps children and young people to:
- concentrate
- focus on learning
- stay on task
- have a positive attitude to learning.
Find tools and information to support better health and better learning.
An eat well be active learning place has
- spaces inside and outside that are safe and comfortable to be in
- pleasant places to eat
- drinking water that is easy to access, clean and cool
- school classrooms, spaces and canteens that support healthy food
- play spaces that encourage fun activity and interaction with others
- places where people can sit and talk.
Make your learning place an eat well be active place
Whether you are a
- child care centre
- family day care provider
- playgroup
- out of school hours care facility
- preschool
- primary school
- high school
- universities
- TAFE and colleges.
There are plenty of ways you can boost your children/student’s learning and health through healthy eating and physical activity.
Here are some starting points:
Child care centres
The Start Right-Eat Right Nutrition and Food Hygiene Award.
Includes award information, useful resources on nutrition for babies and young children, healthy menus and recipes for child care centres.
Family day care
The Healthy Food Policy
Includes the policy and useful information and fact sheets about good nutrition for babies and young children.
Early childhood resources
Get up and grow – healthy eating and physical activity for early childhood resources
Healthy eating and physical activity in the early years
For schools and preschools:
Right Bite policy for schools and preschools
Includes links to:
- curriculum ideas
- Eat Well SA Healthy Eating Guidelines for SA schools and preschools
- healthy eating policy templates for schools, preschools and canteens, healthy fundraising and more.
The Premier’s be active challenge is for reception to year 9 students.
The challenge is to do at least 60 minutes of physical activity on at least five days of the week for at least four weeks.
