ED2623 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Australian Curriculum, Australian Human Rights Commission, Glock
Health and Physical Education - Lecture 4 - Week 4
The Heath Promoting School
What is a Health Promoting School?
- “A health-promoting school is a school that is constantly strengthening its capacity as a healthy setting
for living, learning and working.”
- World Health Organisation (1996) Promoting Health Through Schools - The World Health
Organisation’s Global School Health Initiative World Health Organisation: Geneva.
The Health Promoting Schools Framework (HPS)
- (HPS) encourages a whole school approach to health promotion by developing a coordinated and
integrated approach to the health and wellbeing of all school community members. This model takes into
account the physical, social and emotional needs of all members of the school community. Schools are in an
ideal position to promote and maintain the health of children, young people, school staff and the wider
community. This is a global initiative endorsed by WHO.
The Health Promoting Schools Model
- The triangular partnership between
- Curriculum
- Considers the:
Formal content of teaching and learning approaches
Key issues
The developmental and sequential nature of the program
and resources
- School Partnerships
Include
Family consultation and involvement
Community Based Programs
Development of strong community links to the school
- School Ethos and Environment
Considers the:
School policy and philosophical support for the health curriculum
Approaches to mental health and wellbeing
School community relationships
School’s physical environment (School grounds, canteen, amenities)
Principles of a Health Promoting School
A Health Promoting School:
- Promotes the health and wellbeing of students
- Enhances the learning outcomes of students
- Upholds social justice and equity concepts
- Provides a safe and supportive environment
- Involves student participation and empowerment
- Links health and education issues and systems
- Addresses the health and wellbeing issues of all school staff
- Collaborates with parents and the local community
- Integrates health into the school’s ongoing activities, curriculum and assessment standards
- Sets realistic goals built on accurate data and sound scientific evidence
- Seeks continuous improvement through ongoing monitoring and evaluation.
National Safe Schools Framework
- Health Promoting Schools have been advocated for quite some time. This model has been successful in ensuring that
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students have the same message reinforced from different avenues. In order to better support emotional and
physical wellness in our students here in Australia we have adopted a safe schools framework that addresses
these issues using a multifactorial approach. There are several elements to the framework, which makes it able
to address issues both through policy and educational content.
- Todays lecture looks at the path we have taken here in Australian towards achieving this, as well as our current
approaches to dealing with bullying in schools.
National Safe Schools Framework (NSSF)
- All children have the right to live their lives free of the threat or the reality of violence. The impact on
children and young people of repeated victimisation can be devastating in the short term, and have
lifelong consequences. Increasingly, the Australian community is voicing its collective concern that bullying
and abuse, in all its forms, are unacceptable aspects of human relationships. Dr Brendan Nelson (2004)
- No single strategy will address all potential risks and create a supportive school environment
- Whole-school effort is needed that draws together specific policy, practices and strategies
- It is a culture and a philosophy underpinning all that happens in the school.
A Safe and Supportive School:
- The risk from all types of harm is minimised
- Diversity is values
- All members of the school community feel respected and included and can be confident that they will
receive support in the face of any threats to their safety or wellbeing
- Safe Schools Coalition Australia
- Aims to create a more inclusive school environment for same sex attracted, intersex and gender
diverse students, staff and families
- Provides resources, practical ideas and support to staff through the Safe Schools Hub – eg. “ All of
Us “
Elements of the National Safe Schools Framework
- http://safeschoolshub.edu.au/safe-schools-toolkit/the-nine-elements
- Leadership commitment to a safe school
- A supportive and connective school culture
- Policies and Procedures
- Professional Learning
- Positive Behaviour Management
- Engagement, skill development and safe school curriculum
- A focus on well student well being and student ownership
- Early intervention and targeted support
- Partnerships with families and community
Supporting Resources
- National Safe Schools Framework (NSSF) is supported by
- The old SDEP Resource
- Challenges and Choices
- REDI - Resilience Education and Drug Information
- One and all - middle primary
- The big move - Upper primary
- My TV - Lower primary
- On the Edge - Upper primary
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Document Summary
Health and physical education - lecture 4 - week 4. A health-promoting school is a school that is constantly strengthening its capacity as a healthy setting for living, learning and working. World health organisation (1996) promoting health through schools - the world health. Organisation"s global school health initiative world health organisation: geneva. (hps) encourages a whole school approach to health promotion by developing a coordinated and integrated approach to the health and wellbeing of all school community members. This model takes into account the physical, social and emotional needs of all members of the school community. Schools are in an ideal position to promote and maintain the health of children, young people, school staff and the wider community. This is a global initiative endorsed by who. The developmental and sequential nature of the program and resources. Development of strong community links to the school. School policy and philosophical support for the health curriculum.
