tailieunhanh - Promoting Student Health and Wellbeing: A guide to drug education in schools

Healthy, active living benefits individuals and society in many ways. Positive associations have been found between increased levels of physical activity, good nutrition and physical fitness, and healthy body weight, psychological wellbeing, musculoskeletal health, cognition and readiness to learn. A healthy, active population enhances productivity, pro-social behaviours and personal satisfaction and has the potential to reduce the burden of chronic disease. A role of Health and Physical Education is to educate students to optimise their potential for health and wellbeing. . | Promoting Student Health and Wellbeing A guide to drug education in schools Table of contents Section Promoting healthy confident young Schools can make a Alignment with the national The The The Key competencies and graduate Developing and sustaining a school culture of health and Policies and Involving the Meeting legal Learning opportunities across the school Managing drug-related Managing drug-related incidents Section Drug education within the national The learning Teachers as facilitators of Students as Community in Providing effective professional development for Using external Guidance for teaching and learning programmes in drug Drug education matrix of learning outcomes for levels 1-8 within the health and physical education hauora areas of the national The structure of the Where to go for further help Introduction Promoting Student Health and Wellbeing A Guide to Drug Education in Schools is intended for school Boards of Trustees principals and teachers of drug education within the context of the health and physical education curriculum. The guide provides information and guidance for schools on developing and implementing drug education programmes. It also outlines how these programmes are supported by a whole-school approach to promoting health and wellbeing that links to wider school communities. While readers are encouraged to become familiar with the full resource it has two sections of which one may be more relevant to a particular audience than the other. Section 1 on pages 4-23 is primarily for those concerned with school governance and strategic planning - that is Boards of Trustees and principals. It .