Health promotion
Health promotion is a process for developing and maintaining supportive physical and emotional environments. Through health promotion, ākonga learn the value of personal and collective action.
About this resource
This section from health and physical education in The 2007 New Zealand Curriculum outlines one of the four key concepts, health promotion, which is woven through the strands and key areas of learning in health and physical education. It supports teachers in exploring the structure, essence, and components of the learning area.
Health promotion
What is Health promotion?
Health promotion is a process for developing and maintaining supportive physical and emotional environments. Through health promotion, ākonga learn the value of personal and collective action. Ākonga also learn to make a positive contribution to their own wellbeing and that of their communities and environments.
It is important to involve all members of the wider school community—ākonga , staff, whānau, and other community members—in the health promotion process.
By engaging in health promotion, ākonga and teachers can:
- understand how the environments in which they live, learn, work, and play affect their personal wellbeing and that of society
- empower themselves to take action and improve their own wellbeing and that of their environments
- develop supportive links between the school and the wider community
- develop supportive policies and practices to ensure the physical and emotional safety of all members of the school community.