Health Curriculum Community Consultation

Kia ora whānau!

Your views are needed on our Health Curriculum guiding statement and the programmes we draw upon to deliver this at Salisbury. Consultation on the Health curriculum is conducted every two years for every school in line with legal requirements. Please read through our draft curriculum statement below and the programmes we currently implement.

We are keen to know:

1. Your level of agreement with our draft Health curriculum statement.

2. What you consider to be the strengths or highlights of our Health curriculum.

3. If you partly or do not agree with the overview of the Health education programme, then what you think needs to change, your questions, or the nature of your concerns. OR what further information do you need to be able to respond?

After reading through the information below, we would ask you take a few minutes to provide us with your thoughts to these questions. This link will take you to our survey.

Thank you for your input in shaping this valuable learning area!

Ellie Salcin-Watts

Principal

Health Programmes in the New Zealand Curriculum

Effective Health programmes include the seven key areas of learning from the New Zealand Curriculum; mental health, relationships and sexuality education, food and nutrition, body care and physical safety, physical activity, sports studies and outdoor education and help children to develop:

➢ Improved levels of movement skills

➢ The ability to make informed decisions about how to care for their bodies

➢ The ability to form and maintain positive relationships with others

➢ The ability to accept and value individual differences

➢ The willingness to apply themselves with vigour and to take risks

➢ The commitment to engage in regular physical activity beyond a school setting.

All of these should contribute to their self-esteem and build a positive and responsible sense of hauora (physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual well-being).

Our Draft Health Curriculum Statement

At Salisbury School our belief for Health Education is underpinned by the school’s vision of ‘greater possibilities in life’ and ‘success beyond Salisbury’, alongside our mission of ‘delivering specialist pathways for learners in a supportive and nurturing setting’. As such, a personalised and culturally responsive approach to delivery, with transition at the heart, is woven across all units of work. Collaboration with whānau is prioritised and pivotal throughout.

Health Education is delivered in alignment to the New Zealand Curriculum (2007). We work to plan and deliver engaging units of learning that empower students to make health enhancing choices in the seven key areas of learning: Mental health, sexuality education, food and nutrition, body care and physical safety, physical activity, sport studies, and outdoor education. The school’s values of kindness, belonging, courage, and teamwork, give emphasis to teaching and learning and provide students with critical reflection. Implementation of learning plans takes place in a safe and supportive environment with campus staff (day school and residential), with some external providers.

To enhance health education delivery Salisbury School works to ensure:

· learning programmes offer opportunities for students to become self-managing learners

· we develop experiential learning programmes

· we develop learner centred learning opportunities

· real life contexts are encouraged which strengthens relevance for our students

· key concepts are reinforced across contexts and given time and support to embed

· the principles of Kahikatea ‘Accelerating Success’ guide the actions which work towards realising the vision of Māori students enjoying and achieving education success as Māori

· our students have the power, combined with choices, to take meaningful action and see the results of their decisions and learning

· community partnerships and relationships are used to support and enhance well-resourced and engaging learning programmes for our students.

Key Programmes that Contribute to our Health Curriculum Delivery include:

· Keeping Ourself Safe (NZ Police) – Key focus areas: I am unique, My body is my own, Unwanted behaviour or touch, Adults who help.

· Pause, Breathe, Smile (Positive Mind Health)

· Mindfulness

· Yoga (external facilitator)

· Positive Behaviour for Learning (PB4L) and Restorative Practice (RP)

· Special Olympics (Top of the South)

· Weekly PE programmes, daily ‘10’ fitness

· Swim Magic – swimming instruction

· Personalised fitness programmes with specialised PE tutor

· Personal care programmes / Wellbeing Plans (residential)

· Digital Citizenship and Online Safety programme

· Social skills programmes: Friendship Formula, Socially Speaking

· Anti-bullying personalised and group teaching and learning (in 2023 we will work alongside you to consider ‘Kia Kaha’ as a set programme for our setting in this area)

· The Introception Curriculum – Mindful Self-Regulation

· Sexuality education (currently supported in a personalised manner with each student in partnership with whanau). In 2023 we will explore ‘The Colours of Sexuality’ and consult further with whanau on the alignment of this programme and possibilities for integration at Salisbury.

· Health food and nutrition education: residential cooking programme, lunch box programme, plant to plate programme, food technology

· St John in Schools programme: Responding to an emergency

· Empowerment Trust: Positive Assertiveness and online safety

· School camp

· Sun, water, and road safety programme

· Cycling safety programme (community constable)

· Firewise (NZ Fire Department) and the Great Shake Out (earthquake)

· Enviro education: healthy communities and environments units (weekly)

· Additional wellbeing consultants and supports: Music therapist, Creative Arts therapist, Counsellor.

Please return to our survey here to share your ideas and thoughts about our draft curriculum statement & the programmes we currently draw upon to deliver this.

Thank you!