Live Life Well @ School

Murrumbidgee Local Health District’s Health Promotion team work with schools to deliver Live Life Well @ School. Our aim is to get more students active more often, as well as focusing on healthy eating habits. It is a whole school approach to living life well.

See our video showing Live Life Well @ School in action at Gundagai South Public School.

The five key messages of Live Life Well @ School are:

Get active each day
Choose water as a drink
Eat more fruit and vegetables
Turn off the TV or computer and get active
Eat fewer snacks and select healthier alternatives.

For further information, visit the link to the official Live Life Well @ School webpage

Why should your school take part?

Live Life Well @ School helps schools meet their goals for the wellbeing of their students. It contributes to elective PD regarding PDHPE curriculum.

Live Life Well @ School helps partner with the wider community about health and wellbeing to help students achieve their best.

Putting the Live Life Well @ School strategies in place have shown improved students’ academic performance and behaviour in the classroom. See our flyer for more information.

What support will schools receive?

Help to develop and implement Live Life Well @ School Action Plans
Teaching resources including lesson plans, training opportunities and incentives
Newsletter snippets to support the key messages being taught in school
Help for school canteens to implement a healthy canteen
Nutrition and physical activity strategies for the school community to complement Live Life Well at School
Help with local media to promote Live Life Well @ School activities within the school community
Opportunity to sign up to our Live Life Well @ School Mail for access to the latest information on new resources, funding and programs that can help your school.

Support for Live Life Well at School

If your school would like to receive support please complete our pre-support survey. This will help us in tailoring our support to you and your school. The survey asks about:

what Live Life Well at School practices are currently in place in your school
what Live Life Well @School activities would your school like to work on
what type of support or resources you might need from us

One of our staff will be in contact with you after you submit the survey.

Project evaluation snapshots

We have summarised a range of projects that have supported aspects of Live Life Well @ School through these evaluation snapshots. Please read these to get an understanding of the projects and if you have any questions please get in touch with us at mlhd-hp@health.nsw.gov.au

Live Life Well @ School Enhancement grants 2020

Programs within Live Life Well@ School

All Students

Crunch and Sip (school fruit, vegetable and water activity)

Crunch and Sip is a classroom-based activity. Students eat fruit or vegetables and drink water during class time. It boosts energy during the vital morning period. For more information, please visit Crunch and Sip.

Healthy School Canteens

Through Live Life Well @ School, we help canteens to meet the NSW Healthy School Canteen Strategy. For more information, visit our Healthy Canteens page or Department of Education Healthy School Canteens.

Vegetable Week and the Big Vegie Crunch

Vegetable Week is held in Term 1 each year and aims to increase students’ knowledge, exposure and positive attitudes towards vegetables. The Big Vegie Crunch occurs on the Thursday of that week and is an attempt to get as many NSW primary school students crunching vegetables together. Visit Vegetable Week and the Big Vegie Crunch to register and receive resources.

Fruit and Vegetable month

Fruit and Veg Month is a health promotion program for NSW primary schools which runs over the last 4 weeks of Term 3. It has a positive focus on fruit and vegetables. To find out more information about this visit Fruit and Veg Month.

Ride and Walk to school day

Riding and walking to school is an everyday activity that keeps the environment and us healthy. The next ride to school day is 24 March 2023. Visit Ride to School Day to register. Walk Safely to School Day is 20 May 2023. Visit Walk Safely to School Day for more information.

Kindy Orientation

Beginning school is an important time in a child's life. We have developed several resources to share the message about healthy eating for children, to help them concentrate better in class and get the most out of life. Please see the resources below about Lunchboxes and physical activity tips.

Physically Active Children in Education (PACE)

PACE is a multi-strategy intervention that supports teachers to increase their scheduling of classroom physical activity. It has been developed to help more children reach the physical activity guidelines to be healthier to help schools achieve the NSW requirement for 150 minutes of planned moderate to vigourous activity per week. To see more about the program visit: https://youtu.be/FKegnb6GEGg. Contact us if you have any further questions at mlhd-hp@health.nsw.gov.au

SWAP IT

SWAP IT is a free evidence-based healthy lunchbox program. The program supports parents and carers to SWAP what is packed in their child’s lunchbox from sometimes foods to everyday foods. For more information about this program please visit https://www.swapit.net.au/ and if you have any questions about this please contact us at mlhd-hp@health.nsw.gov.au.

Stage 2 Student Challenge

Q4:H20

Healthy drink challenge and class activities

For more information about the activity, visit Q4:H2O. The Q4:H2O page has documents for downloading and printing for use in the challenge.

Stage 3 Student Challenge

Live outside the box
Healthy eating and activity challenge and class activities

For more information, visit Live Outside the Box. If you are interested in running the challenge, download and print the teacher and student ‘Live Outside the Box’ resources.

Professional Learning and Networks

Live Life Well @ School Online Professional Learning – Department of Education

The Live Life Well @ School professional learning courses for K-6 teachers in Department of Education are now available for registration on MyPL. The courses are currently 'teacher elective professional learning' (formerly NESA endorsed teacher identified professional learning*). Please read the Live Life Well at School Online Professional Learning flyer for more information. For further questions about the course please contact LLWS@det.nsw.edu.au.

*NB. On 30 November 2020, NESA announced all endorsements for courses were cancelled following review. Courses will be accredited under the new NESA policy as soon as possible.

Live Life Well @ School Online modules - Independent and Catholic schools

The Association of Independent Schools NSW (AISNSW) developed these with funding from NSW Health. They and are available to teachers from Independent, Catholic and Government schools. The courses are currently 'teacher elective professional learning' (formerly NESA endorsed teacher identified professional learning*).

To register, create an AIS user profile, register for an Online Learning module by searching Online Learning under AIS Courses and Events on the AIS website.

Contact AISNSW on 9299 2845 for further details related to modules.

*NB. On 30 November 2020, NESA announced all endorsements for courses were cancelled following review. Courses will be accredited under the new NESA policy as soon as possible.

Independent Schools Live Life Well @ School Support

Association of Independent Schools NSW (AISNSW) member schools are eligible for further support such as in-school consultancies, funded projects, and regional workshops. For further information about this, visit the AISNSW website.

Classroom Behaviour and Academic Performance - Impact of Nutrition and Physical Activity

Contact us about a facilitated professional discussion in your school regarding Classroom Behaviour and Academic Performance.

Our Health Promotion Officers will facilitate this discussion in either a short 30 min or in depth 60 min session.

The session will explore the impact of nutrition and physical activity on behaviour and academic performance, what your school is doing and identifying areas for improvement.

Contact mlhd-hp@health.nsw.gov .au to book a session.