What is Life Education about?
Life Education is a non-government, not-for-profit organisation working with schools to deliver a curriculum-based program that empowers children to make safe and healthy lifestyle choices. We are Australia’s largest provider of health and drug education to school children, delivering our programs to more than 700,000 students across Australia every year.
Our programs support children, teachers and families to explore a range of health topics including nutrition, body knowledge, resilience, decision making, social skills, physical activity, personal safety, medicines, tobacco, alcohol and cybersafety. Providing opportunities to develop knowledge, understanding and skills is important in positively influencing health behaviours.
What do we offer?
Teachers select from a range of age-appropriate health, drug and cybersafety modules to best meet the needs of their students. Students visit the Mobile Learning Centre, meet “Healthy Harold” the giraffe, and engage in an interactive learning session featuring props, role play and audiovisual material. This session is used as a platform to introduce and explore various health topics, which are then consolidated and extended further back in the classroom using comprehensive student and teacher resources. Modules are grouped into Pre-School, Junior Primary, Middle Primary and Upper Primary, and cover a variety of topics:
- Pre-School: a play-based, interactive learning experience related to health, safety and building relationships in their everyday lives.
- Junior Primary: Food and nutrition, personal safety, safety with medicines, body systems, social relationships, physical activity.
- Middle Primary: Social relationships, self-esteem, body systems, personal safety, safety with medicines, food and nutrition, physical activity, cybersafety.
- Upper Primary: Social relationships, body systems, personal safety, physical activity, cybersafety, legal drugs (caffeine, alcohol, tobacco), illegal drugs (if school requests).
Can parents visit the Van?
Parents, caregivers and members of the community are also welcome to visit the Life Education Mobile Learning Centre during an ‘Open Van’ session. This is an informal opportunity to ask questions, look at the props and resources used to deliver the programs, and take home free health brochures. The Open Van Session for parents is 8:45 am -9: 45 am 27th June
Download the Life Ed Schedule to see when your class is visiting the Life Ed van.
