Harold and his friends want to look their best for photo day at school, but discover that things don’t always go to plan. This module focuses on things children can do to keep themselves healthy, including:

• The importance of personal hygiene
• Choosing foods for a healthy balanced diet
• Benefits of physical activity and sleep
• Ways to keep safe at home, school and in the community

This module supports students to recognise the importance of taking care of their bodies and helps them manage unsafe behaviours at home, school and in the community.

Learning outcomes include:

• Identifying personal responsibility for a safe and healthy lifestyle
• Understanding what a healthy body needs
• The benefits of physical exercise
• The foods needed for a healthy, balanced diet
• Learning safe and unsafe behaviours, situations and environments

This module examines the many dimensions of health including feelings and emotions, safe and unsafe situations and behaviours that promote nutrition and wellbeing.

Learning outcomes include:

• Identify different emotions and feelings that may be experienced in a variety of situations
• Understanding the benefits of physical activity
• Learn behaviours that enhance wellbeing
• Identify safe and unsafe behaviours, situations and environments

This module educates children about caring for others, seeking help and protecting themselves in unsafe environments.

Learning outcomes include:

• Identifying the characteristics of positive relationships and healthy ways in which people show concern and care
• Strategies to seek help in a variety of situations
• Identifying safe and unsafe behaviours situations and environments

Focusing on how positive lifestyle choices help to maintain internal body systems, students identify and practice strategies to resist pressure from others to maintain personal safety.

Learning outcomes include:

• Recognising that food, water and oxygen can promote health and wellbeing
• Identifying factors that influence health
• Understanding how internal body systems are interrelated and affect health and wellbeing
• Understand how medications affect the body and safe behaviours for use
• Identifying second-hand smoke and a health risk

Take a Breath explores the issues around vaping and smoking through the lens of real Australian students. It features Years 5–6 students who have genuine questions, alongside high school students who provide answers using their voice and perspective to share facts and spark discussion.

The young people in the module investigate the issue by:

• Analysing the history of smoking vs the growth of vaping
• Identifying that nicotine is an addictive drug that impacts wellbeing
• Discussing the social influences around choosing to vape or not

Learning outcomes include:

• What vapes and cigarettes are
• The physical, social, financial and health impacts of smoking and vaping
• The effects of nicotine on the body and the brain
• Connections between vaping and tobacco history
• How to respond with assertiveness and resilience