Department of Education and Training

The Department of Education and Training (DET) recognises the strong links that exist between health and education to assist students to take full advantage of their opportunity to learn at school. In line with the views of the World Health Organisation, a Health Promoting School framework has been developed for Australia.

A Health Promoting School (HPS) is a school where a way of thinking and working is adopted by the whole school in order to make it the best possible place to learn, work and play.

The three components of National Health Promoting Schools framework are:

Health Promoting Schools NT assists NT schools to apply the principles set out in the national framework through professional learning opportunities and policy development in the following areas:

• Health (Nutrition and Sexuality) Education (pdf 39 Kb)
• Physical Education (pdf 46 Kb)
• Drug Education (pdf 36 Kb)
• School Sport Coordinators (pdf 24 Kb)

Indigenous Drug Education support materials

Useful links

• Health
  • Healthy School Aged Kids Manual
  • Canteen Nutrition and Healthy Eating Policy
  • Tummy Rumbles Guidelines for Remote Area Schools: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
• Physical Education
  • The NT Hunting Challenge Lesson Pack
  • School Sport NT
• Drug Education
• • National Schools Drug Education Strategy 2009 (pdf 295 Kb)
  • Principles for school drug education | Poster
  • Resilience Education and Drug Information (REDI) suite of resources

Contacts

For more information, please contact Student Services.