Life & Health Education

At Marina View School we seek to provide a caring, child friendly environment where students feel safe and able to - ‘learn and grow with confidence’. Opportunities are provided for students that promote a sense of self-­value and worth. All students are encouraged to maintain a fit and healthy lifestyle.

To support our Health Curriculum, we offer the following programmes for our tamariki.

Life Education

Marina View School engages Life Education Trust bi-annually to educate our students on food and nutrition, human biology, relationships and communities, identity and resilience, and substances. For more information about these programmes please visit lifeeducation.org.nz.

Positive Puberty Plus

As part of the NZ Health & Physical Education Curriculum we engage Nest Consulting to provide their ‘Positive Puberty Plus©’ programme for our Year 6 & 8 students each year. Topics covered are age appropriate in a way that relates to puberty, the changing body, sense of self, decision making, media influences, celebrating diversity and body confidence. For more information on these programmes please visit Nest Consulting at nestconsulting.nz.

Stepping Out

Our Year 1 & 2 students participate in the Stepping Out programme, developed by the NZ Police, around teaching safety to young children on our roads. Stepping Out is facilitated by our Local Constable. The children are shown how to use the pedestrian crossing safely and awareness around footpaths and driveways.

Kia Kaha & KOS (Keeping Ourselves Safe)

We work closely with the NZ Police who facilitate the Kia Kaha and KOS (Keeping Ourselves Safe) programmes at school, with support from our local Community Constable.

Kia Kaha consists of a comprehensive range of anti-bullying resources to help children and young people learn and apply a range of safe practices that they can use to build and maintain successful relationships throughout their lives. Through Kia Kaha students develop strategies for respectful relationships where bullying behaviours are not tolerated.

Keeping Ourselves Safe is a comprehensive child abuse prevention programme for schools. Its purpose is to:

  • teach students a range of safe practices that they can use when interacting with other people, both online and face to face
  • teach students how to recognise the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships, and encourage students who have been or are being abused to seek help
  • prevent abuse by making parents and teachers more aware of their responsibilities to help students avoid abuse.
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Health & Physical Education Curriculum

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