Healthy Active Learning
Healthy Active Learning is a joint government initiative between Sport NZ, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Health and Health NZ – Te Whatu Ora. It supports schools, kura and early learning services to improve the wellbeing of tamariki and rangatahi through healthy eating and drinking, and quality physical activity and curriculum delivery.
The initiative enables schools, kura and early learning services to create healthy and active learning environments, and better connection to their local communities.
Healthy Active Learning was launched in 2019.
A locally-led approach to a joint-government initiative
The initiative is delivered through two distinctive approaches:
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Healthy Active Learning evolved from the Play.sport pilot project, which was informed by the School Sport Futures Project.
