Healthy Active Learning

With support from the Healthy Active Learning team at CLM Community Sport, Kauri Flats School in South Auckland is prioritising the wellbeing of their ākonga. They have seen first-hand the difference it makes with attendance and engagement.

Onehunga Primary School has been changing the way it fosters playful opportunities, as a result of the collective effort of the school’s leadership team, teaching staff and importantly – the tamariki.

Papakura Marae is undoubtedly a pillar of its community, offering 51 community services, including a GP clinic, weekly community dinners, and driving lessons. Now, through a growing collaboration with the Healthy Active Learning team at CLM Community Sport, the urban marae is using the draw of physical activity to connect with schools in the area in new ways.

Primary and intermediate schools across Taranaki are being supported through Healthy Active Learning to re-think their approach to traditional physical activity events and seeing more students engaged and enjoying themselves as a result.

The Sport Waitākere Healthy Active Learning team has been instrumental in supporting the development of a school environment that promotes quality play, sport, and physical activity for all tamariki at the West Auckland primary school.

Tamariki from nine Healthy Active Learning schools in and around Ashburton put on a day-long expo for other schools to take part in a huge range of fun activities and learning about out the importance of being active and eating healthy kai.

In the Bay of Plenty, two kaiako are benefiting from the tailored support of their local Healthy Active Learning team to deepen their practice and better support the wellbeing and learning of ākonga as a result.

Our Lady of the Assumption, a Year 1–8 Healthy Active Learning school in Ōtautahi Christchurch, is undertaking a whole school three-year transformation into a more inclusive, active, and play-friendly environment that is more suited to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse school roll.

Since it began in 2020, Healthy Active Learning has grown to be in over 40 per cent of schools across the motu. To celebrate reaching this milestone, Minister for Sport and Recreation Hon Grant Robertson joined tamariki at Randwick School in Lower Hutt.

Supported by the Hawkes Bay Health and Wellbeing Partnership Group, Napier's Richmond School held an Active Hub Whānau Day to bring together students, whānau and community health and physical activity providers for an afternoon of being active, sharing kai and connecting.

Girls at Waikowhai Intermediate are claiming their turf with the establishment of their own lunchtime walkers’ group. This is one result of the Healthy Active Learning school’s more inclusive approach to physical activity.

At Papakura’s Edmund Hilary School, school-wide physical activity initiatives put student-voice and wellbeing at the centre of decision making.

Hear from some of the workforce around New Zealand and find out what motivates them to do them to contribute to improving the wellbeing of tamariki.

70 members of the physical activity workforce supporting teachers and schools in the delivery of Healthy Active Learning met for a three-day hui in Lower Hutt.

To support teachers and kaikao of Health and Physical Education, find curriculum-focused policy and guidance, teaching and learning resources, professional development support, and a range of links for additional support.

Showing how well Healthy Active Learning is being implemented and progressing toward achieving its outcomes. 

Highlighting some of the fantastic work by everyone involved in Healthy Active Learning across Aotearoa, New Zealand.

A series of resources to help schools and kura create opportunities for year 1-8 students to engage in a range of physical activity that contributes to their wellbeing. These are based on lessons from our Play.sport pilot.

A resource to support teachers, kaiako and others to implement activities that are appropriate to, and extend children’s learning, confidence, ability, and enjoyment in Physical Education.

This project supports schools and kura, sporting organisations, and local communities to collaborate and develop new learning opportunities through sport, engaging tamariki in new, different and innovative ways, as New Zealand hosts a series of major sporting events over the next few years.

Video resources developed for teachers, kaiako and our partners.

Explores the processes and approaches of enhancing quality physical education and physical activity in schools.

Play.sport facilitators, activators and stakeholders share their thoughts.