At Wallarano, our dedicated Health Program empowers students to build the knowledge, self-awareness, and life skills needed to make informed, positive decisions for their lifelong health, safety, and wellbeing.
Aligned with the Victorian Curriculum F–10 (Version 2.0), our curriculum takes an explicit, strengths-based approach. We focus on preventive health literacy, risk management, and personal identity across key developmental stages.
Key Focus Areas & Learning Topics
Our Health program spans key physical, personal and social health domains, structured through age-appropriate modules from Foundation to Grade 6, including:
- Healthy & Sleep Habits: Students explore fundamental personal care routines, physical activity, balanced nutrition, and the vital role sleep hygiene plays in brain development, mood regulation, and learning.
- Food Safety & Nutrition: Learning goes beyond the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating to include safe food handling, hygiene practices, understanding food choices, and establishing healthy patterns.
- Sun & Water Safety: Essential protective behaviors tailored to our Australian environment. Students learn SunSmart habits (UV awareness, slip/slop/slap/seek/slide) and critical aquatic safety strategies for pools, beaches, and waterways.
- Alcohol & Other Drugs: In upper primary levels, students engage in age-appropriate learning around household chemical safety, medicine management, and understanding legal/illegal substances—developing assertiveness, decision-making, and help-seeking strategies.
- Relationships & Sexuality Education: Delivered in an age-appropriate, supportive environment focusing on body awareness, pubertal changes, personal boundaries, body autonomy, emotional intelligence, and building healthy, respectful connections with others.