About+the+School+Based+Project

The overall aim of the School Based Project was to create a Healthy Activity day in regional schools who previously may not have had the opportunity to participate in such a program. We choose to run our activities day with the year 7 & 8 students at Rushworth P-12. This type of event requires many hours of planning and organisation in order to make the program a success. The program is run through the 'Sowing the seeds of Wellbeing Program'. Groups were initially selected then each group member was a assigned a specific task for the assessment which they completed throughout the duration of the planning and culminated with completing their specific role on the day. These roles were:
 * __ About the Healthy Activity Day __ **
 * Team Leader
 * Communications Manager
 * Strategic Planning
 * Events Planning
 * Evaluation
 * Policy
 * Environment and Ethos
 * Curriculum
 * Partnerships

All team leaders were able to communicate with the project manager of the 'Sowing the seeds of Wellbeing Program'. This enabled them to ask any questions about the specific schools and liase with the schools through the project manager. Over the next two weeks groups were allocated time in each workshop in order to plan, organise and decide on how the day was going to function. This involved a number of different ideas such as themes for the days, whether there was going to be showbags to give to students, what type of activities were going to be conducted, how these were to be implemented by the group etc. All activities that were coordinated by the individual groups needed to adhere to the Healthy Promoting Schools Framework. Not only this but the activities had to be designed to be fun and engaging for the students. This would ensure that the students were able to gain something from the experience and activities we were running with them. This would then enable the students to think about the different ways that could be healthy so that they make healthy changes in their lives.

As a result of running the Healthy Activities day, through a combination of social, emotional and physical health based activities students were able to gain knowledge about different ways that they could be healthy. The overall idea was not to give them a whole wealth of information that they were likely to forget but rather provide them with practical and fun ways in which they could make long term changes to their health.