The second level of the Healthy Heart Award is Whānau. This level is a step up from Rito as we help you to build on and strengthen your healthy eating and physical activity foundations. Joining the Whānau journey will help you to:
Strand 1: Physical activity policy
- Develop or review physical activity policies to include daily physical activity education, professional development, staff role modelling and screen use.
Strand 2: Healthy eating policy
- Develop or review Healthy eating policies to include birthday, celebration, fundraising, professional development, staff role modelling, nutrition and breastfeeding procedures or guidelines.
Strand 3: Food provision
- Develop or review lunchbox guidelines to support your parents and whānau and ensure that they provide many every day and sometimes options and discourage occasional foods.
- Develop or review a cyclical menu, display it to parents.
Strand 4: Healthy eating learning and teaching
- Provide and record learning experiences on healthy eating and physical activity through your learning stories, also demonstrating staff collaboration, child’s voice and parent/whānau engagement.
Strand 5: Physical activity learning & teaching
- Provide and record learning experiences on physical activity through your learning stories, also demonstrating staff collaboration, child’s voice and parent/whānau engagement
Strand 6: Collaboration Ngātahi
- Let your parents and whānau know you are on your Healthy Heart Award journey.
- Promote healthy eating and physical activity through newsletters, Facebook pages, parent’s libraries, display boards, and parents evenings.
- Hold an event or develop a resource that engages the wider community.
Strand 7: Professional Development Tupu Umanga
- Gather nutrition and physical activity resources for your team to help increase their knowledge and boost their teaching practices.
- Develop or review your professional development plan to include healthy eating and physical activity.
- Put in place procedures around knowledge and information sharing.
Need more information? View our Healthy Heart Award Criteria
Not the right level for you ? Check out the Rito or Pā-Harakeke levels
