Assistant Principals' Report 

Healthy Food Practices

At Concord School our students access Food Technology classes from Year 7-12. These classes assist our students to develop an understanding of healthy food practices and safe kitchen and food handling while also encouraging students to grow their own food and maintain a functional garden. Throughout the school our students also access a social competencies curriculum that ensures our students have a reasonable understanding of other matters relating to their own health and well-being. To support your child’s learning at home there is a Better Health Channel website.  Find the health and wellbeing information you want when you need it with the new Better Health Channel website.

Since May 1999 the Better Health Channel has helped Victorians stay healthy and understand their medical conditions by providing easy to understand information that is quality assured, reliable, relevant and up-to-date.

The site has undergone a facelift recently with a design that is not only more contemporary but easier to use. The site has also been designed with mobile and tablet users in mind so everything can be accessed more readily.

The content continues to be developed in consultation with experts from a variety of reputable Australian health and medical organisations and covers the wide range of health interests in the community.

Based on feedback, there have been lots of updates and additional features created for the new look, including:

• more videos on health and well being topics
• a new Healthy Pantry feature, containing nutrition information, buying guides and cooking ideas for a range of fresh ingredients
• a searchable database containing consumer information on all commonly prescribed medications
• a new pain section, with information on understanding, managing and treating pain and related conditions
• profiles on hundreds of medical and health-related professions, including how services can be accessed, medicare and subsidies information, qualifications and an overview of services provided.

The Better Health Channel will continue to change and grow as more features are developed over the coming months.

For more information, see: Better Health Channel

The Department's own health and well being portal – MyHealth Matters – can help you learn more about your health with an online assessment tool, get motivated with online lifestyle programs, and provide you with handy tips and healthy recipes. To sign up, see: MyHealth Matters

Kirrily Lamers, Colin Simpson & Kath Moore

Assistant Principals