Learning and Teaching

Kids Building Future Healthy

This term, the Year 5 and 6 Community are learning about how to help their local community be active, eat well and feel more connected. 

As part of the unit, the students are learning:

• What it means to be healthy
• What choices we can make for a healthier lifestyle
• What issues in the community affect our health
• How to promote healthy choices
• How to build a solution to a health-related problem in the local area
• How our body changes as we transition/grow up
• To recognise how our needs change over time

They have been thinking about what they know.

Monash University and VicHealth have teamed up to offer a new project that encourages kids to build healthier futures - in Minecraft Education Edition. 

Over the next few weeks your child will have an opportunity to learn more about their community and what can help make the community healthier. The project wants kids to help Monash and Vic Health understand what things impact their health and the community more broadly. They also want kids to help them work out solutions to community health challenges.

This project focuses on three main community health challenges;

1. Helping the community be more active
2. Helping the community eat well
3. Helping the community be a more friendly and welcoming place

The students will be working through a number of quests to complete the work.

Quest One - Introductions

Quest Two - Local Community Audit - getting out in the local area and doing research

Quest Three - Minecraft Challenges

Quest Four - Minecraft Build

We will update their progress on this page over the coming weeks. You can read more at the official website - https://kidsfuturehealthy.com.au/ 

Deborah Courtney

Director of Learning and Teaching