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LIFE EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS
WHY WE DO IT
Every day children are faced with important issues around their health and well-being. The decisions we make as children can dramatically affect how we live our lives in the future – and this is why Life Education exists. Through education we help students to understand how decisions they make today can affect their future health and well-being. We empower children to make their own decisions based on the information they have and the skills they have been taught.
Children face many challenges growing up in todays world from various substances, economic pressures, bullying and well-being.
6 out of 10 children
are so concerned with the way they look they participate less in daily life
Behaviour Research and Therapy 74, 2015
1 out of 9 children
aged 2 to 14 are obese
The effects of being overweight include low self-esteem, bullying, eating disorders, chronic ill health and even suicide (Annual Update of Key Results 2015/2016 NZ Health Survey).
Approximately 11% of New Zealand high school students
use substances at levels that are likely to cause them significant harm and may cause long-term problems
The Youth ’12 National Health and Wellbeing Survey
New Zealand has the worst teen suicide rate
in the developed world
UNICEF Innocenti Report Card 14: Children in the Developed World
School bullying rates in New Zealand
are among the worst worldwide
Bullying in New Zealand Schools: A final report, Victoria University, 2013
Our Specialist Educators visit schools with their mobile classrooms and our loveable mascot Harold the giraffe to deliver age-appropriate lessons that empower children to make safer and healthier choices – now and in the future.
WE MEET THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN AND SCHOOLS
Through a shared planning approach with schools, we support each school community. After identifying current issues their students are facing, we create individualised lessons tailored to the children to support their learning needs.
In 2023 school leaders across the country strongly agreed or agreeded...
Life Education helps to provide children in my school with the information they need to make positive decisions.(2022, 97%)
I have seen or heard about positive attitude or behavioural changes in the children in our school as a result of Life Education.(2022, 77%)
THE LIFE EDUCATION PROGRAMME
is an annual program; each year builds on what was taught the year before
is provided by a non-profit charitable trust which does not receive any Government funding
costs approximately $28 per child to deliver and the trust raises $17.00 per child of this
teaches children to make wise choices taking care of themselves, each other and our community
WE SUPPORT TEACHERS WITH COMPREHENSIVE UP-TO-DATE RESOURCES
Enabling them to provide education in the classroom before and after our visit
"Things we say and do can get passed on and stay online somewhere forever."
MARIE
"We have to think before we click, cos there are real people online and we need to be kind."
JONO
"Never say anything bad, because millions of people could see it and make the problem worse for the person who is getting bullied, and the person who says it."
JANET
CONTACT US
General enquiries:
Anu Deo or PO Box 1416 Hamilton 3240
Chairperson: Melanie Anderson
07 834 0980