Health education in Australian primary schools is usually taught by classroom generalist teachers, who often do not have the time or knowledge to confidently include health in classroom lessons. In light of this, we wanted to understand: We conducted focus groups with 30 teachers across four Tasmanian primary schools to help us answer these questions. […]
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We interviewed parents from primary schools participating in HealthLit4Kids to gauge their views on the impact of the program. Overall, parents valued HealthLit4Kids. Responses from parents identified three major program outcomes: child engagement, behaviour change and parent engagement. Child engagement: Parents observed that children were motivated to participate in the program activities and enjoyed participating.
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In this study we set out to identify the factors that support teachers to develop health literacy in primary school settings. We analysed written reflections on the HealthLit4Kids program from 84 participating primary school teachers. We found three key areas that supported classroom teachers to develop health literacy. First, a whole-of-school approach provided a common
When developing HealthLit4Kids, we wanted to make sure that we learned from the experiences of other school-based health literacy programs in schools. We searched databases of academic papers and found 21 studies that described school-based health literacy programs. Six of these papers were about health literacy programs in a primary school setting. These studies illustrated
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