Goal
To institutionalize wellness in school through and enabling environment to ensure that children achieve their optimal growth and development.
Objectives
- Wellness activities are supported and implemented in all the sections through inclusion in the curriculum.
- Integrated approach to school health program.
- Coordinated wellness activities in all the three sections targeting the physical, mental and emotional health of children.
Policy Statement
- The world health organization’s health promoting school guideline shall be recognized as the guiding document for school health policy.
- Create an enabling atmosphere in the promotion of child friendly school environment, for teaching and learning and health development.
- School principal and all coordinators shall ensure that school health program is incorporated into their school strategic plan and annual plan.
- The school shall actively engage their students and teachers in the school health activities.
- Healthy eating habits shall be promoted amongst the students by encouraging students to bring home made lunch and discouraging junk food.
- School dispensary will be an integral element of the school structure with a dispenser a first line of contact utilizing first aid facilities in case of minor injuries.
- Proper first aid facilities will be provided in the school.
- In case of major injury on school premises, school will inform parents and will take child to the hospital.
- Occasional lectures about personal hygiene, cleanliness of the immediate environment, adolescent sexual education and mental health will be delivered in the light of religion and cultural aspirations.
- To highlight the adverse effects of drugs’ use, it will be included in the curriculum and thus will be taught in the class room through different activities by subject teachers.
- Students’ councilors will also work in close association with the health officers to develop environment for students’ positive mental and emotion health.