Health Promoting Schools

East Tamaki School is a Health Promoting School. This means that we teach students how to make healthy choices in what they eat, how they choose to interact with others and they deal with challenges and new situations.

This health promotion focus can be seen in:

• Our provision of Subway on Friday’s, which is a healthy alternative to takeaway food.
• Our Garden to Table programme, which gives children knowledge about growing and preparing healthy fruit and vegetables.
• Our Values programme, which focuses on our attitudes and behaviour towards others.
• Our Kapai Gold Award system, which encourages and values positive choices made by the children.
• Our Caught Being Active Award system, which encourages and values positive physical activity choices made by the children.

Enviroschools

This year the school became an Enviroschool. One of the aims is for our students to become more aware of the environment around them and how to look after it. The school was very fortunate to have a large worm farm donated by Mercury Energy. The school’s fruit and vegetable scraps along with other ‘worm friendly’ material is put into the worm farm. The worms turn this waste into compost which will be used to feed our gardens.

Next year the school will be involved in more recycling of paper and plastic which will help with the school and community environment.

Home School Partnerships

There are many ways parents and families can help.

Parents are very welcome to help at school in the classroom listening to children read, helping with art and sorting equipment. Parents could also help around the school with gardening.

OR: You may have a skill that you can share with us, and/or the children. Please talk to your child’s teacher or speak to Ms Sarah Mirams – the principal.