The School for Health Programme

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LEARN! Manual Example #10.1

This example shows how expansive themes are used in the Netherlands to incorporate traffic safety and mobility education in other subjects or programmes.

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Design

Age Group

6 to 17 year olds

Expansive Themes. Schools could be reluctant to deliver a specific programme on traffic safety and mobility education, but may be more willing if such material was presented in the context of another theme. You may therefore want to consider them when designing and developing your activity.

A Dutch programme uses the ‘School for Health’ approach to encourage primary schools, secondary schools, and VET (Vocational Education and Training) schools to take action by working on healthy lifestyles at school. This means that schools can tackle one or more health themes in an integrated way:

  • nutrition
  • exercise and sport
  • preventing smoking, alcohol use and drug use
  • well-being, relationships and sexuality
  • hygiene, skin and teeth
  • indoor environment, natural environment and physical safety
  • media literacy
  • hearing loss

Road safety has its place in ‘physical safety’. In this example, including lessons on road safety as a topic within the wider expansive theme of health is an ‘entry’ to implement such lessons in schools.

More Information

RIVM (n.d.), Healthy school.

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