Healthy Lifestyles

Active transportation is any form of human powered travel such as walking, biking, rollerblading, and skateboarding. Active school travel leads to healthier children, less traffic and pollution, safer school zones, and better academic performance.

• Active & Safe Routes to School has a School Travel Planning Manual, resources and programs that are linked to the curriculum to support active school travel 
• Ontario Active School Travel works to ensure a comprehensive, inclusive, and sustainable approach to getting students walking and cycling. This site shares resources, activities and information on the Five E's that contribute to successful school travel planning: education, encouragement, engineering, enforcement and evaluation.
• SchoolTravel.ca shares many ways to take action to boost sustainable travel at your school. Offers a school travel planning toolkit and the Ideas Lab - a searchable catalogue of inspirational ideas and how-to resources that will help you get started.

• Animal bites: in the event a student is bitten or scratched by an animal during the school day, principals must report this to HPPH right away for follow up.
• EcoSchools Canada offers a certification program for elementary through secondary schools that nurtures environmental learning and climate action.
• Insect repellents: How to protect your child from insect bites
• Lyme disease and ticks. Also see the video, How to properly remove a tick.
• Outdoor Education Toolkits from Ophea were developed to enrich and promote a culture of safety-mindedness, increase teacher awareness, confidence, and preparedness to teach outdoor education safety and risk management, and increase student awareness, confidence, and preparedness about outdoor education safety and risk management. Kits are available for Grades 1 to 8, and Grades 9 to 12.
• Quality Participation on Playgrounds Resources from the Canadian Disability Participation Project provide strategies and recommendations for building quality participation and designing inclusive playgrounds for children with disabilities.
• Teacher's Guide to Outdoor Learning from Pathway to Stewardship & Kinship provides tips, resources, strategies and activities to encourage outdoor learning.  
• Thrive Outside from Child & Nature Alliance of Canada is an online resource portal. It includes a Teacher’s Guidebook with strategies, tips, and ideas for bringing learning outside. It also offers resources to support educators in leading children in unstructured play and learning outdoors. 

• 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Children 5-11 and Youth 12-17 Years encourage children and youth to "Sweat, Step, Sleep and Sit" the right amounts for a healthy 24 hours.
• Active Kids is a free physical activity program for kids of all ages and abilities. It includes lesson plans, training, and support needed to get kids moving for up to 45 minutes a day. It also includes shorter movement breaks, games, and activities tailored to your needs as an educator or parent.
• Ophea (Ontario Physical and Health Education Association) provides a variety of physical activity lesson plans, ideas, professional learning and more.
• Playground Activity Leaders in Schools (PALS) is a playground leadership program for elementary schools that encourages all students to participate in organized activities at break times. PALS provides meaningful leadership opportunities for students in junior and intermediate grades to lead fun and safe playground games for students in primary grades that promote increased physical activity, inclusivity and a sense of belonging. One or two school staff will act as facilitators to coordinate student leadership training and provide continued support.
  
  • PALS Playground Activity Leaders in Schools Facilitator Handbook and Student Leader Training Guide | Peel Region
  • For all other PALS Program Resources (such as Student Training Guide, Student Leader Handbook, Games Book and Certificates) please complete the school health request form.
  • PALS program resources were created by Peel Public Health and approved for use only within Ontario.
• Ready, Check Go! Series from Physical and Health Education Canada (PHE Canada) is a physical activity tracker designed to help children and their parents/guardians understand the importance and enjoyment of incorporating regular daily physical activity in ways that suit their personal beliefs and needs.

PHE Canada (Physical and Health Education Canada) provides recommendations and implementation steps to help manage school-related sedentary behaviour.

Mental Health Literacy provides a Healthy Sleeping resource sheet that can be given to adolescents to find tips for a good night's sleep.