This Is Your Life (Lower primary)

This series of three books gives students the skills and knowledge they need to make and value positive lifestyle choices. Each book in the series contains five units of work, each focusing on a different aspect of health, lifestyle or behaviour. The topics covered are eating choices, activity choices, your body choices, learning choices, and safety choices.

The book gives students:

• understanding about the value of making certain choices in their lives
• information about the choices they have
• a reason for making a change that is more powerful than the reason not to
• understanding of how their body works and how their behaviour affects its functioning
• health messages that are coated in liberal doses of fun, enjoyment and interest.

Students will gain skills in making positive choices about their own lives and so will be protected to some extent against the influence of the peer group, poor adult role models and the marketing and advertising of food and lifestyle products. They will become aware of the importance of being active, eating well and getting along with others, and they will be able to act safely in a range of situations.

An important aspect of these books is the explicit links with values education. Students who are able to take control of their own health choices and understand how their values influence their behaviour and lifestyle will be more likely to have long-term positive health outcomes.