How the challenge works

The goal is to achieve the 5 challenges every day from Monday to Friday each week

The challenges are targeted at physical, emotional and social wellbeing:

• Eat 5 fruit and vegetables a day

• Exercise 30 minutes a day (ideally this excludes exercise done during school hours)

• Sleep 9-12 hours a night (the recommended amount for primary school children)

• Engage your brain (by reading, solving puzzles and the like)

• Help others

Our program is flexible! Adapt it to your needs.

• While we recommend that the challenge lasts five weeks, schools undertaking the challenge can vary how long the program lasts to suit their needs

• Instead of starting off with all five challenges in the first week, you can start off with less and add more each week (e.g. Week 1: sleeping adequately and helping others; Week 2: Add exercise 30 mins and engage your brain; Week 3: All five challenges)

• Younger children can undertake an adapted program where only one of the challenges is the focus of each week of the program

• Teachers can adapt the program including what each Health Heroes character represents to suit your teaching curriculum

At the end of the program, teachers are encouraged hold an event to celebrate completion of the challenge where certificates can be handed out to students

Children who achieve 25 points every week of the challenge will be awarded a certificate of achievement while other students will receive a certificate of participation

Find resources to deliver the challenge in your classroom or family here, including a portfolio for children to record how each challenge has been achieved every day, and certificate templates for the end of the challenge

Families are encouraged to continue with these challenges beyond the end of the program to keep up healthy habits in their children