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Hikoi ki te Hauora in the
Health and Physical Education Curriculum

Hikoi ki te Hauora is included in the mental health and sexuality education key learning areas in the health and physical education curriculum. In these key learning areas "students will have opportunities to explore ways in which the physical, mental and emotional, social and spiritual dimensions of hauora contribute to mental health and sexuality education."

(Health and Physical Education in the New Zealand Curriculum, 1999, p 36)

Hikoi ki te Hauora links with the following achievement objectives of Health and Physical Education in the New Zealand Curriculum:

Mental health key learning area

To enable students to gain knowledge, understanding and skills to strengthen personal identity and self-worth by learning about self-awareness, self-reflection, self-appraisal, and self-advocacy, and about personal characteristics, relationships, and contexts that contribute to a sense of identity.
To enable students to develop understanding and personal and interpersonal skills to enhance relationships by learning to use a range of communication skills, examining options, consequences, and positive responses to challenges.
To enable students to develop knowledge, understanding and skills to support themselves and others during times of change.
To enable students to explore values and attitudes which support the enhancement of mental health for the students themselves, other people and society, such as a positive and responsible attitude to their own wellbeing.

Sexuality education key learning area

To enable students to develop understanding that sexuality education is a life-long process, involving the physical, social, spiritual, mental and emotional dimensions of hauora.
To enable students to develop understanding and skills to enhance relationships in relation to friendship, love, and families.
To enable students to develop understanding and skills to identify changing situations, roles and responsibilities of relationships.

The achievement objectives which can be taught through this programme are detailed in the Planning Guide on page 27. The activities will satisfy achievement objectives at level 4 and 5. However, the level of learning of the students will depend on specific learning outcomes identified for the activity.

Note: 5A4 means level 5, Strand A, Achievement Objective Four.

The New Zealand Curriculum Framework outlines essential skills. Those developed throughout this programme are also identified in the Planning Guide on page 27.