Objective: Increase students’ access to healthy food in schools and encourage them to adopt healthy eating behaviours/habits.

Target audience: All students, staff and canteen vendors

Programme details:
All schools will be provided the criteria and guidelines on providing healthier food and beverage choices in schools.

Find out more about Healthy Meals in Schools Programme here.

Objective: Encourage students to incorporate regular physical activity into their daily lives.

Target audience: All students

Duration: 1 hour

Programme details:

• Secondary Schools can mix and match to opt for different types of physical activities (e.g. Zumba, Dodgeball, etc.)
• Programme is offered on a package basis of 10 sessions per school. Each student is encouraged to attend all 10 sessions where possible.

Format: In-person

Objective: To educate students on the harms of smoking/vaping and equip them with the knowledge and skills to make informed decisions.

Target audience: Secondary 1 to 5 students

Programme Content:
A 30-minute Interactive Assembly Skit to raise awareness on:

• Harms of smoking/vaping.
• How smoking/vaping is related to other youth developmental issues.
• Benefits of a nicotine-free lifestyle.
• Promoting nicotine-free norms.
• Peer pressure to smoke/vape as one of the challenges that youths encounter during adolescence.

Objective: Provide accurate information on infections such as HIV/STIs, modes of protection against infection, specifically abstinence and the correct and consistent use of condoms, as well as the consequences and impact of STIs.

Target audience: This programme is mandatory for Secondary 3 and JC/CI 1 students

Programme details:
A 1-hour mass talk followed by a classroom lesson within a month of the mass talk.

Format: Pre-recorded video

Objective: To conduct annual health screening, immunisation and dental services for primary school students, to ensure the protection of the students’ health and early detection of health issues.

Target audience: Secondary 1 to 5 students

Programme details:
Health Promotion Board (HPB) Youth Preventive Health and Dental Services conducts annual health screening and dental services for your students. Types of health screening include spinal, hearing and pubertal screening and height/weight/BMI measurements. Find out more on the types of health screening here, and the types dental services provided here.

HPB offers fully subsidised Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccinations to eligible Secondary 1 and 2 female students. HPV vaccination is not compulsory and parental consent is required for the student to receive HPV vaccination. Find out more on the vaccination here.

Format: In-person

Objectives: Facilitate the timely detection and management of high-risk behaviors (smoking/vaping) and health related issues (obesity and chronic conditions).

Target audience: Students requiring support on weight management and smoking/vaping cessation programmes in schools.

Programme details:

• Schools on this programme are identified by the Ministry of Education. Under this programme, healthcare professionals are stationed in schools to provide convenience for students seeking health-related advices.
• Through individual / group health counselling sessions conducted at schools, lifestyle coaches (student health advisor) provide guidance for students with health related issues.
• Where necessary, timely interventions and follow ups are provided.

Format: In-person or virtual / tele-counselling

Objective: Improve the health and wellbeing of employees in schools and build a health promoting workplace.

Rationale: A sustained and effective workplace health programme improves the overall health and wellbeing of employees. This contributes to a positive workplace environment and productive workforce.

Target audience: All staff

Programme details:

• Engaging workshops that help your staff improve their wellbeing during contact time or staff engagement days.
• Your staff will learn to use tools such as online health coaching and health-related applications to track their personal health.
• Selected members of your staff will be equipped with the knowledge, skills and resources to champion workplace health activities among the rest of the staff.

Format: In-person or virtual

• In-person (School will have to ensure pre-registered numbers of at least 40 to proceed)
• Virtual (School will have to ensure pre-registered numbers of at least 60 to proceed)

Schools have 2 topics to choose from, and each workshop is 1hr long.

Find out more here