Health, Sport & Activities

At Ōrātia we offer many different sporting opportunities for the children at the school. These can be grouped into competitive sport and playtime sport. Click on the buttons below to find out more. 

Ōrātia District School Health Curriculum Statement:

Health Education at Ōrātia District School aligns with our vision to develop confident, connected learners who make a positive difference. Through the teaching of health at Ōrātia students will get the opportunity to develop the school values of:

1. Respect - Whakaute

2. Risk taking - Haepapa

3. Resilience - Tūwhitia te hopo

4. Responsibility - Aumangea

5. Reflection - Whakaaroaro

Ōrātia District School teachers use a range of integrated and discrete teaching and learning opportunities to help students develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes they need to embody our values. In addition to this, programmes are supported and delivered by external agencies within the safe school and classroom contexts.

Health Education at Ōrātia District School: 

Health education is delivered at Ōrātia District School. Our aim is for students to: 

1. Develop resilience and a sense of personal and social responsibility. And

2. Take responsibility for and contribute to the wellbeing of themselves, others, their communities and their environment

Units of learning are designed with these goals in mind. 

In addition to having health integrated into learning units, health is also catered for in other contexts. For example, 

1. Values Education: respect, responsibility, resilience, risk-taking, reflection.

2. Positive Behaviour 4 Learning: 

3. Working with the community constable: Keeping ourselves safe and Cybersafety/Kia Kaha.

4. Garden 2 Table

5. Culturally responsive and sustaining practises

6. Hauora & Wellbeing Team (students and staff)

7. Cool Schools Peer Mediation 

8. Te rito toi (Wellbeing lessons)

9. First Aid (St John with Year 5 and 6)

10. Daily wellness (Brain food, fitness, go noodle, cross body activities)

11. Relationships and Sexuality Education

1. Relationships

• Celebration and acceptance of diversity

• Recognition and inclusion of difference

2. Puberty (for Year 5 and 6, taught by an outside provider), 

1. which covers: The physical, mental, emotional and social development that occur, and the new needs that arise during puberty;

2. Strategies to manage the changes they will experience. 

3. Topics for this include: Physical and emotional changes which occur during puberty

4. Anatomy and Physiology of the Reproductive System (girls about girls, and boys about boys)

5. Hygiene in relation to pubertal change.