Duration: one and half hour

The School Health Program is defined as “the school procedures that contribute to the maintenance and improvement of the health of pupils and school personnel including health services healthful living and health education”.

Childhood is the age of learning and it is the time when a child start developing practices and attitude towards health. It is very important to target the children for nutritional awareness and demonstration of healthy eating habits methods.

School is considered as place for learning where children learn not only subjective knowledge but also life style practices and health seeking behaviors

The School Health Program is defined as “the school procedures that contribute to the maintenance and improvement of the health of pupils and school personnel including health services healthful living and health education”.

But to speak the truth our school hardly ever has a well defined School Health Programme incidentally the teaching about health is done while treating other subjects of the curri¬culum -such as physiology, hygiene and biology. The approach to these subjects is so academic that they are considered to be important from the ‘examination point of view’ and have very little effect on actual health practices and attitudes.