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Be You provides educators with knowledge, resources and strategies to help children and young people achieve their best possible mental health.

'Go Noodle' is an interactive site with short videos and interactive games (3-5 min) that encourage students to take regular movement breaks (brain breaks) throughout the day.This resource is free but you need to create an account, with the option to download the app on a second device.

This series of free remote learning resources will help boost your students’ wellbeing. These activities draw on new and existing resources to give your students a wide variety of options. This resource is for students in year R-6.

Get advice about the amount and kinds of foods that we need to eat for health and wellbeing. This resource helps all users follow recommendations from the Australian Dietary Guidelines and Infant Feeding Guidelines.

This resource helps teachers and schools to get children outdoors for all types of activities. Students will add art and natural beauty to their schoolground environments, and connect to their neighbourhood’s unique natural, geographic, and cultural context.

Not sure how to get students learning in the outdoors? These resources will inspire you, and help you plan a range of outdoor classroom activities aligned to the Australian Curriculum. Books, lesson ideas and printable materials will help you communicate about you 'Outdoor Classroom Day'.

'Crunch&Sip' is a WA program that helps set students up for success in their learning. It's all about encouraging them to refuel with vegetables, fruit and water at a set time during the school day.

This website provides units of work including video links, music and assessments for R to 6 students. They can develop personal and social skills, and learn to critically appraise cultural and social factors that shape their own identities, bodies and communities.

SDERA (School Drug Education and Road Aware) has produced printable fact sheets to support parents in the areas of resilience, drug and road safety education.

'Challenges and Choices' is a unit designed to assist teachers who want to guide students in learning about resilience, drug education and road safety activities.

The healthy eating curriculum incorporates information from the Australian dietary guidelines and the Australian guide to healthy eating. This resource provides a range of lessons for R-7 students. Year levels are suggested, although they can often be adapted for other age groups.

Cricket Australia’s development program for primary schools focuses on ‘learning through play’. Also called Woolworths Cricket Blast Health & PE (WWCB HPE), the inclusive and engaging program is built on the foundations of the Australian Curriculum, the Australian Sports Commission Physical Literacy Standard, and the Australian Cricket Coaching Philosophy.

Access communication and healthy relationships resources including videos, tip sheets and stories. The videos and tip sheets are directed at older audiences; the storytelling section is ideal for younger students.

This resource provides information to encourage online safety.

This American resource offers educators free health-related lesson plans, interactive games, educational videos and activities. Students can engage with the range of discussion questions, classroom activities and extensions, printable handouts, and quizzes and answer keys. This site also contains emotional health lesson plans created by Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, called

In this interactive educational lesson and game, reception and year 1 students observe and analyse their biological self and explore bodily functions.

Nature Play SA helps your family enjoy the outdoors. To help you make the most of time spent outside, Nature Play SA gives you practical, creative and simple ideas to try with your children in your own backyard, a local park, or anywhere in the state.

Nature Play SA takes your learning outside. This page includes a Go Wild pack with prompt activity cards to inspire outdoor learning.

PE Central is an American-based website with thousands of free physical education lesson plans and ideas from physical education professionals. Teachers can use the lesson ideas to support their planning in PE.

We don’t need to eat fancy, expensive foods to enjoy good health. Affordable, everyday foods can be 'Superhero Foods'. This fresh approach to nutrition education and cooking empowers children to make healthy lifestyle choices.

The 'e-learning for kids' resource is a free interactive platform that integrates gaming and learning. To make learning fun, courses are presented as 'learning journeys'. While acquiring all their new skills, students 'travel' around the world learning more about the 7 continents, countries, cities, oceans and cultures.

'Playing for Life' activity cards are game-based, and easily adapted to different sports. The cards take a 'game sense' approach to teaching about games and sports. 'Game sense' is an approach to modified sport that:

This series of short, creative yoga videos will introduce students to yoga through storytelling and song. The benefits of yoga include:improving coordination, balance, concentration and rhythmic expressionpromoting healthy living and inclusivitydeveloping strategies to manage stress through breathinghelping students grow in confidenceintroducing students to mindfulness.