Kindergarten – Grade 2
Handwashing, brushing teeth, safe food and water, feelings, rest and body safety.
Arts, Health & Wellbeing
Health Education
Grade bands served: Kindergarten through Grade 12
Health Education gives learners the knowledge and habits to protect themselves and their households: personal hygiene and handwashing, nutrition and food safety, safe water and sanitation, communicable and non-communicable disease prevention, first aid, mental and emotional wellbeing, substance avoidance, and age-appropriate health and life-skills education delivered with cultural sensitivity and parental awareness. Public-health lessons from Liberia's own epidemic experience are used to teach prevention and community response.
Why this subject matters
Preventable illness costs school days, income and lives. Health knowledge multiplies through families and communities.
Overall learning goals
- • Practise daily hygiene and preventive health habits.
- • Make informed nutrition and safety choices.
- • Understand disease transmission and prevention.
- • Care for mental and emotional wellbeing.
- • Respond appropriately in emergencies.
Core competencies & skills
- • Hygiene practice
- • Nutrition knowledge
- • Disease prevention
- • Emotional regulation and help-seeking
- • First aid basics
Scope by grade band
Grades 3–5
Nutrition and balanced meals, germs and disease spread, safety at home and on the road, and emotional awareness.
Grades 6–8
Adolescent health and development, communicable diseases including malaria and cholera, mental health, peer pressure and substance avoidance.
Grades 9–12
Public health systems, non-communicable disease, reproductive health with cultural sensitivity, first aid, stress management and health advocacy.
Typical learning activities
- • Hygiene demonstrations
- • Nutrition planning
- • Health guest speakers
- • First-aid practicals
- • Wellbeing check-ins
Project examples
- • School handwashing campaign
- • Balanced-meal plan on a real budget
- • Malaria prevention community outreach
- • School mental-health awareness week
Assessment methods
- • Practical demonstrations
- • Health knowledge tests
- • Campaign quality
- • Personal health-habit tracking
Real-world & career connections
- • Nursing and medicine
- • Community health work
- • Public health and WASH programmes
- • Nutrition and counselling
FutureTech & AI integration
Learners evaluate online health information and AI health answers critically, and learn when a professional must be consulted.
Expected learner outcomes
- • Graduates apply preventive health knowledge at home.
- • Graduates evaluate health information for credibility.