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Curriculum Alignment

Hauora and Mental Wellbeing

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Key alignment areas
Health
Primary learning area
Phases 2-4
Useful progression range
Strong fit
Students build emotional literacy and describe how feelings, thoughts, and body signals affect wellbeing.

How this handout aligns

The handout gives students explicit vocabulary, a signal-mapping scaffold, and a structured way to notice how taha hinengaro affects the rest of the whare. That supports health learning that is practical rather than vague.

🧠 Taha hinengaro πŸ’¬ Emotional literacy πŸ“Š Phases 2-4

Strongest when students need language and structure for discussing wellbeing in a safe classroom way.

Strong fit
Students identify support pathways, strategies, and respectful help-seeking behaviours.

How this handout aligns

The support-mapping and next-step sections help students move beyond naming feelings to planning what safe action might look like. That gives the task value for health education, mentoring, and pastoral contexts.

πŸ›Ÿ Help-seeking 🧭 Managing self 🀝 Relating to others

Useful when kaiako need students to connect reflection with appropriate support rather than staying at the level of private feeling only.

Strong fit
Students understand mental wellbeing as one part of a wider, culturally grounded model of hauora.

How this handout aligns

The page keeps taha hinengaro connected to tinana, wairua, and whānau. That protects against a narrow individualised model of wellbeing and strengthens the handout's relevance in Aotearoa classrooms.

🌿 Hauora lens 🏠 Te Whare Tapa Whā πŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ Aotearoa context

Most useful when mental wellbeing learning should stay relational, cultural, and mana-enhancing.

Supporting fit
Students practise safe participation by choosing between personal, fictional, and shared scenario pathways.

How this handout aligns

The handout explicitly gives safer reflection options, which supports inclusive participation and better classroom management around sensitive content. That makes it more usable for teacher delivery tomorrow.

🏫 Safe participation 🧩 Differentiation πŸ›‘οΈ Pastoral care

Helpful when kaiako need a low-risk way to teach wellbeing content to mixed groups with different levels of comfort and experience.