It’s not new for schools to advocate healthy and hygienic practices of students. But,have you heard of – ‘health promoting schools’? The term may be new to many of us. What are ‘health promoting schools’? The schools whose endeavours are directed towards supporting a healthy learning and living environment for students, teachers and other school staff are referred as health promoting schools. Such schools regularly update and upgrade their infrastructure or capacity to meet the required
health standards. To be precise, the health promoting schools sustain, support and commit to improve the emotional, social, physical and moral well being of their school community.