The Harare International School Health Program provides a curriculum that addresses the physical, mental, emotional and social dimensions of health. The curriculum is designed to motivate and assist students to maintain and improve their health, prevent disease, and reduce health-related risk behaviors. It allows students to develop and demonstrate increasingly sophisticated health-related knowledge, attitudes, skills, and practices. Specifically, the goal of the Harare International School Health Program is to address the significant health and behavioral issues facing today’s youth, with the hope of improving student health, by helping students develop not only the knowledge but also the skills needed to pursue a healthy lifestyle.

Elementary School

Health Units in the Elementary School are taught either in Science or P.E. depending on the topics. It is not taught in isolation as a separate subject, but rather integrated into the existing curriculum. The Health curriculum is based on six major strands: Tobacco, Drugs and Alcohol; Community and Environmental Health; Family Health and Sexuality; Injury Prevention; and Nutrition. The curriculum is presently undergoing a transformation due to the implementation of the PYP in the Elementary School.

Middle School

The middle school health curriculum focuses on the understanding of health concepts and the development of practices that lead to appropriate attitudes and behaviors. The understanding of factors affecting health and the commitment to appropriate practices are goals of this program.

High School

High school students learn to recognize the importance of health knowledge and appropriate behaviors as factors affecting health throughout one’s life. The exploration of health-related long-term goals is an integral part of this program.