Question: Who Is Harold The Giraffe?

Lovable giraffe, caring and loyal friend and passionate advocate for the health and safety of all Aussie children and their families, Healthy Harold is an Australian icon. Alongside Life Education, Healthy Harold has been visiting schools for 40 years.

Is Harold the giraffe still a thing?

Littlies are taught subjects like resilience and reading emotions, and as they go through their primary education later get introduced to subjects including cyber bullying, drugs, and puberty. 28 years later, Harold is still beloved by many students across the country, myself included.

Does Healthy Harold still exist?

Healthy Harold has been helping Life Education empower children across Australia to make safer and healthier choices since 1979. Delivered face to face, our unique program reaches over 710,000 Australian children each year.

Who started Healthy Harold?

Few Australians have understood this better than our founder, the late Rev Ted Noffs. Through his work at the Wayside Chapel, Ted witnessed how health and social issues were impacting the lives of Australian children and wasn’t prepared to watch it get any worse. The year was 1979.

What did Healthy Harold teach?

Help teach students about the importance of sun, road and cyber safety, as well as healthy eating and healthy lifestyles.

What does Harold the giraffe teach?

Harold is the poster boy (toy?) for the Life Education program, an initiative launched in 1979 to educate children about the importance of making safe, healthy choices. The Life Education caravan anchored in the school carpark. The steps up into the classroom inside.

Is Harold the giraffe Australian?

Lovable giraffe, caring and loyal friend and passionate advocate for the health and safety of all Aussie children and their families, Healthy Harold is an Australian icon. Alongside Life Education, Healthy Harold has been visiting schools for 40 years.

Was Healthy Harold Happy Harold?

There is still some debate around whether the informative giraffe was referred to as Happy or Healthy Harold, and while we were certain it was the former it turns out Happy Harold was never his official name. Life Education explains, “In true Australian fashion, ‘Happy’ Healthy Harold could be considered a nickname.

Is Healthy Harold Australia wide?

Our program is most effective when we work together; Adopting a system-wide approach, our program is most effective when engaging the entire school community; students, teachers and parents. It’s an approach designed to impact the health and well being of Australia.

What is no hat no play?

Many elementary schools in the U.S. ban students from wearing hats on school grounds. In Australia, schools and daycares have a strict “no hat, no play” policy, meaning children cannot go outside to play unless they’ve slapped on a hat (a wide brim or legionnaire hat).

When did life education start?

Our program, launched with our establishment in 1979, remains at the core of our work. Designed by health and education experts, constant revisions ensure relevancy and appropriateness for all students. Our Mobile Learning Centres take our program to more than 700,000 children each year.

Who is life education?

Life Education New South Wales is a community-based, independent organisation at the front line of positive and preventative childhood health education. In NSW approximately 300,000 students in more than 1,800 schools take part in our preschool, primary and secondary program each year.

How does Healthy Harold work?

Each session is designed to intrigue, excite and prompt further learning. Joined by, Healthy Harold, our specially trained educators bring to life lessons that empower children to make safer and healthier choices, now and in the future.

What is Crunch N Sip?

Crunch&Sip® is a set time in primary schools for students to ‘refuel’ on vegetables, salad and fruit and ‘rehydrate’ with water. Students who are not hungry and are well hydrated perform better in the classroom, show increased concentration, and are less likely to be irritable and disruptive.