Health Trooper Badge Programme Leaders’ Guide 2011

What is the Health Trooper Badge Programme? The Health Trooper Badge Programme is a new badge programme offered exclusively at HealthZone. It replaces its predecessor, the Healthy Lifestyle Badge Programme. The Health Trooper Badge Programme is offered to Brownies and Girl Guides with the aim of empowering primary and secondary school students with essential knowledge and life skills to leading healthier lives. The Badge Programme differentiates itself from others by adopting a student- centered learning approach. It empowers the student with the choice of his/her learning track and puts active learning into focus. The new Health Trooper Badge Programme is also tiered for varying levels of difficulty. This challenges the learning spirit of students and enables them to collect an array of prestigious and exclusive badges.

How would my students benefit from this programme? At each level of the Health Trooper Badge Programme, students learn new knowledge and skills on a variety of health topics and sub-topics. These topics and sub-topics are carefully selected to ensure that they are pertinently relevant to the corresponding learning interests and ability of the students. Students will not only be empowered with new knowledge and skills but will also learn to take the responsibility of learning into their own hands. The programme helps develop active learners. Students are also rewarded with the unique badges we have designed for each level of the programme.

What is the structure of the programme? PRIMARY LEVEL The Junior Health Trooper Badge is a pre-requisite for the Star Health Trooper Badge.

What is the structure of the programme? SECONDARY LEVEL The Dynamite Health Trooper Badge is a pre-requisite for the Warrior Health Trooper Badge. The Warrior Health Trooper Badge is a pre-requisite for the Supreme Health Trooper Badge.

What is the structure of the programme? HZTestAssignmentsCCIP PRIMARY Junior Star SECONDARY Dynamite Warrior Supreme

What is my responsibility as their leader? As a leader, you will be required to: 1.Register for the Health Trooper Hunt & Workshop at HealthZone by ing the Group Registration Form (see next slide) to HealthZone 2.Send your students for the Health Trooper Hunt & Workshop. 3.Supervise their completion of the tests, individual assignments or CCIP. 4.Submit name list of students who have completed the respective badges by stipulated deadlines (see slide 14). Reuse the Group Registration Form for this.

What is the Group Registration Form? Use the Group Registration Form to register for your visit to HealthZone (hunt and workshop). Available dates and times are indicated in the 2 nd spreadsheet. If you are unable to make it for the dates/times on the form, please for alternative dates/times. Reuse this form to the names of students who have completed the respective badge to

What topics are covered under the programme? JUNIOR HEALTH TROOPER BADGE Physical Activity P.A. requirement for children Benefits of being physically active Safety tips Nutrition Healthy Diet Pyramid Different food groups Nutrition requirement for children Personal Hygiene Infectious diseases Preventing spread of infectious diseases Importance of personal hygiene Personal hygiene tips

What topics are covered under the programme? STAR HEALTH TROOPER BADGE Physical Activity Being physically active can be fun Making physical activity fun Weaving physical activity into your daily life Nutrition Snacking healthily What are wholegrains Benefits of wholegrains Mental Health Treasuring and managing relationships with others Smoking & Health What’s in a cigarette? Harmful effects of smoking How to say ‘no’ to smoking

What topics are covered under the programme? DYNAMITE HEALTH TROOPER BADGE Physical Activity P.A. requirement for youths Benefits of being physically active Safety tips Planning a P.A. timetable Nutrition Making healthier choices when eating out Reading the nutritional panel Healthy Diet Pyramid Mental Health Good and bad stress Managing stress Coping with peer pressure

What topics are covered under the programme? WARRIOR HEALTH TROOPER BADGE Physical Activity Tips to continue being physically active Goal-setting, endurance & determination Nutrition What is my ideal weight? Maintaining a healthy weight Losing weight safely and healthily Mental Health Managing emotional stress Smoking & Health What’s in a cigarette? Harmful effects of smoking How to say ‘no’ to smoking Penalties of underage smoking

What topics are covered under the programme? SUPREME HEALTH TROOPER BADGE Physical Activity Being physically active for life Understanding your comfort zone and breaking from it Nutrition Making healthier choices when eating out Preparing convenient, simple and healthy packed meals Mental Health Managing anger Lifestyle & Diseases Effects of inappropriate dietary habits in the long run Common myths and the truths of excessive eating and inappropriate dieting

Timeline for Health Trooper Badge Programme 2011 BadgeVisit to HZDeadline for completion of test Deadline for completion of assignments Deadline for completion of CCIP JuniorJul31 Aug-- StarAug-31 Oct- DynamiteMar30 Apr-- WarriorApr-30 Jun- SupremeJul--31 Jul Test & Assignments need not be submitted to HealthZone. For the tests, Guiders will need to the test results using the Group Registration Form to For the assignments, Guiders will need to the names of students who have completed all the assignments using the Group Registration Form to For the CCIP, students will need to submit a group report (template provided by HPB) to

I have a question. Who can I contact? If you would like to register for the Health Trooper Badge Programme contact: HealthZone, Ms Grace Seah at Tel: or If you have any questions regarding the Health Trooper Badge Programme, contact: The HealthZone Team at or Ms Grace Seah at or