Recently all the Year 9 students were part of a BRAVE programme with their Health classes.

This programme was sparked by on offer from AJ Hackett Bungy for a bungy jump for the student, alongside a Health unit that teaches about human stress responses and ways of managing ourselves during stressful events.

The students learned about the importance of recognising stress responses in our bodies and then also learned ways of managing themselves. The final test was a class trip to the Kawarau Bungy Bridge to put our strategies into action.

The challenge was by individual choice and the students could choose what level of challenge they participated in. For some it was completing the bungy jump, for others it was something else. All of us involved in this unit of work got a lot out of it. We are so grateful to AJ Hackett Bungy for the opportunity to do this and are extremely proud of all the students who learned a lot from this Health unit.