This week Life Education has parked itself outside Te Rito Harakeke - Marshland School to help take our Toroa learners on a tour of the inside of the human body.

Toroa students have had the opportunity to imagine a whole other world inside their bodies, both within the classroom and with the help of their good friend Harold the Giraffe in the Life Ed learning caravan.

Always excited to see Harold again, everyone quickly enjoyed the opportunity to identify and map out the organs and their functions within both the circulatory and central nervous systems in our bodies. Harold helped them identify why it is important to consider how these systems function when making decisions around our daily exercise and consumption of nutrients; building a better understanding of the impact these actions have on the various parts of our body.

In the classroom students have been taking a deeper dive into these subjects, looking at what may result when parts of these systems are damaged for any reason and how we can help protect and strengthen them, such as by maintaining a balanced diet to promote good intestinal health, and modifying various sports to protect our spinal column.

Toroa students got to map the circulatory system with its many highways of flowing veins throughout our body on life size drawings, adding organs and details around their functions bit by bit, aiming to have a complete map of our essential organs and their networks. This was further supported in their reading and writing programs, guiding students through the morphology of new scientific terms as well as building new knowledge around the functions of our various body parts.