The Young & Healthy Virtual Adventure is evolving.....

into the Power Up Virtual Adventure!

After eight years of impact in schools across Aotearoa, the Young and Healthy Virtual Adventure is evolving into the Power Up Virtual Adventure.

The change reflects a simple idea: the Virtual Adventure has always been more than just an event. It has become a way of helping children build habits that support their energy, wellbeing and learning every day.

Over the past eight years, more than 180,000 tamariki have taken part in the Virtual Adventure through schools across New Zealand.

Along the way, we’ve seen something incredibly encouraging. The Virtual Adventure has helped bring a fun focus to the work that many schools are doing to support the health and wellbeing of their students. Using a little bit of technology, it has brought many of those ideas together in a way that children can easily understand, implement, remember and share beyond the classroom.

• Teachers have embedded the concepts into learning,

• Children have taken them home,

• Families have started adopting the habits together.

These ripple effects have shown that the Virtual Adventure can help extend the great work happening in schools into homes and communities.

That’s where the Power Up Virtual Adventure comes in.

Power Up provides a simple language and framework that helps children understand their energy and take small actions that support their amazing brain and body to move, play, learn and thrive.

At the centre of the experience is a framework children can use anywhere:

• Check In – How am I feeling?

• Choose – What do I need right now?

• Power Up – Take a simple action that helps me feel better.

This simple check-in helps children tune in to their body and brain, respond to what they need, and build routines that support movement, play, learning and wellbeing.

For schools, Power Up acts as a supporting framework that helps reinforce the great wellbeing work teachers are already doing, while giving children a simple idea they can easily remember and share with their families.

The long-term goal is to build a wellbeing culture that extends beyond the classroom, helping children build the energy, focus and habits they need to learn and thrive, now and in the future.

We are incredibly grateful to the teachers, schools and partners like Zespri, ASICS, Opal Packaging and the Wright Family Foundation who have supported the Virtual Adventure over the years and helped it reach so many young people across Aotearoa.

Helping children build the daily habits that power their, energy, brain and body.  

The same program you know and love, now with a stronger focus on building sustainable, shareable daily habits that support long-term wellbeing, at school and home!