Beulah Adventist Primary School in Tonga was in the international spotlight earlier in September when a delegation of South Pacific government leaders paid a visit to see the impact on students of the Health Promoting Schools (HPS) program.
Visitors to the Tongan school included Australia’s assistant mental health minister Emma McBride; New Zealand’s associate health minister Aupito William Sio; and Palau’s health minister Gaafar Uherbelau. They were in Tonga for the 15th Pacific Health Ministers Meeting.
The HPS project is a partnership between the Tongan Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education and Training, supported by funding from the World Health Organization.
To monitor progress in each school, educators are using a School-Based Assessment and Monitoring (SBAM) tool, with achievements categorized as gold, silver, or bronze under three priority areas.
The original version of this story was posted by Adventist Record.