The ‘new normal’ is whatever you are creating as your current daily routines and habits. The New Zealand government has promoted being active to support positive hauora | wellbeing, and many people have embraced this recommendation. Communities are seeing a rise in the number of people talking daily walks to contribute to their taha tinana | physical dimension of hauora. This is likely to be the result of having more down time as well as other recreational options being inaccessible during the lockdown.

The challenge for us as a society is to support the continued focus on taha tinana and to embrace ways to remain physically active in order to contribute to positive hauora | wellbeing. What role do we as educators play and how can we help to fuel student’s interest in supporting taha tinana |physical dimension of wellbeing, as part of their daily routines?