Mission statement: 

Haverhill Public Schools has a responsibility to foster a school environment that helps students learn and maintain lifelong healthy eating and lifestyle habits. Many factors play a role in achieving a healthy school environment, including food and beverages available to students while at school, nutrition education, opportunities for physical activity and other school-based programs and activities designed to promote student wellness. 

It is our common shared mission that all students, regardless of racial/ethnic background or economic condition or other dimension of identity or difference, receive equitable curricula, learning experiences and support that expand opportunities for growth and increasingly high levels of achievement particularly in the areas of health and wellness

The Goals of the Wellness Department:  

Align Standards and Practice and implement skills based learning

Implement Mental Health Literacy Grade 8 

Implement  Vaping lessons for Grade 4

Implement additional sex education lessons for grade 5-8

NAN Project collaboration

Update and continue to develop the HPS Wellness webpage & brochure

Further develop the Wellness Committee: focus nutrition, physical activity with students and update policy

Useful & proactive PD

Wellnesss Clubs in middle schools

WELCOME STAFF LETTER 2025-2026 

Staff List 2025-2026 

Understanding the new 2023 Massachusetts Comprehensive Health & Physical Education Frameworks 

Wellness Curriculum

National Health Standards

National Standards for Physical Education

National Standards for Physical Education

The Physical Education curriculum is aligned with both the Massachusetts Health Literacy Frameworks and the National Physical Education standards. Physical activity is critical to the development and maintenance of good health. The goal of physical education is to develop physically educated individuals who have the knowledge, skills, and confidence to enjoy a lifetime of healthful physical activity.

The national physical education standards address five essential areas of a physically educated individual:

Standard 1: The physically literate individual demonstrates competency in a variety of motor skills and movement patterns.

Standard 2: The physically literate individual applies knowledge of concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics related to movement and performance

Standard 3: The physically literate individual demonstrates the knowledge and skills to achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical activity and fitness.

Standard 4: The physically literate individual exhibits responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others.

Standard 5: The physically literate individual recognizes the value of physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and/or social interaction.