A health promoting school is one that constantly strengthens its capacity as a healthy setting for living, learning and working.A health promoting school:Fosters health and learning with all the measures at its disposal. Engages health and education officials, teachers, teachers' unions, students, parents, health providers and community leaders in efforts to make the school a healthy place. Strives to provide a healthy environment, school health education, and school health services along with school/community projects and outreach, health promotion programmes for staff, nutrition and food safety programmes, opportunities for physical education and recreation, and programmes for counselling, social support and mental health promotion