The newly-trim educators want other schools in the capital to follow suit.

Deputy principal of wellbeing Sonja Marmont said the program had improved staff members' wellbeing and results had filtered down to students' activity habits.

"It's one of the only schools I've worked in where kids play at break time and they will ask to get sporting equipment out," she said.

Ms Marmont started at the school in term one, 2014, when she worked with Healthier Work ACT to plan out the program.

"Before I focused on the wellbeing of students I really needed to look at the wellbeing of our staff and to make sure they were happy and fitter," she said.

"We started off with a survey to identify needs, then had cooking challenges, we developed a cookbook, and we changed the focus of our morning tea, so we had a healthier morning tea."

Ms Marmont said running fitness competitions, between staff, faculties and students were at the heart of their program.

"The biggest focus was to increase physical activity through challenges. So the most recent was the pedometer challenge," she said.

The pedometer challenge, undertaken in early May, coincided with the school's cross country tournament.

"It was a parallel event to be something for staff and they had to rotate it around different staff in the faculty throughout the day and then clocked it up at the end," Ms Marmont said.

"That day we walked an extra 39 kilometres as a staff.

"Last year we started a boot camp for teachers with a personal trainer, so some people who hadn't exercised in years began exercising."

Principal Heather Paterson said it was vital teachers were healthy role models for students.

"Our teachers are role models, and our students watch us, from our physical fitness to our health and wellbeing," she said.

"All of these things flow on into the classroom. Now Sonja has talked to other schools about what they can do."

Campbell High School was the second ACT school to be recognised as a health promoting workplace by Healthier Work ACT.