The Wirrpanda Foundation, which operates the Wirra Club program, promotes role models and healthy lifestyle choices for young Aboriginal people and disadvantaged students.

The Wirra Club program was piloted at Ngunnawal Primary School and Kingsford Smith School from July 2013 with promising results.

Program manager Melina Saunders said teachers reported higher attendance rates, behavioural improvements and improved understanding of healthy foods.

"Students understanding the importance of being healthy that Wirra Club has delivered has been very positive for our students," Ms Saunders said.

"The students enjoy going and have benefited socially and academically from the mentoring they get."

The pilot program has also led to closer engagement with students' families through barbecues and other social events.

The program is set to target 90 indigenous primary school-aged children at three ACT schools. It also indirectly targets children up to four by helping parents.

The aim was to reduce the incidence of overweight and obese Aboriginal children in Canberra, improve health and wellbeing through better eating habits and increase physical activity.

"We will provide our Wirra club participants with healthy snacks in each session to reinforce healthy eating, and encourage parents to prepare healthy meals for their families," she said.

Three ACT schools will be chosen to benefit from the program each year for the next three years.

The program will continue at Kingsford Smith School and Ngunnawal Primary School in 2015 with a third school yet to be confirmed.

The ACT government funding over the next three years comes from the Healthy Canberra Grants funding.