Wellbeing

Back to school lessons to support student wellbeing

As students return to school, their prolonged absence will have impacted on their learning, wellbeing and overall connection to school.  These lessons have been specially designed for use within the SPHE class during the first weeks of term. 

The lessons aim to

1. help students to re-connect with school and with each other
2. enable students to reflect upon the impact of COVID-19 on their wellbeing and on their learning
3. develop skills, attitudes and dispositions needed for re-engaging successfully in learning.
    

• Back to school lessons for first years
• Back to school lessons for second/third years
• Back to school lessons for fifth/sixth years

Considerations in planning for Junior Cycle Wellbeing 2020-21 will support planning for the coming school year in response to the unique circumstances that have arisen.

• SPHE short course
• PE short course
• CSPE short course

In these short videos, school leaders and teachers talk about how they have planned for Junior Cycle Wellbeing in their schools.

How teaching, learning and assessment happens matters for student wellbeing.

• Click here for ideas on how to support student wellbeing through formative assessment
• Click here for ideas on how to develop the key skills, including the skill of staying well

• Wellbeing and Post Primary schooling - a review of the literature
• Title: A Human Development Framework (PSP) for orienting education and schools in the space of Wellbeing by Maeve O Brien and Andrew O Shea (2017)

• JCT Wellbeing
• JCT Short Courses
• PDST

A Negotiated Curriculum and Wellbeing - 10 step process