SSE Wellbeing

Wellbeing

SUMMARY OF OUR SELF-EVALUATION REPORT AND IMPROVEMENT PLAN January 2022

We undertook a teaching and learning evaluation of wellbeing in our school during the period April 2021 to June 2021.

We evaluated our progress using teacher professional dialogue, teaching observation and pupil assessment as our source of evidence under the following four areas from the wellbeing Policy Statement and Framework for Practice for wellbeing promotion:

This is what we did to find out what we were doing well, and what we could do better:

In general, the pupils’ knowledge and skills about wellbeing and for wellbeing are at a good standard in accordance with the objective, skills and concepts of the GMGY and SPHE Curriculums as observed by teachers in classes. However, on return from school closures as a result of the Covid 19 pandemic, teachers identified increased levels of anxiety and reduced levels of resilience and in some cases, social competence.
Pupils demonstrate high levels of interest and participate in learning during GMGY and SPHE lessons.

Wellbeing was selected as our focus area.

Our targets are:

This year our main achievements on the above targets are:

We planned, designed and resourced a sensory room in our school.
We reviewed our Code of Behaviour, which has the wellbeing of our pupils and staff as the central priority.
The core values within our Code of Behaviour are explicitly taught through SPHE and GMGY lessons.
All pupils were taught strategies for emotional regulation through the ‘Welcome to Wellbeing’ and ‘Weaving wellbeing’ programmes for the first 10 weeks of this year.
We developed a whole school plan for GMGY.
All staff received PDST training on Restorative practice

This is what you can do to help:

At home, parents can discuss the wellbeing activities in the wellbeing workbook with their children when the pupils are completing their wellbeing programme. Parents can help by reminding pupils of the coping strategies the pupils have learned at school to help their children should challenging situations occur at home.

2021 – 2022 Strategies and Lessons to Develop Emotional and Coping Skills

Room 1

Welcome to Wellbeing – Meet Mo and Ko!

1. It’s Good to be Me

2. All Feelings are OK

3. I’m ready for Big Feelings

4. Spread Happiness

5. It’s Cool to be Calm

6. It’s OK to Feel Sad

7. I’m Proud of Myself

8. It’s OK to Feel Angry

9. I can be Brave

10. It’s Good to be Me

Room 2

Welcome to Wellbeing – Feeling Good with Mo and Ko!

1. We all Belong

2. We can Name our Feelings

3. We can Express Feelings

4. We can Feel our Energy

5. We can Change Energy

6. We can do Hard Things

7. We are Good Enough

8. We Care and Share

9. We can Solve Problems

10. It’s Good to be Us

Room 3

Weaving Wellbeing – Resilience Workbook

● Mindfulness

● Using Character Strengths

● Cognitive re-framing

● Problem Focused Planning

● Healthy Distraction

● Perspective