Last week I was fortunate enough to go a PLD session on Well-being, which was run by Susannah Steven from the UC child well-being institute. (9 August 2019)
She was fantastic in that everything she shared with us was evidence based. I took several things away from this PLD day.
The first was that feeling good - the presense of contentment, happiness and feeling like you are able to engage with life and functioning well - feeling of being in control, maintaining positive relationships, being satisfied and having a sense of purpose need to be run at the same time. You can not build up one, without having the other.
She talked a lot a bout the state of well-being being a process. This in turn should be changing how we view the health curriculum here at school. Health should be viewed in a holistic sense, it is not just the physiological body. If we view health holistically it will change the way it looks in the community.
Susannah also referred lots to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. We can not expect greatness from our students if the basic needs are not being meet.
I was thinking about out Health and PE programme and thought about how we can best use the subject area to increase our students well-being, and what changes we can make to address this.
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