Welcome to Well-Being: Teacher Book C

The Welcome to Well-Being programme is a multi-year programme for children from Junior Infants to First Class (Ages: 4-7+). It is designed to enhance children s well-being across all dimensions social, emotional, spiritual, physical and mental. Research has shown that enhancing children s well-being can lead to a wide variety of other successful outcomes including increased academic performance, better relationships and increased resilience. The programme is based on Positive Psychology, which is the science of well-being. It is designed to be implemented as part of the SPHE curriculum. The theme of the programme is that two small gender-neutral aliens called Mo and Ko have come from the planet Zo to help children to feel happy, strong, kind and brave, loving and well. Each week they introduce children to a new idea and they set a challenge for the children to try it out for the week at home as well as at school.