Wellbeing Journals

Dear Parents,

As you may have discovered, your child’s booklist included a Wellbeing Journal. It is a collection of weekly student driven activities to build their mindfulness, character strengths, elements of wellbeing and growth mindsets. The Journals focus on students self-assessing, setting self-expectations and being grateful for the positives they experience.

Developing Skills and Competencies

Positive Education involves intentionally and explicitly teaching young people how to develop the skills and competencies to grow their brain’s abilities, called the cognitive domain while at the same time teaching them how to acquire the skills of social-emotional resilience, called the non-cognitive domain so that they can live a fulfilling and meaningful life.

Positive Emotions + Gratitude

Being in charge of your emotions through your strengths. Developing the aspects of emotional literacy and making a positive difference using your signature character strengths.

Engagement + Mindfulness

Connecting mindfully with yourself and the present moment. Developing the capacity to pay attention to what you need to pay attention to.

Relationships + Empathy

Showing others matter by doing good to feel good, feeling good to do good and being respectful. Looking to the future with optimism and hope.

Meaning + Purpose

Being passionate about something larger than yourself, doing the right thing and doing the thing right to make a positive difference in your world.

Accomplishment + Optimism

Adopting growth mindsets to deliberately practise more difficult approaches to grow your brain’s abilities so that you can achieve what you set out to do.

Health + Strengths

Having a healthy body and healthy mind by being regularly active, eating fresh whole foods and looking for what’s good in your life.

As we are implementing this home/school program for the first time, we ask that you take the time to explore the concepts of this journal with your child.

We will be addressing the skills and competencies of the program in class on a weekly basis. You will notice that there is a diary element to record reading or important notices, however the wellbeing concepts are to be addressed at home, together with family or guardians.

Enjoy the meaningful conversations with your child.

Thank you.

IPS Wellbeing Team