Deputy Principal - Student Development & Wellbeing

Launch of Personal Wellbeing Practices

Today we launch an exciting whole school opportunity to focus on developing our young people’s personal wellbeing practices. Each week during 2022, every Home Room in the college will begin the week tuning into a personal wellbeing practice based on Positive Education. We will be utilising the resources provided through Unleashing Personal Potential (UPP). These weekly topics will allow us to  embed simple research-based practices into the minds of every student. 

According to UPP, positive education is designed to "assist our young people to flourish in a complex world". Improving our young people’s capacity to improve their educational wellbeing and to be effective and productive contributors to the world will sit hand in hand with the evidence that regards positive wellbeing  as an effective strategy to enhance learning.

Each of the 40 personal wellbeing practices are simple, concise, and relevant tools for all students and their teachers. Each week we will let you know through the college app what our Personal Wellbeing Practice is so that you can become part of the conversation that will be happening college-wide and we hope in the wider community. These practices will be visually represented on our electronic noticeboards and on posters throughout the school as a subtle reminder of the focus area for the week.

The first of our Personal Wellbeing Practices provides an overview of the six pillars of the PERMAH Framework offered by Martin Seligman in 2011.  The pillars form the framework under which all the practices fall. Each of the pillars is a gateway to greater wellbeing. They are: positive emotion; engagement; relationships; meaning; accomplishment; and Health. Today, students viewed an two-minute video and were then asked to consider which of the pillars they do really well and explain to a partner why they think this is their strongest element. 

To help develop a shared language around wellbeing practices we are inviting you to be part of the conversation. Each week we will provide quick information about the practice and a question that will link into the wellbeing practice that is being harnessed by the school. 

Today’s question is:

What did your young person reveal was their strongest pillar?

Let’s get on the same page and help our young people thrive!