Wellbeing Team Leader 2018

Staff and student mental health and wellbeing has been a goal in the strategic plan for my current school (Beckenham). 

I lead the Wellbeing Team again in 2017, and loved scaffolding our student wellbeing leaders. 

My goal was to liaise with school leaders, and then lead a team (staff and students) to develop & promote the MH curriculum, at Beckenham, to help meet the increasingly diverse needs of students (Strategic Plan 2017). 

Over 2017, our Wellbeing team meet during lunchtimes and after school. Here are just some of our achievements: 
outcomes included: 
* Beckenham mental health & wellbeing overview revisited, developed and shared with staff. This is a living document we can add to in future. 

* Daily wellbeing notices for all students, using values-linked youtube clips, or student created role plays and movies

* Input from staff and community sort and a whole school Wellbeing definition was created  
(based on PERMA and Te Whare Tapa Wha). This is to be further developed in 2018.

* Beckenham's We Care Day held, for giving random acts of kindness to each other 

 

  

* Students, myself and two others created a presentation and shared this at the Term 3 Christchurch Health & Wellbeing Forum (run by Health Promoting Schools)

* Newsletter pieces each fortnight/month, sharing our wellbeing learning and activities with families

* Key classroom practise of Circle Time established as a weekly or fortnightly 'must do'  in each hub. This is our key method for teaching social and emotional skills. I created a staff survey on Circle Time PL needs to gather data in Term 1, and then ran a staff workshop with leadership suppport. 
Feedback from the workshop: 
'Thank you for such a well organised, informative and practical staff meeting. You were very good at facilitating  group discussions, remaining calm and reflective and keeping things moving. Much appreciated.' Sue