STRENGTH

This Lesson: The Wellbeing Learning Intention is for you to learn about how your own thoughts, words and actions affect your wellbeing, and the lessons and activities in this journal to help make them positive. Reflection: how aware are you about how positive you are thinking?

1. Both in class and at home, enjoy doing the lessons and activities to feel yourself learning more and more about how to create your best self.

2. About 40% of your wellbeing is based on how positive you are living and thinking. The more you look on the bright side of life, the more you will be tuned into and enjoy doing what you are doing.

3. Each week in this journal, there is a PERMAH+ lesson, one of eight Wellbeing and Thinking activities, being grateful, and the daily and weekly Big Five Check In (see below).

These are also on the website www.learningcurve.com.au as interactive activities, plus the interesting Resilient Wellbeing

Tool Box in the Primary Wellbeing section.

Events in life 10%WHAT INFLUENCES WELLBEING?WHAT AFFECTS MY WELLBEING?

Daily thoughts, words & actions 40% Genetics 50%

RESILIENT WELLBEING TOOLBOX – PRIMARY

PRACTISING KEYSTONE HABITS TO CULTIVATE A RESILIENT STATE OF WELLBEING IN STUDENTS OPTIMISM & HOPE

What am I looking forward to most this week? wellbeing focus

To become determined, I will write down the goals I want to achieve for myself. EMPATHY & relationships

What could I do to show empathy for the needs and feelings of others?

growth MINDSET

I will think about what I’m doing to build my best possible self every day? flexible THINKING

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” Robert Kennedy sense of purpose

What things are the Musts and what are the Options in my life?

SELF-CONTROL

I will put a positive message to myself on my pillow each day. mindful me

What is something that I am grateful to my family for? GRATITUDE JOURNAL

What things went well that I am grateful for? MINDFULNESS ACTIVITY

the good stuff

Describe times in your life when you felt great joy, real pride and total fulfilment in what you did. GRATITUDE WEEK

Think about the little things you already have in your life that you are grateful for, not the things you want; what would happen if they weren’t there? And think about the many kind acts others do for you, without you asking; do you say thank you? Choosing to show gratitude builds everyone’s wellbeing. This week make Gratitude Walls both in your classroom and at home for your class and your family to write down or draw things they are grateful for and what they said to say thank you.

This Week’s Gratitudes: This week write down or draw little things that you are grateful for and kind things others did for you that you are grateful for and then say thank you to them. Also, who was grateful for your efforts this week? RESPECTFUL RELATIONSHIPS

With a classmate discuss – what does respectful mean and what are the important things which make up a respectful relationship for you?

“It is not happiness that brings us gratitude. It is gratitude that brings us happiness.” Anon PRIMARY PERMAH+ REFLECTION – PRIMARY

PERMAH+ Topic: WHAT ARE YOU LIKE? PERMAH+ Element: RELATIONSHIPS + EMPATHY

Fabulous First Five Minutes: explore a person at school you look up to because they are kind and caring.

PERMAH+ Reflection: What are three positive personal descriptors (see page 131) that you would like others to think of when they meet you?

Empathy Feeling – What types of body language send negative messages to others about you?

How could the resilience skill, Self-Belief, help you to do this? (refer page 123 of the planner)

PERMAH+ Bonus: MINDFULNESS TIME

Character Imaginations. If you had a choice of any character you could be in a book, movie or TV show, who would you be and describe why.

Mindful Maze

Character Strength: use LOVE OF LEARNING to do

LEARNING STRENGTHS

Describe a time you used this strength well.

How did you feel this week?

Gratitude Journal: What went well that you were grateful for?

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4. Each weekly PERMAH+ lesson is broken up into:

WHY? – the learning intention for what you are about to explore and discover to create your best self.

HOW? – ways in which you can practise what you learn to make them habits.

DO? – questions to answer which enable you to use what you have learnt to create your best self.

5. The Big Five are what you need to do and be aware of to stay healthy. Enjoy seeing how you are going every day by filling in the sections for:

Feeling positive ?/5; Exercising ? minutes; Sleeping ? hours; Eating healthy ?/5; Drinking water ?/litres.

Big Five Check In:

Colour in how well you went.

Feel positive Exercise daily Sleep well Eat healthy Drink water

Acknowledgement: Sonja Lyubomirsky & Tal Ben Shahar