The Wellbeing Curriculum: Embedding children’s wellbeing in primary schools: Andrew Cowley: Bloomsbury Education

The Wellbeing Curriculum

Embedding children’s wellbeing in primary schools

The Wellbeing Curriculum

Embedding children’s wellbeing in primary schools

Description

Andrew Cowley, author of The Wellbeing Toolkit and co-founder of Healthy Toolkit (@HealthyToolkit), presents the ultimate guide to help primary schools develop a practical, principled and values-driven wellbeing curriculum for their pupils.

Schools are responsible for giving children the tools and emotional resilience to cope with the changes and challenges they will face in the future. Developing a comprehensive wellbeing curriculum for primary-aged children is crucial: when taught how to make good life choices and care for their physical and mental health, children will thrive both at primary school and beyond.

The Wellbeing Curriculum covers a range of issues from self-awareness, looking after others and building trust, to exercise, healthy eating, cyberbullying, leadership, diversity and empowerment. It offers practical ideas for embedding a wellbeing curriculum in lessons, assemblies, PSHE and RSE sessions and as part of the school ethos. This is the must-have book for schools looking to adapt their pastoral approach, and put pupil wellbeing at the heart of the curriculum.

Additional online resources for the book can be found at www.bloomsburyonlineresources.com/the-wellbeing-curriculum.

Product details

Published	14 Oct 2021
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	224
ISBN	9781472986412
Imprint	Bloomsbury Education
Dimensions	234 x 156 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

As we all emerge from living through a pandemic, it is imperative that children grow up equipped with a range of skills and tools that will enable them to navigate their way through a “new normal” and feel nurtured, supported, guided and empowered. Andrew Cowley's comprehensive and holistic toolkit offers a rich and powerful wellbeing curriculum, which should sit at the heart of the ethos of every school as they support children and young people.

Sue Atkins, author of 'The Can Do Kid's Journal' and parenting expert for the BBC, ITV's This Morning and Disney Junior UK, @SueAtkins
A helpful, information-packed guide, full of practical advice and well-explained reasons for how and why to put wellbeing at the centre of your classroom practice.

Rich Simpson, deputy headteacher and founder of #kindnessripple, @richreadalot
It is refreshing to read a book that tackles the significance of pupil wellbeing in such an accessible way. The book's attention to wellbeing and character is of particular importance if we want to enable young people to flourish.

Michael Fullard, Research Fellow, Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, University of Birmingham, @MikeFullard
The Wellbeing Curriculum is rich with ideas for the primary classroom that are meaningful, practical and innovative. Andrew's passion for wellbeing glows like a beacon of hope throughout and it will be a book that I will turn to again and again.

Georgina Tait, primary teacher, mental health first aider and director of JustTeachUK
The Wellbeing Toolkit and The Wellbeing Curriculum are absolute game-changers and a must-read for anyone working in education.

John Magee, author of 'Kindness Matters' and 'The Happy Tank', @KindnessCoach_
Andrew has done it again. An absolutely fabulous book that will help any school to design a curriculum to promote and support the wellbeing of all. A must read for any educator.

Toria Bono, primary teacher and founder of Tiny Voice Talks, @Toriaclaire