The Wellington Well-Being Course: The 6 Strands.

Well-being lessons are currently taught to students in Years 9 to 11 (our 3^rd, 4^th and 5^th Forms). The course is based upon 6 strands of well-being, which are as follows:

1. Physical Health: this covers information on the foundations of well-being: keeping ourselves physically healthy.

2. Positive Relationships: this aspect of the course explores what is arguably the most important aspect of well-being, namely our relationships with other people.

3. Perspective: this part of the course is concerned with building a 'psychological immune system', or grit and resilience. It aims to help develop the thinking skills that enable us to overcome adversity.

4. Strengths: this element of the course is concerned with finding out our character strengths and abilities and looking at ways of employing our character strengths in everyday life.

5. The World: this strand is concerned with looking at ways of living sustainably in a conspicuous consumer society and considering our place in the world and what our relationship to it might be.

6. Meaning and Purpose: this final aspect of the course is concerned with exploring meaning-making, which is a central aspect of working out, as Viktor Frankl would say, our response to the questions life asks of us.

The 4th Form students cover Physical Health, 3 lessons on Positive Relationships and the Perspective unit.

The 5th Form students cover The World, 3 lessons on Positive Relationships, Strengths and Meaning and Purpose.