Nutrition for Wellbeing July
This course aims to support you in enhancing your own wellbeing, by learning how to nourish your body and mind with delicious, easy and nutritious recipes. It will support your teaching of Nutrition in SPHE and the promotion of wellbeing in your school. In Nutrition for Wellbeing, we will explore the science behind nutrition and how to use food to enhance your mood and energy levels. We will explore a variety of resources and initiatives that will support you in teaching children about nutrition and healthy eating through the SPHE curriculum, which will equip them with key skills and knowledge to enable them to confidently make healthier life choices. You will learn how to support children in growing and preparing food at school and how to prepare a Healthy Eating Policy for your school. We will also explore a wide range of healthy lunch recipes for the busy teacher, and you will be invited to make some delicious, nutritious high energy snacks to bring with you to school!
This course aims to:
- Enhance teachers’ understanding of the concept of healthy eating in order to support them in promoting wellbeing in the primary school.
- Support teachers in teaching about nutrition and healthy eating through the SPHE curriculum, using a range of resources including the Walk Tall programme and resources from the HSE, in order to equip children with key skills and knowledge which will enable them to confidently make healthier life choices.
- Enable teachers to support children in growing and preparing food at school through a variety of initiatives and resources, including Food Dudes, Incredible Edibles, and Safefood Tastebuds.
- Enhance teacher wellbeing by encouraging participants to prepare healthy lunches for themselves through the provision of quick and easy recipes for the busy teacher.
- Enable schools to support healthy eating practices by preparing a Healthy Eating Policy.
- Raise awareness of the Wellbeing Policy Statement and Framework for Practice as a means of engaging schools in the planning, implementation and evaluation of health-related activities under the school self-evaluation process.
Nutrition for Wellbeing August
This course aims to support you in enhancing your own wellbeing, by learning how to nourish your body and mind with delicious, easy and nutritious recipes. It will support your teaching of Nutrition in SPHE and the promotion of wellbeing in your school. In Nutrition for Wellbeing, we will explore the science behind nutrition and how to use food to enhance your mood and energy levels. We will explore a variety of resources and initiatives that will support you in teaching children about nutrition and healthy eating through the SPHE curriculum, which will equip them with key skills and knowledge to enable them to confidently make healthier life choices. You will learn how to support children in growing and preparing food at school and how to prepare a Healthy Eating Policy for your school. We will also explore a wide range of healthy lunch recipes for the busy teacher, and you will be invited to make some delicious, nutritious high energy snacks to bring with you to school!
This course aims to:
- Enhance teachers’ understanding of the concept of healthy eating in order to support them in promoting wellbeing in the primary school.
- Support teachers in teaching about nutrition and healthy eating through the SPHE curriculum, using a range of resources including the Walk Tall programme and resources from the HSE, in order to equip children with key skills and knowledge which will enable them to confidently make healthier life choices.
- Enable teachers to support children in growing and preparing food at school through a variety of initiatives and resources, including Food Dudes, Incredible Edibles, and Safefood Tastebuds.
- Enhance teacher wellbeing by encouraging participants to prepare healthy lunches for themselves through the provision of quick and easy recipes for the busy teacher.
- Enable schools to support healthy eating practices by preparing a Healthy Eating Policy.
- Raise awareness of the Wellbeing Policy Statement and Framework for Practice as a means of engaging schools in the planning, implementation and evaluation of health-related activities under the school self-evaluation process.
Sensory Play July
This innovative, reflective course aims to enhance and support teaching and learning in the junior/senior infant classrooms and in special education.
We are all sensory beings! We make sense of the world through our senses. We learn through our senses. The course is PACKED with simple, fun achievable ideas, tools, tips, advice and resources to empower your teaching.
Sensory play has countless benefits including the development of gross and fine motor skills, supporting language development, problem solving skills and social interaction.
Sensory play is important for brain development. This course will inform participants about our 8 sensory systems, and give ideas about how to support regulation in children; so they can reach the learning brain effectively.
Participants will learn about fidgeting, sensory play activities and sensory-based learning to enhance literacy and numeracy lessons. Participants will acquire information on valuable resources that will make sensory play part of your daily routine to support literacy and numeracy. This course will be experiential, reflective, interesting, exciting and fun
Sensory Play August
This innovative, reflective course aims to enhance and support teaching and learning in the junior/senior infant classrooms and in special education.
We are all sensory beings! We make sense of the world through our senses. We learn through our senses. The course is PACKED with simple, fun achievable ideas, tools, tips, advice and resources to empower your teaching.
Sensory play has countless benefits including the development of gross and fine motor skills, supporting language development, problem solving skills and social interaction.
Sensory play is important for brain development. This course will inform participants about our 8 sensory systems, and give ideas about how to support regulation in children; so they can reach the learning brain effectively.
Participants will learn about fidgeting, sensory play activities and sensory-based learning to enhance literacy and numeracy lessons. Participants will acquire information on valuable resources that will make sensory play part of your daily routine to support literacy and numeracy. This course will be experiential, reflective, interesting, exciting and fun
Therapeutic Art in Education
This course will provide teachers with practical therapeutic art techniques for their own enhanced wellbeing and for use in the classroom. We will explore art making for wellbeing with experiential exercises, self-reflection and resources that demonstrate the therapeutic benefits of art making. Art making techniques and exercises will be linked to the visual art curriculum strands throughout and the course will equip teachers with knowledge and understanding in how to incorporate a more creative and holistic approach to art making in the classroom. We will also explore our own relationship with art making and engage in art making activities in each module.
Materials Required:
So you don't necessarily need any fancy art materials but you will need a few bits to keep you going. A lot of these are just the basics but it gives you an idea of the kind of thing you'll need as you go forward and throughout the course.
- Coloured pencils/markers/pastels/chalks
- Paints - whatever works best for you - watercolour/acrylic/oil/poster etc.
- Paper and card of various colours and sizes
- Cardboard - old recyclable boxes are great for this
- Natural materials - anything you can gather from outside - feathers, pebbles, leaves, twigs, flowers, sand
- Glue - whatever works for you - pritt stick/pva etc.
- String/wool/wire/elastic/thread
- Material/scraps/felt etc.
- Recyclable materials such as empty tubs, tubes and cartons
- Old newspaper
- Scissors
- Pens/pencils
- Sellotape/masking tape
Wellness and Self-Care for Teachers July
A range of practical wellbeing strategies are presented including: nutrition, hydration, sleep, yoga, meditation, mindfulness, time-management, creativity, outdoor therapy and goal setting. You will be enabled to come to a greater understanding of the concept of self-care, become more aware of your own self-care needs and take steps to enhance your sense of wellness. A wide variety of templates, tools and resources are presented in the course which participants can use to coordinate staff wellbeing initiatives when they return to school. The services provided by Wellbeing Together as part of the Employee Assistance Service are explored in depth.
COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
This course will enable participants to:
- Understand the process of Wellbeing Promotion using the SSE process outlined in the Wellbeing Policy Statement and Framework for Practice
- Explore wellbeing from the teacher’s perspective and develop a toolkit for self-care.
- Examine, explore and discuss the ways in which teachers can focus on self-care practices that will enhance and maintain a positive sense of wellbeing
- Use a range of tools to enable teachers to develop self-awareness and knowledge, build life skills and develop a strong sense of connectedness to their school and their community.
- Explore the ways in which teachers can be as physically and emotionally well and healthy as they can be, by building their motivation and commitment to physical activity and informed lifestyle choices.
- Explore resources that can be used to support their wellbeing including the Employee Assistance Service – Wellbeing Together
Wellness and Self-Care for Teachers Aug
A range of practical wellbeing strategies are presented including: nutrition, hydration, sleep, yoga, meditation, mindfulness, time-management, creativity, outdoor therapy and goal setting. You will be enabled to come to a greater understanding of the concept of self-care, become more aware of your own self-care needs and take steps to enhance your sense of wellness. A wide variety of templates, tools and resources are presented in the course which participants can use to coordinate staff wellbeing initiatives when they return to school. The services provided by Wellbeing Together as part of the Employee Assistance Service are explored in depth.
COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
This course will enable participants to:
- Understand the process of Wellbeing Promotion using the SSE process outlined in the Wellbeing Policy Statement and Framework for Practice
- Explore wellbeing from the teacher’s perspective and develop a toolkit for self-care.
- Examine, explore and discuss the ways in which teachers can focus on self-care practices that will enhance and maintain a positive sense of wellbeing
- Use a range of tools to enable teachers to develop self-awareness and knowledge, build life skills and develop a strong sense of connectedness to their school and their community.
- Explore the ways in which teachers can be as physically and emotionally well and healthy as they can be, by building their motivation and commitment to physical activity and informed lifestyle choices.
- Explore resources that can be used to support their wellbeing including the Employee Assistance Service – Wellbeing Together