Nutrition for Wellbeing
Course Overview
Support your wellbeing with easy, nutritious recipes! Gain practical strategies to teach healthy living and lead whole-school wellbeing with confidence. Engaging, fun, new curriculum-aligned, and immediately applicable in your classroom.
Empower your teaching and transform pupil wellbeing with this engaging, interactive and fun summer course. Aligned with the Redeveloped Primary Curriculum 2026, this course deepens your understanding of healthy eating within the Wellbeing Specification while equipping you with practical, classroom-ready strategies.
Learn how to confidently teach nutrition through the Wellbeing Curriculum and SPHE, support children to develop the Being Well key competency by making healthy life choices, and bring food education to life through hands-on initiatives and free resources. You’ll also explore simple ways to enhance your own wellbeing, including quick, healthy meal ideas for busy teachers.
By the end of the course, you’ll be ready to lead whole-school healthy eating practices, develop effective policies, and embed wellbeing at the heart of your school community.
Practical, inspiring, and immediately applicable—perfect for teachers who want to make a lasting impact.Learning outcomes
- Explore the new Wellbeing Specification in the Redeveloped Primary Curriculum 2026
- Enhance the teachers understanding of nutrition and healthy eating to support effective teaching of nutrition and healthy eating through the new Wellbeing curriculum and SPHE.
- Empower children with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to make healthy life choices, fostering the key competency of Being Well.
- Enable teachers to support children in growing and preparing food through school-based initiatives and programmes.
- Promote teacher wellbeing through practical strategies, including preparing quick and healthy lunches.
- Support schools in developing and implementing a Healthy Eating Policy.
- Explore the Wellbeing Policy Statement and Framework for Practice to support planning, implementation, and evaluation of wellbeing initiatives within the school self-evaluation process (SSE).
About the Author
Ciara Delaney
Ciara is a primary school teacher seconded from Attyrory National School, Co. Roscommon, where she worked as a Mainstream Class Teacher with Special Duties.
Ciara joined the PDST as a Health and Wellbeing Advisor, providing support in the areas of Teacher Wellbeing, Children's Wellbeing, Physical Education (PE), Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE), Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE), Child Protection, Anti-Bullying and the revised Stay Safe programme.
Core elements of Ciara's role within the team was the design and development of the Move Well, Move Often Physical Literacy Resource for Primary Schools and the Introduction to Teacher Wellbeing workshops. Following this, Ciara was appointed to the role of Team Leader for the Primary Health and Wellbeing Team.
Enrolment
This course runs in two iterations as follows:
- First iteration: Wednesday 1st July - Friday 17th July.
- Second iteration: Monday 3rd August - Friday 21st August.
Registration is subject to availability.
Access to courses closes at 5pm on the final date for each iteration as stated above.
Please note that there is NO FACILITY to change between iterations or to extend the time available for course completion.
This course is approved for E.P.V. certification by the Department of Education
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