The Welcome to Well-Being whole-school programme is designed to enhance children’s well-being across all dimensions – social, emotional, spiritual, physical and mental. Enhancing children’s well-being can lead to a wide variety of other successful outcomes, including improved academic performance, stronger relationships, and greater resilience. (Waters, 2011; Park & Peterson, 2008).
The theme of the Welcome to Well-Being programme is that two little aliens called Mo and Ko arrive from the planet Zo to help children to feel happy, strong, kind and brave, loving and well. Each week they introduce children to a new idea and they set a challenge for the children to try it out for a week – at home as well as at school. By default, the characters Mo & Ko are gender-neutral – but a gender-specific edition is also available (for gender-specific versions, please order HERE).
Each level includes a Teacher Guide that provides 10 structured lessons with clear teaching guidance and engaging classroom activities. Accompanying the Teacher Guide is a comprehensive Digital Companion Page (DCP) containing PowerPoints for every lesson, videos, posters, additional classroom resources and more. The accompanying but separate Pupil Activity Book allows children to record their reflections and develop a personal portfolio of their strengths, while a parental pull-out guide explains each week’s learning and encourages home–school connection.
Welcome to Well-Being – BOOK A: Meet Mo & Ko!
Specific Aims of Book A:
- To increase children’s understanding of specific emotions including happiness, sadness, anger, pride and bravery
- To encourage children to accept and express all of their emotions in a positive way
- To provide children with the opportunity to up-regulate the following positive emotions – joy, happiness, gratitude, serenity (calm), pride and humour
- To provide students with the opportunity to regulate and express their feelings of sadness and anger
- To promote feeling of self-confidence and self-worth
- To promote self-efficacy through giving children strategies to deal with their strong emotions
- To develop pro-social relationships through encouraging acts of kindness and appropriate expression of emotions
Lessons in Book A:
- Lesson 1: It’s good to be me
- Lesson 2: All feelings are OK
- Lesson 3: I’m ready for my big feelings
- Lesson 4: Spread happiness – You can try this lesson for free
- Lesson 5: It’s cool to be calm
- Lesson 6: It’s OK to feel sad
- Lesson 7: I’m proud of myself
- Lesson 8: It’s OK to feel angry
- Lesson 9: I can be brave
- Lesson 10: It’s good to be me
The three levels in the Welcome to Well-Being programme are:
- Welcome to Well-Being: Book A: Meet Mo & Ko (for Ages: 4.5 to 5.5+)
- Welcome to Well-Being: Book B: Good to be Me with Mo & Ko (for Ages: 5.5 to 6.5+)
- Welcome to Well-Being: Book C: Feeling Good with Mo & Ko (for Ages: 6.5 to 7.5+)
Each level consists of:
- Teacher Resource Book which comes with a comprehensive Digital Companion Page containing Lesson Plans, PowerPoints, videos, online games & activities, classroom posters, supplementary activities, a self-assessment tool and much more.
- Pupil Book (including activities for each lesson, homework activity and a pull-out parent/guardian/carer guide to encourage support and involvement at home)
- Poster Pack: 10 x A3 (420mm x 297 mm) posters, printed on card and stored in a polythene sleeve for safekeeping. These are the same posters (but larger and printed on high-quality, silk-finish, 300 g/sm card) that are included in the back of the Teacher Resource Book and on the corresponding Digital Companion Page.
You can LOOK INSIDE the books to see their content by selecting either the teacher book or pupil book option from the dropdown menu above. The look inside feature will appear under the dropdown menu
Schools (in Ireland only) may order FREE SAMPLES of the Welcome to Well-Being Pupil books by clicking HERE.
About the Author:
Fiona Forman is an author, speaker and ‘Well-being in Education‘ consultant with an M.Sc. in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of East London. A former teacher with over 30 years’ experience, she is dedicated to placing well-being at the centre of school life. Fiona is the author or co-author of several widely used well-being whole-school programmes , including Welcome to Well-Being (lower primary), Weaving Well-Being (middle to upper primary), Wired for Well-Being (lower to middle secondary) and Tools to Thrive (middle to upper secondary). Since founding ‘Fiona Forman Well-Being‘ in 2020, she has delivered courses and talks in schools, teacher education colleges, in the media and at conferences. As a mother of two young adults, she is passionate about supporting young people to thrive. Her parenting book, Braver than You Believe: A Parent’s Guide to Building Children’s Resilience using Positive Psychology Skills, was published in 2022. More information on Fiona can be found HERE.
More information on the Welcome to Well-Being programme is available on the Welcome to Well-Being Homepage.
