Welcome to Wellbeing

As teachers we can do so much to nurture wellbeing from an early age by giving students the social, emotional and psychological skills they need to flourish. Welcome to wellbeing is a multi-year program for students in Kindergarten to Year 1. It is designed to enhance students’ wellbeing across all dimensions – social, emotional, spiritual, physical and mental. Enhancing student wellbeing can lead to a wide variety of other successful outcomes including including increased academic performance, better relationships and increased resilience (Waters, 2011; Park & Peterson, 2008).

The program follows two small gender-neutral aliens called Mo and Ko who have come from the planet Zo to help students to feel happy, strong, kind, brave, loving and well. Each week they introduce students to a new idea and set a challenge for students to try it out for the week – at home as well as at school. A pull-out guide for parents, guardians and carers is included in each student book to encourage support and involvement in the home.