Welcome to Well-Being - Book C - First Class - Feeling Good with Mo & Ko - Pupil Book - New/Revised Edition

Welcome to Well-Being - Book C - First Class - Feeling Good with Mo & Ko - Pupil Book - New/Revised Edition

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 C: Feeling Good with Mo & Ko!

Specific Aims of Well-Being – Book C:

1. To increase children’s understanding of the following 16 emotions (many of which are explored at previous levels) grouped in the image of a Feelings Wheel under the following 4 headings:
   • Happy – calm, proud, excited and confident
   • Sad – disappointed, lonely, miserable and embarrassed
   • Angry – annoyed, jealous, furious and frustrated
   • Afraid – worried, terrified, anxious and frightened
2. To encourage children to accept and express all of their emotions in a positive way and to understand that emotions show us what is important to us
3. To provide children with the opportunity to up-regulate the following positive emotions:
   • Pride
   • Calm
   • Gratitude
   • Joy
   • Love
   • Interest
   • Hope
4. To provide children with the opportunity to regulate and express strong feelings
5. To introduce children to the idea of Character Strengths such as bravery, love, kindness, fairness, gratitude, zest, perseverance and teamwork
6. To promote feelings of self-confidence, self-compassion and self-worth through the concept of being ‘good enough’
7. To promote resilience and self-efficacy through giving children strategies to deal with their strong emotions and everyday problems
8. To develop pro-social relationships through encouraging empathy, acts of kindness and appropriate expression of emotions
9. To give children the opportunity to explore the links between their physical, mental, social and emotional well-being through the concept of developing awareness of their physical energy and how they can influence it

Lessons in Book C:

• Lesson 1: We all belong
• Lesson 2: We can name our feelings
• Lesson 3: We can express our feelings
• Lesson 5: We can change our energy
• Lesson 6: We can do hard things
• Lesson 7: We are good enough
• Lesson 8: We care and share
• Lesson 9: We can solve our problems
• Lesson 10: It’s good to be us