Irish Teacher: Wellbeing in schools? Let's provide proper facilities instead

Jennifer Horgan: "here we are in 2023, moving backwards, not forwards"

Here’s an idea. Let’s talk a little less about wellbeing in curricula, and provide proper facilities instead.

I love words and I pay attention to them. I recognise when they’re being used to distract and conceal. Wellbeing is one such word. Any teacher can give a wellbeing lesson to tick a box. We can lecture young people on the importance of a balanced diet and regular exercise. We can stay up late at night finding the best images, the most impactful statistics to really make that PowerPoint pop. But a smug ‘job done’ attitude won’t lessen the sobering reality – that a class is sitting down for yet another hour instead of, I don’t know, moving around a bit.