Success in the classroom comes with how students care for ourselves outside of it. To support this, students will be participating in a regular Wellbeing Review during their upcoming wellbeing lessons using The Healthy Minds Wellbeing Wheel.
The Wellbeing Wheel provides a practical framework for the self-management of personal wellbeing. By becoming effective self-managers of their own daily habits, young people create a strong foundation for good mental health. After all, wellbeing isn’t something that just happens to us; it is something we can actively monitor, adjust and improve through daily choices.
Once a term, students will use an interactive booklet and engage in guided classroom discussions to check in with themselves across six key areas of life. This is not a test with right or wrong answers, nor is it a competition or comparison against peers. Instead, the wheel acts as a personal map, helping each individual student track their own unique habits and recognise a need to adjust, seek support or implement practical strategies to stay balanced.
The 6 Domains
The Healthy Minds Wellbeing Wheel distills six evidence-based domains for students to reflect on:
- Primary Relationships: Evaluating personal connections with the people they live with or are closest to emotionally, ensuring they build encouraging, supportive networks.
- Biological Needs & Bodily Health: Managing physical fundamentals of daily life, including sleep, diet, hydration and monitoring sugar or caffeine intake to support stable energy and mood.
- Exercise & Movement: Taking charge of regular physical activity as a deliberate and profound tool for mood management, stress relief and long-term health.
- Fun, Interests & Social Life: Balancing responsibilities with conscious downtime, hobbies and social connections that allow the brain to recuperate and buffer stress.
- Psychological Skills: Developing internal tools for emotional self-regulation, helpful thinking, self-compassion and building the resilience to tolerate discomfort.
Values, Meaning & Purpose: Connecting daily actions to identity, exploring what personally motivates them and discovering what drives them each day.
During these lessons, students will score themselves from 1 to 10 in each category based on how they feel they are doing right now. The goal isn’t to achieve a perfect score, but to look at the big picture and take action. For stronger areas, they will identify the good habits they need to maintain; for less-developed areas, they will brainstorm small, realistic steps to lift that number.
By returning to this Wellbeing Review consistently each term, students will build the lifelong self-awareness needed to sustainably manage their personal wellbeing. We encourage you to ask your child about their Wellbeing Wheel check-in and chat about the small, positive habits they are choosing to focus on this term!
