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Presentation

Develop Presentation about HWB research; carry out a self-assessment of your work (3 hrs).

Working with a critical friend (peer), each person present five slides (must be pictures) that can be used to summarise a piece of research or a policy focus in the wider area of HWB.  The pair should decide and identify the assessment criteria that have to be used.  This should be displayed in your e-portfolio.  Write up a self-assessment of your presentation before you present it to your critical friend.  Present your presentation to your critical friend and collect detailed feedback from your peer.

For this task I decided to do research on happiness. I thought this was appropriate as there is currently an Action for Happiness movement which is aims to create more happiness in society.

“Action for Happiness helps people take practical action for a happier and more caring world.

Our patron is The Dalai Lama and we have thousands of members taking action to increase wellbeing in their homes, workplaces, schools and local communities. Our vision is a happier world, with far fewer people suffering with mental health problems and far more people feeling good, functioning well and helping others.”

This movement is providing courses and resources to help people improve their mental wellbeing.

The PowerPoint presentation: Happiness presentation

Feedback sheet: Feedback sheet

I think if I was to do this task again, I would make sure that the success criteria is more specific. We left it quite open to do out research however this would have made it easier to know what to discuss and to maybe look at the challenges as well as the benefits or have our own view.

Music and HWB

Music and HWB

Choose a piece of music and consider how you could use this in a HWB lesson about mental health.

I think using music and health and wellbeing can be a good way of using cross curricular links within the classroom. I think  that this task could have been completed in a variety of ways depending on what aspect of HWB and music you were looking at.

The lesson examples can be found in the word documents

Music task

music task lesson idea 

I also think it would be a good idea to get pupils to think about what kind of music makes them happy? Why they like a piece of music? What do they like about it and why? How does it make them feel?

Here is one song that always seems to put a smile on my face!