1. ‘Choose to be a well being’
Slide 1

2. Any new words this week? Term 3 Wellbeing WALT: understand SPECS
WILF: I can understand the difference aspects of wellbeing and improve my wellbeing
Any new words this week?
Slide 2
Read WALT and WILF
Have there been any new words added to our list.
Add these words to your list

3. SPECS Wellbeing Pie This term we will talk about:
Every slice of a pie is important to make a complete meal.
What ingredients do you have in each slice of your wellbeing pie?
Slide 3
Revise Wellbeing Pie. We need to have good ingredients in all pieces of the pie.
Revise the ingredients from last week’s lesson on Gratitude. Remind students that gratitude is an ingredient for more than one piece of pie.
Every aspect of wellbeing is important to make us feel complete and well.
What ingredients do you need to add to each slice of your pie?

4. Which of the SPECS are we looking at today?
Today we are focusing on the C in SPECS, which stands for
COGNITIVE
Slide 4
General discussion about the pie. What did we look at last time? Today we are looking at cognitive

5. COGNITIVE – another wellbeing aspect
What does the word ‘cognitive’ mean?
Think, share pair 
Discuss your findings with the class from each pair
Add some of these answers to your wellbeing word chart on post it notes
Slide 5: Cognitive wellbeing is associated with achievement and success. It includes how information is processed and judgements are made. It is also informed by motivation and persistence to achieve. Cognitive wellbeing is important for attaining knowledge and experiencing positive learning.
Words could include: learning, trying, persisting, remembering, understanding, achieving, progressing, listening, effort, taking risks with learning, reflecting…

6. Beautiful Brains What can our brains do?
What can our brains do?
Out brains allow us to do many things including moving, laughing, crying and also learning
Cognitive wellbeing relates to our brain:
Learning
Participating
Speaking
Persisting/trying
Remembering
Ask students to think about all the things that their brains do; talking, breathing, keep your heart beating, pumps blood, etc. Our brains keep us alive – they are the computer that is in charge of running our bodies.

7. What helps our brains function?
Think, pair and share your ideas with the class about what you think helps the brain stay healthy and functioning.
Create a mind map of ideas that help the brain stay in shape. Identify the things that are needed for cognitive wellbeing (the ingredients)
Sleep
Exercise
Relaxation
Good nutrition
Puzzles
Learning
Discussing ideas
Doing challenging tasks
Reading
Doing things different ways e.g. cleaning teeth with other hand
Designing things
Being creative

8. What else helps our cognitive wellbeing?
Moving and exercising is a fantastic way to keep your cognitive wellbeing strong.
When you move, the heart pumps oxygen around the body and to the brain. This helps you to stay focused, improve your mood and re-energises the brain for more learning.
What other aspects does this link to? (Physical wellbeing)
Why is it important to have oxygen in the brain? (it is the power supply to keep the brain working)

9. How much should we move?
For every hour you are sitting you should be doing 2 – 3 minutes of movement!
Time to move!

10. Keep your brain active with some brain teasers…
Students suggest answers

11. Answer:
It’s best to use a spoon!!!

12. Q: What has a face and two hands, but no arms or legs?
Riddle me this
Q: What has a face and two hands, but no arms or legs?

13. A clock.

14. Q: How many uses can you think of for a brick?
These builds our creative part of the brain

15. Learning new things… Try this new skill and coordination…
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Might need to modify this activity for Yr 2
Why is this activity good for our brains and cognitive wellbeing.
Requires concentration, changing patterns, coordination

16. Teasing the brain, is pleasing the brain!
Keeping your mind active with riddles, puzzles and learning is a great way to keep your cognitive wellbeing in check.
What is something new you have learnt this week at school?
How did you remember this new information?
How can we retain new information?
What are some things you can do to remember? (practice, teach someone else, revise it everyday etc.)

17. Wellbeing Pie Charts
Are there any ingredients in other slices of the pie that could be added to the cognitive slice?
Are there any ingredients that belong to the Cognitive slice only?

18. Cognitive Well being: What have you learnt?
Highlight and write word 1 here
Highlight and write word 2 here
Highlight and write word 3 here
Highlight and write word 4 here
Highlight and write word 5 here
Highlight and write word 6 here

19. Your Cognitive Wellbeing
How would you rate your cognitive wellbeing at this time?
10 is feeling fabulous about learning, enjoying being challenged, being able to persist and wanting to try different ways to be successful in your learning. 1 is the opposite. What number are you on the scale?
What ingredients do you believe you already have in the Cognitive slice of your pie?
Students do not need to tell anyone their number. We will go back to adding ingredients to individual pie charts in a summary lesson in Week 10.

20. Building your Cognitive Wellbeing
Think about the number you chose to scale your Cognitive Wellbeing.
It is important to keep building your wellbeing.
What ingredients could you add to the Cognitive slice of your pie to get you to a higher number? Refer to post it notes and Slide with examples.
Turn and talk to a partner
How could you make this happen?
Follow this up on another day. Get students to think about if they have made any changes to increase their cognitive wellbeing.

21. Today we have looked at:
Cognitive Wellbeing
For homework this week, keep a record of what you do for your cognitive wellbeing.
Perhaps your class could up for GoNoodle so you can keep track of your brain breaks!

22. Revisiting Gratitude….
Listen to this new bell song.
What things are the singers grateful for?
What a wonderful world​