Wellness

PWPSD will provide the school community with an inclusive, safe, and caring learning environment.

Students will be supported in their intellectual, emotional, social, and physical well-being. There will be an increase in student wellness functioning and sense of self.

Staff will be supported within a wellness culture of care and support, and feel encouraged to make decisions to support their individual wellness.

Staff will develop and engage in a high capacity of universal wellness practices.

Supporting the PWPSD Wellness teams.

Using a coherent approach that addresses the wellness needs of all leaders, teachers, staff, and students within the physical, mental, and social-emotional dimensions of well-being. (Building coherence between the workplace wellness plan and other school authority plans. (e.g. OH&S, human resources, curriculum)).

Integrating the comprehensive wellness professional learning please within the school authority's overall professional learning plan. The wellness plan provides for professional learning related to self-case, as well as supporting staff and student wellness.

Utilizing universal strategies throughout the division, including mental health literacy for Grade 9 students and all staff, focusing on connections, exercising trauma and behaviour informed practices, sharing mental health tips through our Mental Health Mondays, providing site-based wellness teams at each school, hosting structured collaborative school-based mental health meetings for triage, providing universal programming and psycho-education training, and employing a comprehensive wellness team to support wellness outcomes with specific support and tiering system for students and professionals.

Supporting inclusive practices through inclusive education processes, inclusive supports, and transitions for each student with inclusive education needs.

Supporting culturally responsive education in classrooms through professional development for truth and reconciliation, and PWPSD's Indigenous Education Services and Indigenous Education Plan.

Focusing on operational health and safety, nutrition programs, and healthy living in schools.

Providing key system supports through VTRA protocol, suicide risk assessments, and bereavement protocol.

Collaborating with school authority, staff, and community partners for joint planning and implementation, and to identify best promising practices.