Wellness

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

Students will be supported in their intellectual, emotional, social, and physical wellbeing. 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.

PWPSD Wellness Teams

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 polan and other school authority plans. E.g. OH&S, human resources, curriculum).

Comprehensice professional learning - wellness professional learning plan is comprehensive and integrated with 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.

Universal strategies: Mental health literacy for Grade 9 and all staff, focus on connections, trauma and behaviour-informed practices, Mental Health Mondays, site-based wellness teams at each school, structured collaborative school-based mental health meetings for triage, universal programming, and psycho-education training, and a comprehensive wellness team to support wellness outcomes with specific support and tiering system for students and professionals.

Inclusive Education Processes to support inclusive practiced, inclusive supports and transitions for each student with inclusive education needs.

Culturally responsive education in classrooms supported by professional development for Truth and Reconciliation, PWPSD Indigenous Education Services Team, and PWPSD Indigenous Education Plan.

Operational Health and Safety, nutrition programs, and healthy living focus in schools.

Key system supports as VTRA Protocol, Suicide Risk Assessment, and Bereavement Protocol.

Collaboration for joint planning and implementation. School authority and school staff collaborate with community partners to identify best promising practices.