Welcome to Well-Being A:Meet Mo and Ko (Junior Infants) Pupil Book

The welcome to well-being programme is a multi-year programme for children from Junior Infants to First class. It is designed to enhance children’s well-being across all dimensions – social, emotional, spiritual, physical and mental. Enhancing children’s well-being can lead to a wide variety of other successful outcomes including increased academic performance, better relationships and increased resilience. Specific aims of welcome to well-being: Meet Mo and Ko (Junior infants) • To increase children’s understanding of specific emotions including happiness, sadness, anger, pride and bravery. • To encourage children to accept and express all of their emotions in a positive way. • To provide children with the opportunity to upregulate the following positive emotions – joy, happiness, gratitude, serenity, n pride and humour. • To provide students with the opportunity to regulate and express their feelings of sadness and anger. • To promote feelings of self-confidence and self-worth. • To promote self-efficacy through giving children strategies to deal with their strong emotions. • To develop pro-social relationships through encouraging acts of kindness and appropriate expression of emotions. The theme of the programme is that two little aliens called Mo and Ko have come from the planet Zo to help children to feel happy, strong, kind and brave, loving and well. Each week they introduce children to a new idea and they set a challenge for the children to try it out for the week – at home as well as at school.