My Wellbeing is a new Junior Cycle SPHE series based on the JC Short Course specification. The series covers all areas of the course in a graded fashion over years 1, 2 and 3.

This Year 2 book:

• reaches the relevant learning outcomes in an informative and engaging manner through a well-balanced use of age-appropriate explanatory text and a broad, inclusive mix of classroom activities. As with My Wellbeing – Year 1 a compassionate and common sense approach is applied to all topics throughout the book, and indeed the series.
• contains four chapters, with each chapter covering a variety of learning outcomes. Some learning outcomes feature in more than one chapter,  allowing students to consider them at a deeper level and in a variety of contexts. The podcast series, available in our Digital Resources on this site, acts as a useful aid to teachers in planning and navigating SPHE classes at all ages. 
• focuses on helping students improve and maintain their own wellbeing in all wellbeing domains: physical, emotional, social and spiritual.
• supports students as they travel further into adolescence and teaches them life-long skills such as how to make good decisions, build resilience, self-regulate when necessary and enhance their self-awareness.
• further develops the skill of empathy through end-of-chapter activities that focus on the student’s chosen avatar negotiating situations relevant to each chapter. There are five new avatars to choose from in this book.
• facilitates class discussion, pair/group work and individual reflection throughout, as per the 3 cross-cutting elements of Awareness, Dialogue and Reflection & Action.