Why Wellness?
The Wellness Course focuses upon related to health and lifestyle focusing on four types of well-being; physical, emotional, mental, and social. The degree to which these interrelated aspects are nurtured directly influences our quality of life. This course investigates topics relevant to Middle School students focusing on the relationship between responsibility, sound decision-making skills and good health.
Wellness 7 Course Requirements
Wellness 8 Course Requirements
Why are we passionate about Wellness at ISM ?
Wellness is so crucial to leading a happy, fun and fullfilled life. At ISM we really believe that we teach the students life long skills, like how to make good food choices, what are the benefits of exercise, how you can manage your relationships with your peers, and also they learn important information about topics that are relevant to them for example substance abuse and mental health. Wellness is a fun and interesting lesson where we aim for the student to be fully engaged in the lessons. We do not set formal homework and our aim is to complete all the activities and projects in class, although sometimes the students may need to finish their work off at home.
Introduction to Wellness
Check out this video . . . .
ACT AWARE
This World AIDS Day – 1 Dec - take action to tackle HIV prejudice and to protect yourself and others from HIV transmission. Over 90,000 people are living with HIV in the UK and new infections continue every year. Explore this site to ensure you understand the facts about HIV and find out what you can do to ACT AWARE.
Check out this 3 minute FOX News report about the increased prevelance of HIV in college students
Check out this interesting BBC article
** Teen depression linked to sleep’ **
Going to bed earlier protects teenagers against depression and suicidal thoughts, research suggests.
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/health/8435955.stm >
The Truth about the Teenage Brain
How does the teenage brain develop? Ever wondered about your brain and why you think, feel, act like you do . . click on the link below to check out this powerpoint to find out more about your brain
The Truth about the Teenage Brain
I have recently completed my KIDZYOGA training in Hong Kong and I plan to include yoga into my Wellness lessons. Check out this presentation explaining the benefits of yoga.
About me
Hi. My name is Carly Relf and I am really excited to be living here in Manila and can’t wait to explore the islands with my family. I teach Middle School Wellness and after teaching PE for 5 years I am enthusiastic about healthy lifestyles and keeping fit. I have 3 young girls and they love eating all the fresh fruit here. Jasmine is 8 years old, Isabella is 6 years old and Sophia is 2 years old. My husband mike is the IB coordinator in the High School. We come from Reading in the UK and enjoy all sports and outdoor activities. I am a marathon runner and have completed my 10th marathon at Camusr in the Philippines. I am now starting to try triathlon.
About the blog
Welcome to my class blog!! This is a place where students and parents can visit to find out more about my wellness classes and my cross country coaching. I will give out information related to my classes and students can print off worksheets about projects and activities we do in the class, it will also give useful links to health issues, you can see pictures and video clips of the students in action. Enjoy!!
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