Students Well-being
At IBS, prioritising student and community well-being is essential for shaping a positive future for our students and the world. Our goal is to support every young individual in flourishing, thriving, and achieving success. We strongly uphold that a holistic approach, considering social-emotional, ethical, and physical development alongside academic needs, is crucial for student growth.
Research shows a strong link between wellbeing and learning, where well-being positively impacts student learning outcomes, and academic success enhances student well-being which is at the core of our school and community ethos and is deeply embedded in all aspects of our practices, from strategies to policies .
Positive Education.
At our school, we are excited to introduce Positive Education model, an evidence-based approach focused on proactively enhancing well-being through the development of key competencies, knowledge, and skills for personal flourishing.
IBS Positive Education is seamlessly integrated into our interactions with students, aiming to help them realize their full potential and become the best version of themselves.
This approach encompasses six essential domains that play a vital role in fostering human flourishing: positive relationships, positive emotions, positive engagement, positive accomplishment, positive health, and positive purpose. By prioritising these domains, we provide students with mental health strategies that promote resilience, thereby equipping them to effectively navigate life's challenges.
IBS Student Well-being Model
The model encompasses our whole-school approach to student well-being, incorporating the tenets of Positive Education with the interconnected network of people, programmes and policies that support emotional and physical well-being.
Vital to the model is the introduction of coaching at the secondary school level. Research has proven that such inittiatives enhance the wellbeing, goal-striving, resilience and hope in the maturing young adults. Learning coaches are pivotal to our secondary programmes, culminating in the Navigate Programme for Middle School students and the Pathways Programme for Senior School students.
Wellbeing in the Early Learning Years
Children and educators in the ELC practice meditation and mindfulness every day. Together we take this daily opportunity to pause, tune in, and notice the world around us. Our daily mindful ritual brings a gentle moment of calm and allows us to tune into ourselves and our learning environment.
Wellbeing in the Primary Years
Through explicit and implicit curriculum development, our Primary students engage in activities that promote the principles of authentic happiness, the development and use of one’s character strengths and the learning of skills to enhance one’s level of resiliency.
Wellbeing in the Timbertop Year
Arguably, the greatest example of Positive Education is the Timbertop programme. In many ways, Timbertop is one of the most powerful and directly applicable experience of the six associated domains that are central to the promotion of human flourishing.
Wellbeing in Middle School
The Navigate ProgrammeIn Year 7 Navigate, there is an emphasis on belonging – with ourselves, with each other and with the wider world. In Year 8 Navigate, there is an emphasis on developing the strengths and capabilities which will assist a successful transition to Timbertop.
Wellbeing in Senior School
The Pathways ProgrammePathways supports students as they navigate purposeful choices through the Senior School and beyond.
Students participate in a range of group learning experiences that focus on skills for learning, personal wellbeing, career and tertiary pathways and service.
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