For school leaders and safeguarding leads

What it is

Wholebeing treats wellbeing as a set of skills young people can learn and practise together, such as resting well, listening and staying with hard feelings. This site brings those skills into class for students aged 13 to 18: 52 five-minute practice cards, 31 lessons of one class period, a term planner and a private self-check for staff. It comes from Recipes for Wellbeing, a non-profit, and is built on the Wholebeing framework.

How students feel depends on the conditions a school sets as much as on any lesson. These practices cannot repair a timetable or a workload that asks too much. They give a class a shared pause and shared words, and they work best alongside the school looking at those conditions too.

The time it asks

A card takes 3 to 5 minutes at the start or end of a class. A lesson takes 39 to 42 minutes. Teachers choose the rhythm: a card a week, a lesson a week, or the two in turn. Nothing needs training first; each card and lesson carries the words to read aloud.

How it handles safeguarding

• Pass is always allowed. No student has to speak, share or join in, or explain why.
• Nothing invites a student to disclose something painful in front of the room. Examples can be fictional, and eyes closed is always optional.
• Every lesson opens with a safeguarding note and sends anything heavy to your school's own safeguarding policy and staff.
• It is classroom learning about everyday skills. It is no substitute for therapy, and it is not written for self-harm, abuse or bereavement.

Curriculum fit

Each lesson is mapped to 29 curriculum frameworks, covering 18 national curricula and the frameworks used worldwide. The curriculum map shows where each lesson may fit in your country. The mapping is a guide for planning, and your own curriculum lead has the final word.

Licence and cost

Free under CC BY-NC 4.0: use it, adapt it and translate it, credit Recipes for Wellbeing, and do not sell it. There are no accounts and no analytics. Anything a teacher saves stays in their own browser.

How it is made

We draft with AI help, inside the Wholebeing framework, and pass all of it through the Recipes for Wellbeing voice. No clinician reads every page, so read a lesson before it is taught, and let your own safeguarding policy lead.

Questions

Email info@recipesforwellbeing.org. For teachers, the guide to teaching it well is at Teaching it well.