Sharing Success
Students, parents, teachers and schools are given the opportunity on this section of the website to share their success stories of how they used their feedback reports to help improve wellness for the students and staff within their schools.
Please share any stories that make your school a wellness school success story.
High School Vice-principal
"Our district is most exited for the mental fitness section of the survey. We have looked at other areas and are anxious to see how our students are feeling."
District Learning Specialist
"The district profiles will help us to plan ways to improve wellness across the district. Even though the survey focused on students in grades 6 through 12 we can see what areas to target in our younger students."
Healthy Learner Nurse
"Schools are to include their profiles in their school improvement plans under the PLEP section."
Success Stories
Need Assessments and Self-Determination Theory as Catalysts for Change: CIT Create a Culture of Kindness (May, 2009)
Until recently, Campobello Island deemed many of their youth to be up to no good! However, findings from a need assessment revealed that teens had nothing to do. Furthermore, mental resiliency findings from the New Brunswick Student Wellness Survey revealed that although area teens felt autonomous, connected, and competent in their community, they were unable to engage in pro-social behaviour, defined as giving without recognition or monetary reward. Campobello Youth took exception to these findings and determined they had work to do, starting with bullying in schools. These youth, Public Health, and School District 10 Guidance Department designed and deployed their “Bully Blockers” program, enabling teens to create their behavioural guidelines, resulting in sustained cultural change.
Susan Allen: Oromocto High School (Feb, 2008)
To date, we have held focus groups with the teachers, presented the surveys and asked them three questions: 1) what did you learn, 2) what are we doing, 3) what can we do?. From these focus groups with the teachers we decided to post a large poster in the staff room and have staff add whatever they do under any of the four pillars. This provided us with some information of what is going on in the school with regards to promoting wellness.
As well, the school health advisory committee is currently preparing newspaper articles for the Oromocto Post-Gazette. These 7 articles will be geared to parents. The articles will feature some highlights on each survey and ways parents can contribute to improving their childrens’ health.
The nutrition class at the school will be taking on the task of hosting focus groups with other students on the survey results. Furthermore, our results still showed youth are being exposed to second hand smoke at high levels. Therefore, we are under way in a big school and community wide campaign on second hand smoke for the end of April or the first of May.
