WiseWater wellness is a six-week programme that teaches young people about the inter-relationship between water conservation and keeping well.

Through classroom-based discussions, games, activities, and experiments, students explore the many reasons why “we need water and water needs us”.

Modelling Education for Sustainability values (ESD) the program seamlessly integrates environmental awareness into the SESE, SPHE, Art, English, Maths, and P.E. curriculum.

SESE: Geography: Environmental awareness and care. Science: Living things, energy, and forces.

SPHE: Provides tools that promote self-awareness and personal well-being. Students gain an understanding of how their actions affect themselves, each other, and the environment.

Art: Various creative activities in each workshop

Maths: Calculating personal water usage and tackling problem-solving challenges related to global water usage.

English: Storytelling and creative writing that promotes water awareness and active citizenship at school and home.

Maths- Calculating personal water usage and various problem-solving challenges regarding global water usage.

Program Overview

💧Week 1 - We are Wise water

This session will involve water related ice breakers to introduce us and our programme. Through games and brainstorming activities we will explore what water means to the class and how we can preserve and care for this precious resource. Together we learn the important relationship between the water inside us and all around us.

💧Week 2 – Wellness and how water keeps us well

What is wellness? Exploring with the class what it means to be well. This session focusses on self-awareness and understanding our thoughts and emotions. Introducing the blue mind concept as a practical tool for becoming aware of how our thoughts affect us. We also investigate some of the magical properties of water to help us understand how we can be receptive, reflective and resilient.

💧Week 3 – We need water and water needs us.

Integrating the first two sessions we will explore the interrelationship of water and our wellness. This session will bring a new understanding of the water cycle and how it creates the perfect conditions for life on earth. Through activities students will explore how water is around us at all times and we are part of the water cycle. Learning how to better care for the water we interact with.

💧Week 4 – One well, every drop counts

This session looks at water globally with the concept of one well.