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A collection of resources to help schools meet their SMILERS criteria.

The SMILERS Ways to Wellbeing Whole School Approach has been developed to empower Derbyshire primary school communities (staff and pupils) to become architects of their own emotional health and well-being, within an enabling environment. It is based on the 5 Ways to Wellbeing- simple everyday things that can boost mood and happiness.

  1. Keep Active
  2. Take Notice
  3. Connect
  4. Keep Learning
  5. Give

SMILERS is an acronym and each letter represents things we can all do.

These include - Stay Connected, Move, Interest, Look, Eatwell, Rest and Support.

A collection of useful SMILERS related videos are available on YouTube, alongside a collection of Whole School Approach themed videos

There are also a collection of posters available to download.

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