A Fire Inside - The PERMA Model and the Importance of Health and Wellbeing

This Health and Physical Education (HPE) lesson introduces the PERMA model of wellbeing. There are five building blocks that enable flourishing – Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment (hence PERMA™) – and there are techniques to increase each. This lesson focuses on the PERMA model’s ‘Positive Emotion and Relationships’ aspect with case studies used from ‘A Fire Inside’. Students identify aspects of positive relationships and examine their impact on an individual’s wellbeing. Using the information they have gained in the lesson, students work together to make proposals to improve wellbeing at their school.