How to Plan a Sequence

To make meaningful and lasting impact through your school's wellbeing program, we first need to map out our plan for the year ahead. Read on for a time-saving framework that supports you to develop a robust and cohesive sequence for each cohort!

Key steps for success:

1. Define your wellbeing framework
2. Define the number of lessons you'll need per cohort
3. Pick a path for sequence creation
4. Choose your lessons
5. Customise your lessons
6. Respond to new information across the year

1. Define your wellbeing framework

Wellbeing programs come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, and every school is different, so it’s important to consider the structure that you’re working within, and where Wellio fits into the bigger picture.

If you already have an existing wellbeing framework or scope & sequence for this year's program, great! You're already one step ahead.

Here's what to consider during your 2025 planning:

• Identify key themes, goals, and measures of success that we can use to track both implementation and impact throughout the year. This helps to set clear expectations for yourself, classroom teachers, and students. 
• Think about where your wellbeing-program fits on the timetable. Consider the frequency of lessons within the timetable, allocated time, and how this ties in with key dates and school events. 

2. Define how many lessons you'll need per cohort

3. Pick a path for sequence creation

Decide how you'll create your sequences in Wellio for the year ahead:

• • From scratch: use this when you have an existing wellbeing program or framework that you are translating into Wellio 
  • Suggested sequence: short on time or looking to align to a specific curriculum? Leverage our existing done-for-you template sequences to save planning time and get started right away. 
  • Copy from previous academic year: for schools who have used Wellio before and are looking to improve on perfection!

4. Choose your lessons

Once you’ve picked the approach that makes the most sense for your school, it’s time to set them up directly in Wellio! 

Design from Scratch

We know that relevance of topics is a key driver of engagement for both staff and students. This option gives you ultimate control to tailor every aspect of your wellbeing program and:

• Actualise the school's vision for who a student should be when they leave the school - creating a cohesive and unique personal development journey from entrant to graduate. 
• Foster strong bonds between students of different ages and stages by threading key themes across each cohort.
• Enhance and support the school's existing pastoral priorities, structures and events.

The video below walks you through a framework that you can follow to help you visualise and make decisions about what your wellbeing program should look like across the whole school for the upcoming year. 

1. Click here to download your 2025 Planning Document and upload this to your school's OneDrive or Google Drive.
2. Populate the calendar overview:
   1. Add any key pillars, themes and dates to the calendar overview.
   2. Use grey to block out any weeks where a wellbeing period won't take place for a particular cohort (e.g. block out every second week for any programs that run fortnightly, or weeks that are scheduled for year level assemblies at the usual wellbeing time)
   3. Use yellow to block out any weeks where a guest speaker or presentation is occupying your usual wellbeing time.
   4. Use blue to block out any periods you already had planned to use for alternative activities (e.g. preparing for camp)
   5. The remaining gaps are where your Wellio lessons can slot in! 
3. Review your overview and, using the parameters you've defined, map out lessons from Wellio to round out your program for the year. For guidance, take inspiration from:
   1. Our suggested sequences: for developing the flow of your program
   2. Curriculum mapping documents: for building student competence in key topics of interest year-on-year (e.g. Respectful Relationships)
   3. The Wellio library: for researching specific topics of interest (e.g. Vaping)
      1. For ease of use, an export of our library is also available within your planning document.
   4. Your school's Wellio Insights survey results (coming soon!)
4. Once you've selected your lessons, follow the guide here to build them out directly within Wellio

Choose from our Suggested Sequences:

Our suggested sequence templates have been curated by experts to cover a range of key themes, so you can feel confident getting started in no time! 

You can choose between our starter templates for each year level, or sequences that map to a specific curriculum. When creating your sequence in Wellio, simply pick the template option with the right number of lessons for your program and you'll be ready to go.

How to create a sequence from a template

Once you've made your initial selection, you can tailor a template by following the steps here. 

Leverage Wellio to address a specific curriculum:

• We have extensive mapping to both the Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (VIC) or Keeping Safe: Child Protection (SA) curriculum: with options for 16 or 32 lesson templates for each.
• Refer to our latest curriculum mapping guides to identify which Wellio lessons are most relevant for your context.

Wellio Curriculum Mapping documents: 

• • General Capabilities
  • Keeping Safe: Child Protection
  • Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships
  • Australian Curriculum overview

Copy from Previous Academic Year

How to duplicate a sequence from a previous year.

5. Customise your lessons

As well as choosing which lessons to run, as admins, you have the ability to customise the content within lessons to suit your school's needs. Here are few common ways to make use of the editing functionality:

• Use the Learning Outcomes slides to tie in relevant school values, themes, or upcoming events
• Add extra context within the Prep Notes for classroom teachers
• Edit existing real-life examples, pictures and videos to better reflect the interests and diversity of your students
• Add, change and customise classroom activities, and interactive elements including quizzes and polls. 

How to edit lessons (coming soon)

6. Respond to new information across the year

Wellio was built with flexibility and customisation on the forefront of our mind, so you have the ability to adjust your scope and sequences throughout the year as things change.

If you need to add a lesson in response to an incident, change the order to align with key dates throughout the year, or make changes based on feedback from both teachers and students, you can edit your existing sequences at any time.