Walk in My Shoes (WIMS) is delighted to release a new Teacher Year Planner to support schools’ wellbeing activity throughout the 2024/25 academic year.
This free tool, designed especially for primary and secondary school teachers in Ireland, will help you to plan creative and meaningful wellbeing activities with your students.
For the first time, the annual planner is now available in both English and Irish language versions.
Start the year as you mean to go on
The handy activity planner aims to keep you updated and on top of your mental health promotion plans for the new school year.
The planner outlines key dates of the school year; showcases some key WIMS resources you can use in your classroom; and points to some of the other ways you and your students can get involved with WIMS to support mental health and wellbeing activity in your school.
It is designed to make a colourful, visual display in your classroom. It is laid out from September to June so that you can see and plan for a range of wellbeing opportunities during the whole school year.
Get your copy of the Teacher Year Planner
The 2024/25 Teacher Year Planner is available for download below, so that you can print it for display in your classroom. We recommend you print it in A2 size to best capture all the details. You can also share the link to the download with other teachers in your school or community who might be interested in having the planner themselves.
If you would like to receive a hard copy of the planner by post, please complete our planner registration form here by Wednesday, 15 January 2025.
You can order up to 15 copies of the planner for your school. Planners will be sent by post with expected arrival by the end of January. Unfortunately, we cannot post planners for requests received after 15 January 2025.
Promote wellbeing in schools
Sinead O’Kelly, Mental Health Promotion Manager with WIMS, says “Every year, we get a great response from primary and secondary school teachers across Ireland to our Teacher Year Planner. It’s really encouraging to see the enthusiasm and support from teachers and school staff for promoting mental health and wellbeing, and we’re delighted that the Teacher Year Planner can play a part in that by helping with planning and signposting key opportunities.”
“We’re especially happy to be releasing our first Irish language version of the Teacher Year Planner for the 2024/25 school year. Our choice to make this version available is based on feedback from teachers working in Gaelscoileanna and Gaelcholáistí, as well as the wider school community, and follows our development of a number of Irish language wellbeing resources over the last couple of years."
"We hope teachers and students in schools find the planner helpful in learning about and promoting wellbeing this school year, whether they’re learning through English or as Gaeilge!"
