eTwinning activity: Are you mentally aware?

Project kits

15 May 2025

This activity, featured in the 2024 eTwinning book, supports the mental wellbeing of older pupils and helps them identify their ideal work-life balance.

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When we talk about wellbeing in school, we mean that pupils have the ability to develop their natural talents and enjoy learning in a creative way. Young adults spend a considerable amount of time in school, and this makes school a key space for promoting mental and physical wellbeing.

Incorporating socio-emotional learning, mental health, psychological wellbeing and bullying prevention programmes in schools is also one of the most effective ways to support psychological wellbeing of young people. The following activity can be adjusted and used in initial vocational education (IVET) classes.

This activity was selected for and published in the eTwinning book 2024 ‘’, and can be used as part of an eTwinning project or on its own to support pupils’ wellbeing.

Introduction of partners

The teacher starts by sharing how wellbeing impacts job satisfaction, productivity and overall quality of life. The pupils do a meditation exercise in which they visualise their ideal working life.

What would their work-life balance look like?
Where would they like to work and what position would they like to have?
What would their relationships look like?
What challenges may they face?

Collaboration

They create a digital vision board based on this visualisation. This digital vision board can be a digital poster/infographic with images, text and videos or a word cloud. This is uploaded to their TwinSpace and shared with the other class.

After this, a video call is held in which the two classes discuss common themes in their vision boards and what is needed to make their visions happen in their lives. The teachers explain that the pupils will be divided into smaller groups, involving pupils from both classes, and they will collaborate to make a virtual awareness campaign.

This awareness campaign can be based on the following topics or the challenges that came out during the visualisation exercise, such as stress management, anxiety or depression.

International groups are assigned to research a topic and gather information, statistics and personal stories. They then create informative posters, flyers or digital graphics to share key messages and resources about the topic, including descriptions, identification methods, coping strategies and support sources.

Follow up

Each school then organises an awareness event in which groups present their campaigns, distribute the resources and materials they made and engage in discussions about mental health, inviting relevant experts to contribute. During this awareness campaign, pupils should be encouraged to share their own experiences or strategies for coping with mental health challenges, fostering empathy and understanding within the school community. This can be done in the form of panel discussions, prerecorded videos or podcasts in which the pupils interview each other.

Additional information

Age from:

17
Age to:

20+
Difficulty:

Intermediate
Education type:

Vocational Education and Training
Target audience:

Teacher

Student Teacher

Head Teacher / Principal

Teacher Educator
Target audience ISCED:

Upper secondary education (ISCED 3)

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