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This publication is a curriculum resource to help primary schools develop childrens
social, emotional and behavioural skills. It includes assemblies and follow-up ideas
for work in class.
Who will use it?
It will be used by schools who have identified the social and emotional aspects of
learning as a key focus for their work with the children. These will be schools who
know that the factors holding back learning in their setting include childrens
difficulties in understanding and managing their feelings, working co-operatively in
groups, motivating themselves and demonstrating resilience in the face of setbacks.
These will not necessarily be schools where behaviour and attendance are poor. The
materials will help develop children as effective learners and are therefore relevant to
schools without significant behaviour problems as well as to those with behaviour or
attendance as key issues.
How was it developed?
The publication has been developed as a result of work over the last two years in
over 500 schools taking part in the Primary National Strategys Behaviour and
Attendance pilot.
What does it do?
This curriculum resource aims to develop the underpinning qualities and skills that
help promote positive behaviour and effective learning. It focuses on five social and
emotional aspects of learning: self-awareness, managing feelings, motivation,
empathy and social skills.
The materials help children develop skills such as understanding anothers point of
view, working in a group, sticking at things when they get difficult, resolving conflict
and managing worries. They build on effective work already in place in the many
primary schools who pay systematic attention to the social and emotional aspects of
learning through whole-school ethos, initiatives such as circle time or buddy
schemes, and the taught personal, social and health education (PSHE) and
Citizenship curriculum.
The materials are organised into seven themes: New Beginnings, Getting on and
falling out, Say no to bullying, Going for goals!, Good to be me, Relationships and
Changes. Each theme is designed for a whole-school approach and includes a
whole-school assembly and suggested follow-up activities in all areas of the
curriculum. The colour-coded resources are organized at four levels: Foundation
Stage, Years 1 and 2, Years 3 and 4, and Years 5 and 6. Pupil reference material and
photocopiable teacher reference material accompany each theme.
There is a whole-school pack for the staffroom, a year-group pack with the same
materials organised into a set of booklets for each year group from early Foundation
Stage through to Year 6, and a resource file of photographs and posters.
Theme 1: New beginnings
This theme focuses on developing childrens knowledge, understanding and skills in
four key social and emotional aspects of learning: empathy, self-awareness, social
skills and motivation.
The theme offers children the opportunity to see themselves as valued individuals
within their community and to contribute to shaping a welcoming, safe and fair
learning community for all. Throughout the theme, children explore feelings of
happiness and excitement, sadness, anxiety and fearfulness, and learn shared
models for calming down and problem solving.
Red
Photocards
Posters
happy, sad,
scared, excited
Feelings
detective
Others
Resources
Feelings fans
Ruby at nursery
Feeling identikit
Class charter
Blue
happy, sad,
scared, excited
Feelings
detective
Ways to calm
down
Problem
solving
Emotional
barometer
New world
challenge
Flag challenge
Faisal
Class charter
Gifts and talents
cards
Gifts and talents
challenges
Yellow
Problem
solving
Ways to calm
down
Sami's new
beginning
Feelings
detective
Emotional
barometer
Favourites wheel
frightened, scared
Introducing rights
and responsibilities
Welcome pack
challenge
Poems about
friendship
Class charter
Green
Purple
excited, worried,
frightened, afraid,
scared
Feelings
detective
Ways to calm
down
Problem
solving
Emotional
barometer
Class guide
challenge
Dream school
challenge
A new beginning
for Amy
Our route
Colou
r
Red
Photocards
Posters
Others
Resources
Feelings fans
angry, happy,
friendly, friendship
Fireworks
Are we ready
for circle time?
Blue
angry, conflict,
friendship
Feelings
detective
Peaceful
problem
solving
Working together
self-review
checklists
Ways to calm down
Emotional
barometer
Music for different
moods
Are we ready
for circle time?
Working together
self-review
checklists
Wanted a friend
Falling out and
making up
Dino and Dot What
can you see?
Point of view Making
a game
Rap connected
Cooperation puzzles
Yellow
friendship, friendly
Feelings
detective
Peaceful
problem
solving
Fireworks
Emotional
barometer
Music for different
moods
Colou
r
Photocards
Posters
Others
Working together
self-review
checklists
Green
conflict
Are we ready
for circle time?
Feelings
detective
Fireworks
Peaceful
problem
solving
Resources
Levels of friendship
ADI Friends
magazine challenge
Difference a barrier to
friendship
Using I messages
Standing in my shoes
Reframing situations
Fireworks
Purple
Peaceful
problem
solving
Silver
Working together
self-review
checklists
Conflict management
information sheet
Colou
r
Photocard
s
Posters
Others
Red
Resources
Sean in the building area
Is it bullying?
Blue
Yellow
The
Fight
Character descriptions
Bullying scenario
Green
No way - interactive
text
Quiz - Is it bullying?
Extracts from Cat's Eye
Purple
No way - interactive
text
Bullying can be
Key messages
Frequently asked questions
Each set of activities focuses on the underlying prerequisites for successful goaldirected learning and behaviour: for example, taking responsibility and building
feelings of confidence and self-efficacy the belief that what you do makes a
difference.
Goal-directed behaviour is only valuable if we are able to make wise and balanced
choices about our goals, so this theme provides opportunities for children to consider
this and to practise problem-solving strategies.
Find all the related activities and resources in the Attachments panel on the right
hand side of your screen.
Colou
r
Photocards
Posters
Others
Resources
Ready to learn
Origami
Blue
determined, bored,
frustrated
Problem
solving
How am I clever
Daisy and Rehana
Lucky Dip
Brave or unwise
challenge
My learning map
Yellow
children learning
Barriers to learning
challenge
The race Learning to
make graphs
I have a dream
Overcoming
obstacles to success
Soldier and key
Colou
r
Photocards
Posters
Others
Resources
disappointed
Feelings
detectives
I have a dream
Overcoming
obstacles to success
How am I clever
Problem
solving
Purple
Silver
Feelings fans
Theme 5: Good to be me
This theme is the first of two focusing specifically on feelings. It explores feelings in
the context of the child as an individual, developing self-awareness and helping the
child to realise that it really is Good to be me'.
The theme is about understanding our feelings as well as considering our strengths
and weaknesses as learners. It aims to develop knowledge, understanding and skills
in three key social and emotional aspects of learning: self-awareness, managing
feelings and empathy. The theme focuses on:
understanding feelings, and why and how they lead us to behave the way we
do excited, proud, surprised, hopeful, disappointed, worried and anxious;
Find all the related activities and resources in the Attachments panel on the right
hand side of your screen.
Colou
r
Red
Photocards
Posters
Feelings detective
Others
Feelings fans
Resources
Colou
r
Photocards
Posters
Others
Resources
Feelings identikit
Working
together selfreview checklists
Blue
worried, proud,
relaxed
Problem solving
Feelings detective
Feelings,
thoughts,
behaviour
Mouse profile
Relaxed
Emotional
barometer
Asserts challenge
Assembly
pictures
Sam's thinking
brain challenge
Surprise challenge
Lion, mouse, fox
and human
Emotional
barometer
Yellow
surprised, worried,
hopeful,
disappointed, scared
Feelings detective
Assertiveness
Feelings,
thoughts,
behaviour
Worries De Rong
Song
Hopeful Hopeful
and hopeless
challenge
Working
together selfreview checklists
Hiding my feelings
Fight or flight
Ways of saying
what you want to
say
Fight or flight Fight
or flight cards
Green
peer pressure
Assertiveness
Feelings fans
Working
together selfreview checklists
Maggie's story
Mouse factfile
Colou
r
Photocards
Posters
Others
Resources
Old Wormwart's
cure for worrying
Our worries
Paul's story
Fight or flight
Old Wormwart's
cure for worrying
Silver
Feelings fans
Theme 6: Relationships
This theme is the second of two focusing specifically on feelings. It explores feelings
within the context of our important relationships including family and friends. The
theme aims to develop knowledge, understanding and skills in three key social and
emotional aspects of learning: self-awareness, managing feelings and empathy.
In addition, there is a focus throughout the theme on helping children understand the
feelings associated with an experience that we all need to cope with at some time:
that of loss whether of a favourite possession, a friend, a family home or a loved
one.
Find all the related activities and resources in the Attachments panel on the right
hand side of your screen.
Colou
r
Red
Photocards
lonely, sad, loved, cared
for, happy, belonging, left
out, friendly, fair, unfair
Posters
Feelings
detective
Others
Resources
Feelings identikit
The sunflower
Sunflower
presentation
Colou
r
Photocards
Posters
Others
Resources
Feelings fans
Jealous
Feeling, thoughts,
behaviour
Blue
Feelings
detective
Emotional
barometer
Working together
self-review
checklists
Feelings identikit
Wils or Pilgrim
challenge
Feeling lonely
challenge
Photo of Wils
Pamper cards
Feelings, thoughts,
behaviour
Three pictures
Problem
solving
Yellow
guilty
Feelings
detective
Emotional
barometer
Working together
self-review
checklists
Guilty Taking
responsibility
Lynford
Lynford challenge
Jack's choice
My gerbil
Important people
in my life
Remembering
Green
embarrassed
Feelings
detective
Emotional
barometer
Peaceful
problem
solving
Feelings, thoughts,
Blushometer
Embarrassed
Pick me up don't
Colou
r
Photocards
Posters
Others
Resources
put me down
You can't judge a
book by its cover
behaviour
Working together
self-review
checklists
Harrybo
Just trying to help
challenge
Forgiveness
Forgiveness
challenge
Wils or Pilgrim
Purple
Game squares
Layout sheet
Feeling lonely star
cards
My special person
sheet
Silver
Sentence
completion cards
Feelings star cards
Happy and proud
record cards
Zotty's story
Theme 7: Changes
This theme tackles the issue of change and aims to equip children with an
understanding of different types of change, positive and negative, and common
human responses to it.
The theme seeks to develop children's ability to understand and manage the feelings
associated with change. It aims to develop knowledge, understanding and skills in
three key social and emotional aspects of learning: motivation, social skills and
managing feelings.
Find all the activities and resources in the Attachments panel on the right hand side
of your screen.
Colou
r
Photocards
Posters
Others
Resources
Helping Estelle
Problem solving
Red
empathy
Feelings
detective
Feelings
identikit
Linking feelings
and behaviour
What if
What shall we
do
Blue
Problem solving
Working
together selfreview
checklists
Emotional
barometer
Yellow
Green
Feelings
detective
Feelings
detective
Peaceful
problem solving
Working
together selfreview
checklists
Naughty Nigel
Positive
changes
Emotion in
motion
Making the
links
Emotional
barometer
Melanie's
journal
Working
together selfreview
checklists
Whose fault is it
anyway
Sore spots
We all need
Colou
r
Photocards
Posters
Others
Resources
Making the
links: difficult
changes
Silver
Feelings fans
Panic and
Think bubbles
Whole-school SEAL
The Social and Emotional Aspect of Learning (SEAL) materials are designed to
provide a whole-school approach to promoting social, emotional and behavioural
skills. The materials provide a range of resources that can be used across the whole
primary school.
These resources include a set of high-quality photographs to illustrate a number of
emotions, a set of posters and other ideas for promoting SEAL across the school.
The following resources can be found in the attached files.
Whole-school resources
Problem-solving poster
Assertiveness poster
Fireworks poster
a whole-school booklist