1. Social andEmotionalAspects ofLearning Oldway Primary School NPD 3rd September 2007

2. There are five social and emotional aspects of learning: • Self awareness • Managing feelings • Motivation • Empathy • Social skills

3. Why is it important to develop these aspects of learning? • They underlie almost every aspect of our lives • They enable us to be effective learners • They enable us to get on with other people • They enable us to be responsible citizens

4. What are the principles of a SEAL programme at Oldway? • Every Child Matters • Whole-school approach • Build on school’s own ‘outstanding’ work in pastoral intervention and PSHCE • Linked to teaching and learning styles ‘building learning power’ • Linked to ethos of ‘learning community’ • Teaching staff as role models • Healthy Schools

5. What is it? • Whole-school community involvement • Assembly materials on SEAL themes • A spiral curriculum which revisits and builds on each theme (and those skills) annually • Lessons with specifically taught skills • Links across the curriculum • Follow up work for groups who need additional support • Ideas for involving families

6. And it isn’t…. • A PSHCE scheme of work (SRE, Thinking Skills, Drugs and Alcohol Awareness, Road Safety, Citizenship) • SEN Intervention • Pastoral intervention IT SUPPORTS AND COMPLEMENTS OUR CURRENT GOOD PRACTICE IN PSHCE, SEN, PASTORAL INTERVENTION, SULP

7. Seven themes providing up to six weeks’ work: • New beginnings (Autumn 1) • Getting on and falling out (Autumn 2) • Say no to bullying (Anti-Bullying Week) • Going for goals! (Spring 1) • Good to be me (Spring 2) • Relationships (Summer 1) • Changes ( Summer 2)

8. What’s in the pack? • RED set (Foundation Stage) • BLUE set (Years 1 and 2) • YELLOW set (Years 3 and 4) • GREEN set (Years 5 and 6) • Purple set (staff development activities) • Gold set (activities for pupils to do at home with their family) • Silver set (small-group activities for children who need additional support)

9. New beginnings…. The theme offers children the opportunity to see themselves as valued individuals within a community, and contribute to shaping a welcoming, safe and fair learning community for all. Throughout the themes, children explore feelings of happiness and excitement, sadness, anxiety and fearfulness, while learning (and putting into practice) shared models for ‘calming down’ and ‘problem solving’. Pupils are celebrated who are observed: • making someone feel welcome • doing something brave – overcoming feelings of fearfulness • solving a problem / remembering to use the problem solving process • calming down / helping someone to calm down

10. Getting on and falling out This theme develops the classroom ethos, extending the work of New Beginnings on cooperation and valuing diversity and focusing on four key areas; developing the social skills of friendships, working well together in a group, managing anger and resolving conflict. Pupils are celebrated who are observed: • working cooperatively to help a group • being a really good friend • keeping calm and overcoming feelings of anger • solving a difficult problem with a friend

11. Going for goals! The theme provides opportunities for children to reflect on themselves as individuals, particularly their strengths as learners and how they learn most effectively. The activities focus on successful goal-directed learning and behaviour: taking responsibility, building feelings of confidence and self-efficacy (the belief that what you do makes a difference) and making wise and balanced choices about our goals. Pupils are celebrated who are observed: • taking responsibility – for their successes and when things go wrong • waiting for what they want; persistence • showing resilience – bouncing back or maintaining effort through a difficult experience or after a mistake or failure • setting and achieving goals

12. Good to be me The theme focuses on understanding feelings and why and how they lead us to behave the way we do – particularly the feelings of being excited, proud, surprised, hopeful, disappointed, worried and anxious. Pupils are celebrated who are observed: • Doing something to be proud of • Responding in an assertive way • Helping someone with a worry • Stopping and thinking when they were angry

13. Relationships This theme is the second of two to focus on feelings. It explores feelings within the context of our important relationships including families and friends. There is also a focus on helping children understand the feelings associated with loss – whether of a favourite possession, a friend, a family home or a loved one. Pupils are celebrated who are observed: • Changing an unfair situation • Being pleased for someone’s achievements • Telling the truth, saying sorry or making amends • Helping someone who is feeling sad or lonely