Welcome to the SEAL community!
Social and emotional learning helps children and young people to:
‘… learn how to communicate their feelings, set themselves goals and work towards them, interact successfully with others, resolve conflicts peaceably, control their anger and negotiate their way through the many complex relationships in their lives today and tomorrow’.
This kind of learning underpins positive behaviour and attitudes to learning, personal development and mental health and wellbeing. It is at the heart of PSHE, relationships and health education.
Research shows it also helps raise attainment. Social and emotional learning is attracting increasing attention in schools. On this website you will find age-related teaching resources and whole school frameworks to support your work.
Many of them come from the national ‘Social and emotional Learning’ (SEAL) initiative. By registering with us (which is free, quick and easy), you can immediately find and download all of the national SEAL curriculum materials and teacher guidance. There’s a progression in learning objectives that can be used in any school, and training materials if you want to introduce or refresh a whole-school SEAL approach. Click on National Resources then click the Getting Started with SEAL tab.
If you would like regularly updated teaching resources, you can also join our SEAL Community. Set up and supported by leading experts in the field, the SEAL Community is a not-for-profit organisation which aims to promote and develop SEAL through sharing news, practice, resources and expertise. Joining costs £30 for individuals, £75 for schools/settings and £100 for local authorities or other multi-school organisations. Click here to join
News update
According to NHS figures, the number of antidepressant prescriptions being given to GPs has now exceeded one million per year.
Help build the #EmpathyGeneration Empathy Week, the global initiative for schools, will be back for a fifth year from 26th February - 1st March 202
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Sharing practice
Y1 children at Pembroke Dock Community School read the fantastic text ‘The Invisible’ , by Tom Percival, which is great for work on empathy
Last year a group of London schools worked together on a project to tackle social, emotional and mental health needs.
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Resource roundup
The National Crime Agency’s CEOP Education has launched new, free-to-download ‘Connect’ lesson pack —helping pupils aged 9-12 develop online independence and safer connections. In each lesson, pupils are introduced to a new character through engaging situational films.
We hope your school took part in Empathy Day on June 6th but if not you can still access all the resources.<
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Practical tools
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New research
This study investigated the effects of a 3E (early prevention, early identification, early intervention) social and emotional lea
In 2023, several major reports added to the long-standing evidence base for social and emotional learning.
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Top resource
We can think of a thousand ways to use this emotion wheel in the classroom.
This is a great new book from Tina Rae, with activities to support children and young people who have lost someone they love
In I Really Want to Shout by Simon Philip, a little girl uses witty and insightful rhyme to tell us about the things that make her angry...
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