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
A new initiative to help support children's mental health is being launched, which will see school pupils complete mental health “check-ins”.
We've uploaded the best of what we could find on helping children respond to the current Ukraine crisis.
Sharing practice
Resource roundup
We hope your school took part in Empathy Day on June 6th but if not you can still access all the resources.<
Practical tools
We often use punishments and rewards to tackle attendance problems – but some schools approach it differently.
Try these ideas (and age progression) from Edutopia
Get children to design a poster for your calm-down corner, using the words
Try the weather check-in: If your mood were the weather, what what would it be?” For example, if you’re angry it could be a thunderstorm, or if you
Try this assembly, from primary teacher Deborah Jenkins.
New research
Top resource
This new resource is invaluable in my reception class – there are stories for every occasion which really engage the children and they love the pictures! It’s a great SEAL resource for practitioners and so easy as it’s ready to use and full of brilliant ideas for follow up activities. I can’t recommend it highly enough!
Louise Scruton-Evans, Reception Teacher, Bristol.