This theme focuses primarily on the key aspect of motivation, with a subsidiary focus on self-awareness. It gives an important opportunity for all children’s abilities, qualities and strengths to be valued. The theme provides opportunities for the children to reflect on themselves as individuals, particularly their strengths as learners and how they learn most effectively.

This theme aims to develop and revisit four of the key social and emotional aspects of learning covered in previous themes, through a focus on bullying – what it is; how it feels; why people bully; how we can prevent and respond to it; and how children can use their social, emotional and behavioural skills to tackle this crucial problem. The four aspects of learning in which knowledge, skills and understanding are developed are self-awareness, empathy, managing feelings and social skills.

This theme focuses on developing children’s knowledge, understanding and skills in three key social and emotional aspects of learning: empathy, managing feelings (with a focus on anger) and social skills. Each colour-coded set is organised around developing the ethos of the classroom – extending the work of Theme 1 New beginnings on cooperation and valuing diversity, and focusing on four key content areas:

This theme offers children the opportunity to see themselves as valued indivuals within a community and to contribute to shaping a welcoming, safe, and fair learning community for all. Throughout the theme children explore feelings of happiness, excitement, sadness, anxiety and fearfulness, while learning (and putting it into practice), shared models for calming down and problem solving.

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.

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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.

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This Silver set provides an early intervention for children who need additional support in developing their social, emotional and behavioural skills. It is aimed at children in Years 1 and 2 and links to the Blue set. The ideas in the materials could also be adapted, however, to provide group work for children in Year 3 and in the Foundation Stage.

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Primary SEAL family materials to accompany curriculum work in Theme 7, Changes. The gold set provides a set of activities for families to do together at home when undertaking Theme 7.

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The following activities are designed to be carried out in the staff room to help adults to tune in to the strands of the theme at an adult level, and to experience at first hand some of the activities that the children will be engaging with at different levels. These activities are designed to help you as a staff group to think about the issues involved in working with children on the feelings and behaviours associated with change.

 For Wales, English medium. Note that there are Welsh medium versions of this booklet. Please search under 'Wales: Welsh medium'.

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.

The overview contains scripted and interactive assemblies, as well as learning outcomes from nursery-Y6.