SEAL Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning

1. SEALSocial and EmotionalAspects of Learning Thurrock LA Conference 8th July 2008

2. Welcome • Liz Rymer and Neil Humphrey • Margaret Bleet • Speakers John Bayley and Action Jackson • Bev Hoyte, Wendi Lee and Margaret Gambardella from Thurrock Healthy Schools • School presenters • Therapists

3. Conference aims • To inspire, challenge and stimulate thinking around SEAL • To consider the significance of SEAL for learners and learning • To provide opportunities to consider the role of leadership in the development of SEAL • To receive information about some of the services that support SEAL • To provide opportunities to reflect, enquire and discuss with colleagues

4. Why SEAL? “One in ten children between the ages of one and fifteen has a mental health disorder” The Office for National Statistics Mental Health in children and young people in Great Britain (2005)

6. Why SEAL? “Knowing how to ‘learn how to learn’ will be the critical skill for the 21st Century” The World is Flat: The Globalised World in the 21st Century, Thomas Friedman (2006)

8. Why SEAL? “The UK has one of the highest rates of self harm in Europe at 400 per 100.000 population, and with suicide the most common cause of death in men under the age of 35” The National Service Framework for Mental Heat - Five years on , Department of Health(2005)

10. Why SEAL? “Good behaviour needs to be taught’ (DFES 2003)

12. Why SEAL? “In an information age, you can chase content but you can never catch it - chase the learning dispositions instead” Mike Hughes (2000)

14. Why SEAL? “What you model is what you get – pupils learn by example” (DFES 2003)

16. Why Seal? “Estimates indicate that self-reported work-related stress, depression or anxiety account for an estimated 10.5 million reported lost working days per year in Britain” Stress related and psychological disorders, Health and Safety Executive (2007)

18. Why SEAL? “narrow accountability based on exam success and league tables....leads to spoon feeding.... Learners who may have achieved academic success at A Level.... struggle to cope with the more independent and self-directed style of learning expected by HE tutors” Nuffield Review HE Focus Groups Preliminary Report (2006)

20. Why SEAL? “Young people who are misusing drugs or alcohol have the highest risk of death by suicide” Mental Health and Growing Up-Royal College of Psychiatrists (2004)

22. Why SEAL? “How we are feeling affects our thinking, but it is also the case that what we are thinking affects the way we are feeling. Our thoughts and our feelings together have a strong impact on our behavioural reactions” (Behaviour Matters 2008)

24. Why SEAL? “By 2020 depression will be the second largest killer after heart disease – and studies show that depression is a contributory factor to fatal coronary heart disease” World Health Organisation report on mental illness (2001)

26. Why SEAL? “The way we think about ourselves affects how we feel and consequently how we behave” (Bill Rogers)

28. Why SEAL? “High achieving girls are especially at risk from the effects of low self-esteem and its consequent effects” Britain on the Couch: Why We’re Unhappier Compared with 1950, Despite Being Richer, Oliver James (1998)

30. Why SEAL? “It’s good when we work together on the topics.” “I like our SEAL assemblies because we all get a chance to take part together.” “It’s good to help the school become a nicer place.” “Our teachers talk about how they feel.” “I like being responsible.” “I can talk about myself and how I feel now.”

32. Why SEAL? “All learning has an emotional base” Plato

33. Why SEAL? Why not?

34. The emotionally intelligent school • John Bayley

35. Break • Refreshments • Displays

36. Local and national updates Liz Rymer & Neil Humphrey July 2008

37. www.bandapilot.org.uk

38. National SEAL update • Primary resource is under review • Year 7 resources updated • New resources available for yrs 8 & 9 • Updated staff development materials including video clips and case studies • Subject specific resources for all available via the Standards CPD site • Anti bullying resources. Whole school stand alone cross- curricular resource • SEAL survey live online now • Many LA sites have SEAL resources

39. SEAL resources to come • Example small group work learning opportunities • Mapping against PSHE, citizenship and other subjects • SEAL DVD • More development groups to share good practice through case studies

40. National targets for SEAL • By March 2009 90% of primary schools across England will have been supported in implementing SEAL. • By March 2009 45% of secondary schools will have been actively engaged in implementing SEAL, supported by lead practice schools Improved practice measured by school self-review tool

41. SEALSocial and EmotionalAspects of LearningWhat is the picture locally in our schools today? Neil Humphrey B&A Consultant Tuesday 8thJuly 2008

42. Introduction • Post • Remit • Audit • Findings • Target

43. Currently Most Primary Schools are working on elements of SEAL either in lessons, assemblies or extra-curricular activities. • Four SEAL pilot Primary Schools were established in 2006. • Chafford Hundred Primary School presented at last year’s SEAL Conference and their commitment to the initiative continues. • Many Primary Schools are involved in Cross-Thurrock projects which support the development of social and emotional skills. These initiatives include, work with Edison, Accelerated Learning, Model Learning and Impact Learning.

44. Currently Chafford Hundred Campus - Seconday School, Hassenbrook School Specialist Technology College and William Edwards School & Sports College have met with Neil Humphrey and begun a plan of action. • The Ockendon School is the Lead school in Thurrock and already implements SEAL across their Year 7 curriculum. • The Gateway Academy, The Grays School Media Arts College and St. Clere’s School have all implemented SEAL through pilot schemes with respective nurture groups. • Belhus Chase Specialist Humanities College, The Grays Convent High School and Gable Hall School have all expressed an interest in SEAL and hopefully today’s event will generate further development.

45. Support Neil Humphrey Behaviour & Attendance Consultant Tel: 01375 – 413642 Mob: 07917 505208 Email: nhumphrey@thurrock.gov.uk

46. School presentations • The Ockendon School • Sue Watson and implementing SEAL across year 7 • The Gateway Academy • Sherryl Bareham and implementing SEAL for a small group of year 7 students

47. SEAL and Thurrock Healthy Schools Scheme • Bev Hoyte and Wendi Lee • Thurrock Healthy Schools Programme Managers • Margaret Gambardella • Massage in Schools

48. Lunch • Buffet lunch • Therapists • In hall • In Room G2 • In Room G3 • Displays

49. Workshops:- • SEAL - what is in it for students? • John Bayley • Hall • SEAL – what does it mean for classroom teachers? • Margaret Bleet • Room G4 • SEAL - what does the SMT need to know? • Liz Rymer • Room G3

50. “I’ve come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in my classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher. I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humour, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanised or de-humanised”. (Ginot 1972)