Exploring the explicit curriculum resources: New Beginnings

1. Exploring the explicit curriculum resources: New Beginnings www.sealcommunity.org

2. 1. Two teams… 2. When given the signal, line up in birthday date and month order as quickly as you can (oh yes, without speaking!). 3. When your team is ready, put your hands in the air. Don’t go away! A taste of SEAL www.sealcommunity.org

3. Share one interesting fact about yourself with the person standing next to you… A taste of SEAL www.sealcommunity.org

4. What resources are there to support the primary SEAL curriculum? (English and Welsh Medium) • Guidance Manual • Whole school resources (posters, photos, checklists etc.) • Staff development ideas (Purple booklet – one per theme) • Scripted, interactive assemblies + ideas for follow-up (Theme overview) • Seven sets of age-appropriate curriculum activities for use in class, each related to the whole-school theme (includes learning outcomes for each age-range) Red booklet (Nursery and Reception) Blue booklet (Y1 & Y2) Yellow booklet(Y 3 & Y4) Green booklet (Y5 & Y6) • Ideas for use at ‘Wave 2’ (small group work) (Silver booklet KS1) • Ideas for sending home to involve parents/families (Gold Set ) and for working with parents in small groups at school (Family SEAL) www.sealcommunity.org OHT 2.4

5. New beginnings… Belonging to a community Self-awareness: Feeling valued Emotions: happy, sad, excited, scared Managing the feelings associated with doing something new – stress, worry, anxiety, fear (calming down) Social skills: Sharing, taking turns, playing with others, welcoming and valuing others What do we already do? How would SEAL fit with that? Class chartersCircle Games Paper-Chains Welcome packsSecret friends Name Games Quizzes Group challenges Home group flags Calming down posters Songs – ‘Consider Yourself’ Content of Theme 1 www.sealcommunity.org

6. Some examples of work from Theme 1:New Beginnings : Belonging www.sealcommunity.org

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8. Feeling valued www.sealcommunity.org

9. Classroom charters www.sealcommunity.org

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11. Welcoming others… www.sealcommunity.org

12. Introduction Intended learning outcomes Links to: Personal and Social Development, Well-being and Cultural Diversity or Personal and social education framework for 7-19 year olds Skills framework for 3-19 year olds in Wales Key vocabulary Whole school resources needed Suggested whole-school focus for noticing and celebrating achievement (application of SEAL) Activities (starters, learning opportunities) Resource sheets to support activities Ideas for ongoing activities, questions for reflection and enquiry, review The structure of the curriculum booklets: Primary www.sealcommunity.org

13. Learning outcomes: Y1 and Y2 www.sealcommunity.org

14. Key vocabulary: N, R, Y1 and Y2 www.sealcommunity.org

15. Noticing and celebrating the application of focus SEAL skills across the school… www.sealcommunity.org

16. Take some time to look at the theme and consider How does it fit with what we do already? How can it enhance, and bring together what we do already? Feedback: 1 positive, 1 concern, any questions Activity: Exploring the theme www.sealcommunity.org

17. Y 3 + 4 Photocards (Frightened) Feeling detective poster Emotional barometer Working together self-review checklist Yr 5 + 6 Photocards Feelings detective posters Peaceful problem-solving poster Working together self-review check-list Emotional barometer Foundation Phase Feelings identikit Photocards – happy, sad, scared, excited Feelings detective posters Feelings fan Problem-solving poster Are we ready for circle time? Poster Whole school resources needed www.sealcommunity.org

18. Whole school tools: Photocards www.sealcommunity.org

19. Whole-school tools: Posters www.sealcommunity.org

20. Feelings fans www.sealcommunity.org

21. Primary: The emotional barometer www.sealcommunity.org

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23. Primary: Working together self-review checklist www.sealcommunity.org

24. ‘It helps me learn’ ‘It means there’s a good learning atmosphere’, ‘It’s made me more happier’. ‘People sit down and are calm’, ‘We can talk about how we feel’, ‘People have learned how to control themselves’, What do the children say about the impact? www.sealcommunity.org

25. ‘When I go outside I see little kids and big kids playing together’, ‘It helps you know how other people feel – like you might think it’s just a game but they are really upset’, ‘The playground is better, like if you say ‘It worries me’ they’ll stop doing something.’ www.sealcommunity.org

26. They take responsibility, help each other, exercise choice. They can organise themselves and say ‘I was a good learner because ....’ They can go for goals. All our Year 6 visualised the day they would get a Level 4 and wrote action plans to help themselves achieve it. They use ‘I’ language – ‘When you look at me like that I don’t like it because I think you might be going to do something scary.’ They’ll say things things like ‘Can I give X a house point because he really helped me.’ They can see when another child is having difficulties and say things like ‘I can see you’re getting upset.’ What do staff say about children? • Staff report significant changes in the children. www.sealcommunity.org

27. Where can I find all this stuff? See Handout: Accessing Resources: SEAL (Primary) www.sealcommunity.com www.sealcommunity.org