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Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL)

Date of issue: Aug. 2007
Audience: Heads and deputies

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SEAL is a comprehensive approach to promoting the social and emotional skills that underpin effective learning, positive behaviour, regular attendance, staff effectiveness and the emotional health and well-being of all who learn and work in schools. It proposes that the skills will be most effectively developed by pupils and staff through:

  • a whole-school approach to create the climate and conditions that implicitly promote the skills and allow these to be practised and consolidated
  • direct and focused learning opportunities (during tutor time, across the curriculum, in focus groups and outside formal lessons)
  • learning and teaching approaches that support pupils to learn social and emotional skills and consolidate those already learnt
  • continuing professional development for the whole staff of a school.

Excellence and enjoyment: Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (Primary SEAL) and Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning for Secondary schools (Secondary SEAL) can be viewed or downloaded from the SEAL website.