Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL): Improving behaviour, improving learning

Whole-school SEAL

The Social and Emotional Aspect of Learning (SEAL) materials are designed to provide a whole-school approach to promoting social, emotional and behavioural skills. The materials provide a range of resources that can be used across the whole primary school.

These resources include a set of high-quality photographs to illustrate a number of emotions, a set of posters and other ideas for promoting SEAL across the school. The following resources can be found in the attached files.

Whole-school resources

• Working together self-review checklists
• Feelings detective poster
• Problem-solving poster
• Peaceful problem-solving poster
• Assertiveness poster
• ‘Are we ready for circle time?’ poster
• ‘The fight’ poster
• Emotional barometer resource sheet
• Feelings fan resource sheet
• Ways to calm down resource sheet
• Fireworks poster
• Feelings, thoughts, behaviour resource sheet
• 80 photocards with different emotions
• interactive texts in presentations
• a list of useful books for children, linked to the themes
• words for core feelings
• music for different moods
• a whole-school booklist
• Identikit – an interactive program which allows you to select different eyes and mouths to create expressions on a face.

See the Related Links panel for resources related to continuing professional development (CPD) and family activities.