Background
How does SEAL contribute to the National Healthy Schools Programme?
SEAL can help schools to meet the criteria for delivering the Emotional Health and Well-being theme of the National Healthy Schools Programme. It provides a whole-curriculum framework for promoting the social and emotional skills that are necessary for positive emotional health and well-being now and in the future. It also encourages a whole-school approach to creating an emotionally safe environment where these skills can be learnt and practised.
SEAL and emotional health and well-being are not the same, although they are closely linked. It is not possible to successfully promote emotional health and well-being without helping children and young people to develop social and emotional skills and it is not possible to teach these skills effectively unless it is in an environment which is designed to support the emotional health and well-being of all the learners involved.
2.12.1 Activity
National Healthy School Standard Audit and Prompts for Emotional Health and Well-being
Video clip: Sir Al Aynsley Green's presentation "SEAL and mental health"