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Introduction

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What is SEAL?

Secondary 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:

• using 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);
• using 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.

The Secondary SEAL materials reflect the learning from the schools and local authorities involved in the Secondary SEAL pilot (2004–6), and the particular approaches they have found successful.