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Learning and Teaching

How might we plan our curriculum provision to promote SEAL?

The evidence is clear that, in addition to creating the right environment, any effective whole-school approach needs to include opportunities to explicitly teach and learn social and emotional skills. Explicit learning and teaching has a vital role to play in the overall process of developing social and emotional skills. SEAL includes ideas for learning opportunities that can be used across the school and includes more focused opportunities for pupils with additional needs. There are several places in the taught curriculum where schools could place specific teaching about social and emotional skills:

• integrating social and emotional skills into PSHE, citizenship and tutor time;
• integrating social and emotional skills across subjects;
• holding ‘theme weeks’ that focus on social and emotional skills;
• special interventions to teach social and emotional skills more intensively for those with additional needs in this area.

All teaching staff should be encouraged and supported to identify how their subject might contribute to the development of social and emotional skills and incorporate the SEAL learning outcomes into their planning and teaching. Each subject will have a part to play both by reinforcing and consolidating skills and where appropriate by developing learning opportunities to introduce new skills.