Essex SEAL Podcast

What are the Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning? The underpinning qualities and skills that help us manage life and learning effectively. There are five social and emotional aspects of learning; self-awareness managing feelings motivation empathy social skills Why is it important to develop these aspects of learning in the primary curriculum? they underline almost every aspect of our lives they enable us to be effective learners they enable us to get on with other people they enable us to be more responsible citizens For more information on the Primary SEAL materials click here

Friday, Nov 09, 2007

Natalie and the Rumours - Theme 3 Bullying

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Natalie has a problem... some one is spread rumours about her which could get her into a spot of bother with Sally Spiteful. What should she do?

Children involved - Owen Henderson, Harriet Texeira, Dylan Hannon, Esther Ogunbiyi, Mohamed Ahmed, Nicola Sinclair, Courtney Howard, Sophie Nind, Nikita King.

Teacher Notes

Discuss with the children how Natalie felt at different points of the story:

a) When Sally threatened to 'pound her'.
b) When she was talking to Callum in class.
c) When the teacher spoke with Sally.

Discuss how rumours spread. Does it always happen deliberately? Get the children to produce a mini drama where a rumour spreads by accident and then one where it is started deliberately. Can the rest of the class work out which is which?

Posted by Whitmore Junior School at 4:15 PM |

Friday, Nov 09, 2007

Natalie Nerd – Theme 1 New Beginnings

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All the children are moving school, but Natalie is going further afield!

Children involved – Luke, Gary, Letitia, Abbie, Jessie, Kyrie,

Teacher Notes...

Discuss with the children the different changes they have experienced recently and imagine how the children in the podcast felt.

Discuss how they as individuals and as a class could help a child:
• New the their class
• New to the school

Get the children to make a drama showing examples of how they could make somebody new feel welcome.

Posted by Whitmore Junior School at 4:14 PM |

Friday, Sep 28, 2007

Annie Excuse – Theme 4 Going for Goals

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Meet Annie Excuse – she’s full of excuses, are you?

Children involved – Luke, Gary Letitia, Abbie, Stewart, Jessie, Kyrie, Beswick

Teacher Notes...

Get the children to think and write down the different excuses they make for not doing things at home.

Get the children to discuss and write down excuses for not doing things at school. Mind map these on the board.

Get the children in pairs to think of the responses for each of the excuses listed on the board and produce a paired role play with one person making the excuse and the other responding to them.

Discuss the reasons people make excuses, why excuses they are a form of lying to other people and how the person is actually lying to themselves.

What would be the consequences of always making excuses for not doing things?

Posted by Whitmore Junior School at 7:54 AM |

Friday, Sep 28, 2007

Luke Lucky – Theme 1 New Beginnings

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Luke wants to be part of Callum’s gang and he’ll do anything to join it!

Children involved – Luke, Gary, Letitia, Abbie, Dylan, Craig, Jessie, Kirsty, Danny, Joy

Teacher Notes...

Discuss why people break rules and reinforce the consequences of breaking them. Think of the different rules that may be broken in school and discuss their consequences.

Write a pros and cons list for breaking rules.

In pairs get each child to tell their friend they are going to break a rule. The partner has to try to convince them not to do it.

Discuss how it feels when trying to convince someone not to break a rule. In the podcast Natalie lies to Mrs Harsh in order to help Luke. Was she right to lie? Discuss this as a class.

Posted by Whitmore Junior School at 7:18 AM |

Friday, Sep 28, 2007

Leah Liar – Theme 2 Getting on and Falling out

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Can a Leopard change its spots? Leah Liar tries to, let’s see what happens!

Children involved – Luke, Gary, Letitia, Abbie, Jessie, Kyrie,

Teacher Notes...

Get the children to list the different ways they can judge each other.
Discuss the response of Mrs Whinger to Leah in the podcast.
How did her view of Leah change?
How did this make Leah feel?
What did Mrs Whinger do when she realised she had prejudged Leah?
How did this make Leah feel?
How can we use that response as a model?

Get the children to make their own drama showing a scenario where sometimes people a prejudged.

Posted by Whitmore Junior School at 7:00 AM |

Friday, Sep 28, 2007

Jenny Jealous – Theme 2 Getting on and Falling out ‘Working as a Team’

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Jenny wants to win the competition, but can she work as part of a team to do it?

Children involved – Luke, Gary, Letitia, Abbie, Jessie, Kyrie, Mandisa

Teacher Notes...

Play a variety of team games and discuss how a team that works together and encourages each other will be the winning team.
Discuss why there is no ‘I’ in team.
Get the children to think of ways they can encourage the whole class as they work as a team each day.
Get the children to imagine they are the two different groups in the podcast. Get the children to act out the different types of behaviour you would see
• in a group that are working together
• in a group where they are not working together

Discuss how people felt when acting in each of the groups. How can they use this to help them in the future?