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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
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?
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