We are a SEAL School

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 the school.

What are the social and emotional skills and aspects of learning that SEAL is trying to develop?

Social and emotional skills are the skills of making positive relationships with other people, of understanding and managing ourselves and our own emotions, thoughts, and behaviours, and understanding and responding to the emotions and behaviour of others, in ways that are in the best long-term interest of ourselves and others.

There are 5 aspects to SEAL:

• Self Awareness
• Managing Feelings
• Motivation
• Empathy
• Social Skills

At Beverley Grammar School we work to promote these at every opportunity.