Transcript Well-being of the workforce Excellence and enjoyment Social and emotional aspects of learning (SEAL)

Well-being of the workforce
Excellence and enjoyment
Social and emotional aspects of
learning (SEAL)
A tool to support the review of the
emotional climate of your school.
• Give all staff in the school the opportunity to use this
tool.
• For each statement indicate a score between 1 and
10 (where 1 indicates poor performance and 10 the
best possible performance).
• Are their common highs and lows? What can you do
to address the low scoring aspects?
• The wellbeing of the workforce is key if adults are to
model the social skills and behaviours promoted by
SEAL.
• We put great emphasis on the quality of
relationships in the school - between
children, between adults and children,
between adults and adults.
• We work well together as a staff; we
have our bad days but morale is mostly
good.
• Staff work together on their planning
and to help each other find solutions to
problems.
• We look after the well-being of staff,
paying attention to working
environments and providing support in
combating and managing stress.
• We make sure that the school environment is
welcoming and supports children`s and
adults` well-being – paying attention to such
details as comfortable seating areas, space
for all children to call their own and keep their
belongings, water fountains, clean and
pleasant toilets, varied playground spaces.
• Children are regularly asked to give
their views on the school and learning
opportunities it offers: their ideas, even
those that are challenging, are taken
seriously.
• Staff recognise the effect that their
behaviour, body language and
responses have on children.
• They model the behaviours they
promote.
• Staff always try to maintain a
relationship of respect even when
responding to poor behaviour, for
example, by labelling the behaviour, not
the child, and making time to follow up
behaviour issues positively later on
when the emotional temperature is
lowered.
• We have many strategies in place to
support children`s well-being, for
example, circle time across the school,
peer mediation and buddying schemes,
and opportunities for all children to talk
one-to-one with an adult when they
need to.