Next steps Use this year to identify your priorities and prepare staff for the introduction

1. Next stepsUse this year to identify your priorities and prepare staff for the introduction Questions to consider: • What is the school already doing well? • Is there a positive school climate to enhance the impact of SEAL? Would pupils/ parents agree? • Are there existing curriculum opportunities to explore SEAL? Can these be enhanced? Are there clear gaps in provision? • What is the prior experience of pupils? Are there links with the Primary Hub? • Do staff have the capacity to develop SEAL? Are some areas better served than others? Can we create extra capacity? • How can this be introduced to staff to ensure a shared vision? Is a working group needed? • What may be the staff development needs? (Staff development guidance 3.4, activity 3.4.3, Guidance booklet section 4, Professional Development) • What meeting time/ INSET time is available for the development of SEAL? • How might this impact upon transition work?

2. Resources to support implementation planning • B and A in depth audit- Curriculum • What opportunities to teach behaviour skills exist already? • Core Day 4: Developing EHWB • SEAL guidance documents • Is the school climate ready for SEAL? Consider the learning andsocial climate and the physical environment (pg 23 Guidance booklet, 3.2.1 & 3.2.2. staff development activities) • How are parents made to feel welcome? (Staff development activity 3.6.3) • Audit tool in the SEAL booklet (Tools for profiling, monitoring and evaluation (3.9 appendix 2) pg 9, pages 14- 23) • Pupil rating scales for the SEAL domains (Monitoring and evaluation booklet) • Assessing the starting points (SEAL Resources 3.8.1- 3.8.6 in the Implementation area of the CD)

3. Existing Resources • Pupil questionnaires on attitudes, experiences and bullying may help to identify pupil feelings on the school ethos • Incident logs may identify common behaviour problems and therefore skills needing to be addressed

4. Activity As a group consider : • What preparation needs to be undertaken this year 2. What steps are needed to be taken/ information needed to be gathered to identify your implementation model and main priorities: • Which of the audit tools would be the most useful? (refer to appendix 3, activities 3.2.2 & 3.6.3 and the document ‘Auditing a school’ in the pack) • How might these be used with staff? (Random selection, all staff etc) • Is there a need to involve pupils and parents in the audit process? If so how can this be done? • What are the key decisions to be made and the key actions needed to prepare for the implementation?

5. Timeline for SEAL implementation 2007/ 08 • Identify the priorities and model of implementation for the school • Involve your Educational Psychologist in this process • Consider staff development needs and staff readiness for the SEAL concepts • Identify Primary experiences • Build SEAL into transition work • Trial strategies with a small pupil cohort • Support will be available via network meetings and a SEAL celebration day towards the end of the year 2008/09 • Wider roll out • Support available from Link SEAL schools • Continued network opportunities

6. Contact details • Lorimer Hayes • 07717 543 778 • lorimer@tiscali.co.uk • Zoe Perkins • 07717 543 776 • zoe.perkins@lses.lancsngfl.ac.uk • Helen Smith • 07717 543 777 • helen@helencsmith.co.uk

7. Secondary StrategyBehaviour and AttendanceSEAL Launch 12. July 2007 Barton Grange