Improving Behaviour and Wellbeing in Primary Schools

Harnessing Social and Emotional Learning in the Classroom and Beyond

Jean Gross, Sarah Seleznyov

• Publisher: David Fulton Publishers
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781032500720
• eBook ISBN: 9781003832010
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

This accessible resource provides a vivid and practical guide to social and emotional learning and will help primary schools tackle and improve behaviour and wellbeing. With content written by teachers and used successfully in real classrooms, chapters include powerful stories from teachers about their work and the impact it has had. Developed within a theoretical framework of evidence-based strategies, the resources included are fully illustrated with photographs from classrooms and draw upon a useful bank of downloadable resources and proformas. Taking the reader through a journey of how a group of schools worked together to develop practical and effective approaches, this essential resource features:

• Tried and tested strategies for improving behaviour and wellbeing
• Ready-to-use classroom resources – lesson slides; top picture-books for teaching about emotions; 20 simple exercises to help children stay calm; playground conflict resources and a progression in learning emotion vocabulary from Reception to Year 6
• Powerful stories from individual teachers about their work and its impact
• An in-depth understanding of research evidence on what works in tackling social, emotional and mental health needs from best-selling author and expert Jean Gross

Children's social, emotional and mental health needs have never been of more concern to teachers than they are now — this book genuinely brings theory to life and is essential reading for today's primary teachers, SENCOs, support staff and safeguarding leads.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• About the editors
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1 What works in improving behaviour and wellbeing
• 2 The action research project
• 3 Conker the chameleon: how we taught children about the Zones of Regulation at Drew Primary School
• 4 The upstairs and downstairs brain: learning about neuroscience at New City Primary
• 5 How we solved playground problems at Cubitt Town Primary
• 6 How we helped withdrawn children come out of their shells at Selwyn Primary
• 7 How we created calmer classrooms at Redriff Primary
• 8 How we involved children in an initiative to tackle football problems at lunch and breaktimes at Shaftesbury Primary
• 9 How we engaged children with learning at Portway Primary and Pinner Primary
• 10 Colour monsters and feelings wheels at Carpenters’ Primary
• 11 Older children coaching younger buddies at School 21
• Postscript
• Resources
• References
• Index