Primary Assemblies for SEAL: 40 Ready-to-use Assemblies

With the implementation of the social and emotional aspects of learning (SEAL) it is important for schools to embed the SEAL ethos across the whole school. One effective way to complement and support the SEAL programme is to use your school assemblies. Primary Assemblies for SEAL is a collection of 40 assemblies covering: self-awareness, managing feelings, motivation, empathy, social skills. Each assembly features a different story with different characters and themes to provide your students with lessons to help them towards a life of peace, strength and emotional stability. The assemblies are ready to use, and you can rely on the content. Tailor-made to follow the SEAL agenda: new beginnings, getting on and falling out, saying no to bullying, going for goals, it's good to be me, relationships and changes. Each assembly can also be used completely independently of SEAL and are designed to be perfect for all pupils, regardless of age or ability. Save time - no need for preparation! The stories within each assembly are clearly written, with lots of characters. There are simple settings, predominantly at home or in school, against which familiar dilemmas, problems and joyful events are played out. Each assembly is written to be read aloud, meaning that you can pick an assembly off the shelf and deliver it minutes later with the confidence, knowing that you can rely on the content at those times when there is little or no time to prepare. Tailor-made to suit your own approach: Each assembly offers the chance for your pupils to participate so that they can become fully involved in the meaning of the story being told and therefore understand the message better. Though there are clear indicators within most of the assemblies, we have made sure that all of the assemblies included have room for you to tailor them to your school's needs. We have made sure that nothing can get in the way of individual approaches to delivering an assembly. Story themes include bereavement, moving to a new country, working together, supporting each other, dealing with complex emotions, falling out with each other, ways of tacking bullying, exam nerves, perseverance, achieving goals, self-confidence, community and responsibility.

Table of Contents:
1. New beginnings Auntie Joan steps out Our allotment A painful break Being a new boy again 2. Getting on and falling out My foster brother Love thy neighbour School dinners Sisters Don't get involved Bless this house 3. Say no to bullying The silent bully Nisha on the case But it's not our school Miss Watkins finds a way 4. Going for goals Exam nerves The class president Lisa has what it takes The community centre One step at a time Julie gives up smoking Sheena goes where she's needed 5. Good to be me The education social worker Changing faces I'd rather read a book Ballroom champion 6. Relationships The lost puppy Wedding vows Everyone's friend Elec-trickery Visiting Dad Looking after Mum Comrades in arms But does he love me? The street party 7. Changes The school play Confirmation classes Did I ever like this? Different every day A strange land Granddad's funeral

About the Author :
Jane AC West is a freelance writer specialising in education. Jane has written extensively for groups as diverse as the National Trust, Nelson Thornes, Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood, the environmental pressure group Surfers Against Sewage, Badger Publishing and Barrington Stoke. She won the Holyer An Gof Best Children's Book Award for Pip of Pengersick - A Smuggler's Tale, has led several writing masterclasses in West Country schools and is the writer in residence at a school in Falmouth. Gerald Haigh is a former headteacher who has authored many books and written extensively for the education press.