Improving Behaviour and Wellbeing in Primary Schools - Harnessing Social and Emotional Learning in the Classroom and Beyond

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 lea