Author: Mrs Taylor

‘I can recognise my talents’ is this week’s SEAL statement.  Share these with your friends this week – they may learn something new about you!

Our new SEAL statement for this week is ‘I can receive a compliment in a sensible way.’  What would you say if someone gave you a friendship token by paying you a compliment?

‘I can help someone with a worry‘ is the new SEAL statement for this week.  Use your friendship skills to to help others if they have a worry.  You can always ask an adult in school or use the worry box if you have a worry.

This week our new SEAL statement is ‘I can respond to difficult situations in a positive way.’  You may need to use skills from our Getting on SEAL theme to acheive this, for example the peaceful problem solving process.

This half term our SEAL theme is ‘Good to be me’ and our first statement is ‘I can do something that makes me proud.’  The recent Moortown’s Got Talent event was a great way to launch this theme with many children sharing their talents and feeling very proud!

This week our statement is ‘I can give a compliment.’  Maybe you might give the compliment to one of your friends in your class, another child in school or one of the adults who you see around school.  It will make their day!

Our SEAL statement for this week is ‘I can solve a problem with a friend.’

Look out for the Peaceful Problem Solving posters around school to help to solve any problems.  The poster will give suggestions for how to sort out the problem by talking about it with your friend.  All the calming down strategies you looked at last week might come in handy!

Our SEAL statement for this week is ‘I can keep calm and overcome feelings of anger.’

What strategy do you use to keep calm?  Do you do fist flowers, breathe deeply in and out or tell someone how you feel?  For some other ideas look at the calming down strategies on the keyrings around school.

This week’s SEAL statement is ‘I can be a good friend.’ Try to share some friendship tokens around school this week!

There are a number of good books about friendship.  Some examples are:

• Reception –  ‘Friends’ (by Kathryn Cave) and ‘Will you forgive me?’ (by Sally Grindley)
• Year 1/2 – ‘The lonely giraffe’ (by Peter Blight) and ‘The rainbow fish’ (by Marcus Pfister)
• Year 3/4 – ‘The Snow Queen’ (by Hans Christian Andersen) and ‘Voices in the park’ (by Anthony Browne)
• Year 5/6 – ‘Cloudbusting’ (by Malorie Blackman) and ‘Granny Torrelli makes soup’ (by Sharon Creech)

Our SEAL theme for this half term is ‘Getting On‘ and our first weekly statement is ‘I can work cooperatively to help a group‘.

This week staff will be looking for group skills across school and those children will be recognised in our Friday celebration assembly.