Theme 1  New beginnings

This theme focuses on developing children's knowledge, understanding and skills in four key aspects of social and emotional aspects of learning.

The theme offers children the opportunity to see themselves as valued individuals within a community and to contribute to shaping a welcoming, safe and fair learning community for all. Throughout the theme children explore feelings of happiness and excitement, sadness, anxiety and fearfulness, while learning (and putting into practice) shared models for 'calming down' and 'problem solving'.

Theme 2/3 Getting on and falling out

This theme focuses on developing children's knowledge, understanding and skills in three key social and emotional aspects of learning: empathy, managing feelings (with a focus on anger) and social skills. We will be focusing on four key content areas: developing the social skills of friendship, working well together in a group, managing anger and resolving conflict.

Theme 4 Going for goals!

This theme focuses primarily on the key aspect of motivation, with a link to self-awareness. It gives an important opportunity for all children?s abilities, qualities and strengths to be valued. The theme provides opportunities for children to reflect on themselves as individuals, particularly their strengths as learners and how they learn most effectively. We will be looking at taking responsibility ? for their successes and when things go wrong. Waiting for what they want; persistence (keeping going) Resilience - bouncing back or maintaining effort through a difficult experience or after a mistake, setting and achieving goals.

Theme 5 Good to be me

This theme is the first of two focusing specifically on feelings. It explores feelings in the context of the child as an individual developing self-awareness and helping the child to realise that it really is "Good to be me". The theme is about understanding our feelings as well as considering our strengths and weaknesses as learners. It aims to develop knowledge, understanding and skills in three key social and emotional aspects of learning: self-awareness, managing feelings and empathy.

Theme 6 Relationships

This theme is the second of two focusing specifically on feelings. It explores feelings within the context of our important relationships including family and friends. The theme aims to develop knowledge, understanding and skills in three key social and emotional aspects of learning: self-awareness, managing feelings and empathy. In addition, there is a focus throughout the theme on helping children understand the feelings associated with an experience that we all need to cope with at some time: that of loss - whether of a favourite possession, a friend, a family home, or a loved one.

Theme 7 Changes

This theme tackles the issue of change and aims to equip children with an understanding of different types of change, positive and negative, and common human responses to it. The theme seeks to develop children?s ability to understand and manage the feelings associated with change. It aims to develop knowledge, understanding and skills in three key social and emotional aspects of learning: motivation, social skills and managing feelings.