Research School Network: Improving social and emotional learning for everyone, and helping children most in need Bonita Liang and Alice Zaniolo discuss how Newham’s Educational Psychology Service can support schools

It’s never been more important to improve social and emotional learning in our schools, for every child.

We know that some children will need more help

In the video at the top of this blog, Bonita Liang and Alice Zaniolo discuss how Newham’s Educational Psychology Service can support schools in their general approach, and give extra help to children who need it most.We also recommend that you check out the excellent audit and discussion tool from the EEF. This has been created to get school leaders and their teams talking about social and emotional learning.

The conversations can help you to shape your view on where your school is on the path to providing all your children with the social and emotional skills that underpin personal and academic development – from early stages to developed practice.

The tool represents a different way of thinking about an audit. We know that schools are under intense scrutiny, so this is not another ​‘tick box’ process. The aim is to get you talking about your practice in ways that genuinely support you to understand what you are doing that is working, as well as promoting some new thinking and ideas.