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Newsletter November 2009
Contents
Welcome
Celebrating a new start
Implementing SEAL
NICE public health guidence 20
Transition
A European perspective
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 Hello everyone
Welcome to this newsletter which confirms national and international research in the field of emotional intelligence. Naturally we would pick up on positive results, but it seems that they are everywhere this term and we hope this short survey will digest some of the most salient points. Basically - it works!
Best wishes, Sue Allen
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Celebrating a new start
 Last week students, parents and teachers celebrated the results of the first year of a pioneering project at Springfields School in Calne, Wiltshire in partnership with VisionWorks.
KS3 students from various schools in North Wiltshire who spent a day a week at the Centre for Emotional Literacy confirmed that their lives had turned around. Their attendance at school improved in over 90% of cases, and the number of fixed-term exclusions dropped conclusively for each student.
In addition, pupils said that:
1. Attitude improved
2. Improved attendance
3. Improved positive thinking
4. Try harder in school
5. Listen more
6. More confident
7. Better at asking for help
8. Understanding people's feelings.
(results from Professor Harry Daniels of Bath University who appraised the project)
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Implementing SEAL
As we know the government is requiring all primary schools and 50% of secondary schools to be implementing SEAL by 2012. VisionWorks for Schools offers emotional literacy programmes for KS2 and KS3 which make the delivery of SEAL effective, fun and very easy for teachers to just pick up and teach, with minimal preparation.
 To support schools in meeting the 2012 deadline we are offering our
KS2 programme, My World, at a reduced price of £125 in order to
encourage primary schools to get started soon on this key aspect of
education.
Schools who have been using It's OK Being Me, our KS3 emotional literacy programme, have found that its straightforward and simple approach allows for an easy delivery of SEAL.
For more details contact Ruthie on 01249 409001or ruthie@vision-works.net
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NICE public health guidance 20
In September, at the behest of the Department of Health, NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence), produced a report on social and emotional well being in secondary education, which contained many important (and to our mind long overdue) recommendations. Crucially, NICE recommends that this should be an organisation wide and whole school approach, covering a strategic framework, key principles and conditions, curriculum approaches and training and continuing professional development.
The report says, " Good social, emotional and psychological health helps protect young people against emotional and behavioural problems, violence and crime, teenage pregnancy and the misuse of drugs and alcohol. It can also help them to learn and achieve academically, thus affecting their long-term social and economic wellbeing."
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Transition
A recent study at the University of Lancashire investigated the effects of emotional intelligence on the experience of transition from primary to secondary school. Amongst other results they found that:
"The students who received the emotional intelligence development programme displayed greater coping skills in their first year of secondary school as shown by:
· less teacher referrals
· a better track record of doing homework
· a better attendance record
· higher grade point average scores
· fewer incidents of lateness.
It does seem, therefore, that better coping skills are related to the development of emotional intelligence. "
Qualter, P, Whiteley, HE, Hutchinson, JM, and Pope, DJ, (2007) 'Supporting the Development of Emotional Intelligence Competencies to Ease the Transition from Primary to High School' was published in Educational Psychology in Practice, 23, 79-95.
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A European perspective
 VisionWorks writer Janet Grant presented a workshop at a 3 day conference in Turkey in September. The conference was organised by ENSEC the European Network for Social and Emotional Competence and it was an opportunity for teachers and researchers who are promoting social and emotional education to explore evidence-based practice. Mrs Grant met delegates from all over the world and heard about the rigorous research that conclusively shows that children who are taught to be emotionally intelligent invariably become more fulfilled adults.
Knut K Gundersen, Associated Professor of Diakonhjemmet University College in Norway, has proposed research into three leading emotional Intelligence programmes used in Europe including VisionWorks It's OK Being Me for KS3.
Five different countries have expressed interest in doing the research - Norway, Turkey, UK, Malta and Croatia. The programmes we will study are ART (Aggression Replacement Training), VisionWorks and Lion Quest. We see this as a valuable opportunity to analyse, compare and evaluate the impact of these programmes. Watch this space for further details as they become known. |
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you haven't already registered you're missing out on a host of downloadable
resources, assembly ideas and sample modules from our programmes. Register at www.vision-works.net
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If you'd like to find out how VisionWorks could work for you call Sue Allen or Ruthie Alexander Morgan on 01249 409001, email sue@vision-works net or ruthie@vision-works.net or visit our website www.vision-works.net
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