A Primary Circle Approach to Supporting Oracy, Wellbeing and Inclusive Relationships

Making Time to Listen
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-15583-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

‘[This]’ is a model which has demonstrated…that by treating children as adults, they have the opportunity to enjoy a better childhood.’ Lord Puttnam, CBE.

This is the indispensable guide for teachers wondering how to start in building meaningful emotional connections with their pupils. Revealing the strategies for positive relationships and the steps to create calm and self-disciplined behaviour, bestselling author Jenny Mosley also provides a range of ideas about how to deal with ‘children beyond’. Including a range of ready to use active-listening lesson plans, practitioners in early years and primary classrooms can choose from many themes such as 'Getting To Know You', 'Co-operation,' 'Solving Problems' and 'Friendship'.

These activities and practical strategies will help build teachers' confidence and circle time skills, empowering them to sustain this approach through tutorial time, subject teaching, or as part of their work with pupils with special educational needs.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mosley, Jenny

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Erziehungsberatung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungswesen: Organisation und Verwaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Sonderpädagogik, Heilpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgements

- Foreword

- Preface – Why Do We Need Circle-Time Now as it’s Been Around for Ages?

- Introduction

Part One

Foundations of the Circle Approach

1) To Establish Positive Relationships in Your Class – You First Need to be Honest with Yourself

2) Establishing Three Listening Systems

3) Establishing the Golden Rules

4) Incentives Leading to Community Celebrations – Golden Time

5) Children Beyond the Suggestions Already Offered in the Book and the Containment Stage: When Nothing Else Works

6) Helping Your Children Enjoy Wellbeing at Lunchtimes

Part Two

Practice and Impact

7) What Teachers and Children Say About Quality Circle-Time

8) Common Queries Teachers Ask Me

9) How Circle-Time Works in Practice

Part Three

Practical Application

10) Circle-Time Session Plans for Early Years / KS1

11) Puppet Scripts and Cloaks for Make-Believe

12) Circle-Time Session Plans for KS2

13) Parachute Games

14) Extra Creative Visualisations

15) Writing Your Own Circle-Time Plans to Tackle Current, Specific Issues Cropping Up In Your Class

16) How to Run a Circle-Time Staff Meeting so that More Staff Want to do Circle-Time!

- Training available from Jenny Mosley Consultancies

Über Autor(innen)

Jenny Mosley is a well-known education expert and consultant, famous as the founder of Jenny Mosley Training Consultancies and the creator of the widely acclaimed 'Quality Circle Time Model'. She has most recently also written A Circle Approach to Boosting Emotional Wellbeing and Relationships in the Secondary School (2026); Early Intervention Through Circles of Support (2026); 101 Games for Social Skills (2026) and 101 Games for Better Behaviour (2026) all published by Routledge.