SEALSONGS (songs for the social, emotional and behavioural skills programme - SEAL)

These SEALSONGS have the authentic ring of children's ideas and feelings in every line. This, for me, makes it a valuable and empowering set of musical tools ..... One of the biggest challenges for the nationwide roll-out of the National Singing Programme, Sing Up, is giving classroom teachers and support staff the confidence and the basic skills to be able to lead singing sessions without having been specially trained as music teachers. This collection addresses that need with excellent supporting materials and explanations.

HOWARD GOODALL National Ambassador for Singing, Feb 2008

David Stoll’s SEALSONGS is a wonderful gift to any adult who wants to truly help their class or school embed SEAL as a way of ‘being’ with ourselves and others. We all know that song can lift you to a different spiritual dimension – David Stoll has given us the perfect package to help even the most music-shy amongst us to engage young people in the process of creating heart-warming songs as part of a creative team. Thank you, David..... This is an excellent resource.

JENNY MOSLEY Founder of Quality Circle Time: The Heart of SEAL, May 2008

This KS2 project, approved by National Strategies and linked in with the National Singing Programme, was run for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Local Authority in the winter of 2007/8.  The programme comprised lessons in writing song lyrics together with discussion on topics in the social, emotional and behavioural skills programme (SEAL). New songs were then written, based on the pupils' words, and backing tracks professionally produced. 

The SEALSONGS book and CD are now available to other schools and Local Authorities.  Copies - each with a licence for use in one school - cost £19.50, plus £2.65 postage & package: a total of £22.15.  There is a reduction for Local Authority  or school clusters for orders of ten copies or more.  To order a copy or discover more, please contact info@creative-confidence.com.

"SEALSONGS has given the children a fantastic chance to work on something positive that is also hugely creative."

Helen Jenner -  Head of Early Years, Tower Hamlets, quoted in East End Life, August 2008

 The SEAL themes are:

Song 1: New beginnings

Song 2: Getting on and falling out

Song 3: Say no to bullying

Song 4: Going for goals!

Song 5: Good to be me

Song 6: Relationships

Song 7: Changes

Two further general songs - one about writing songs and one providing a Rhyme Game - are also included in the pack.

A version of this programme with the same features but suitable for a single school is available. Schools may choose their own topics for the songs, and more extended projects including the pupils working on the music are also available. Please contact info@creative-confidence.com for details.

"Watching you work last term, it was evident that your skills in developing children's own ideas are very considerable and very valuable - pupils and teachers alike would certainly benefit from working in this way."

Steve Block - Music Adviser, London Borough of Enfield, August 2003

"A&C Black is delighted to include David Stoll on its list of composers of children's songs. Musically inspired and technically brilliant, David can write anything we ask for. His music is tuneful and his harmonies interesting; his lyrics are contemporary, and clever and witty where appropriate."

Jane Sebba - Commissioning Editor, Music Department, A&C Black Publishers, July 2004