Quality Circle Time in the Secondary School: A handbook of good practice

Jenny Mosley's quality circle time model involves establishing an on-going, timetabled process of circle-meetings for adults and children. As a basis for teaching relationship skills, enhancing self-esteem and building a positive behaviour management and anti-bullying policy, circle time should not only increase confidence and "emotional intelligence" in pupils, but should also contribute towards a positive whole-school ethos.

This classic text provides a rationale, framework and whole-school model for quality circle time specifically for secondary schools and further education colleges. Fully revised and updated, the authors offer over 100 activities and practical strategies to help build teachers' confidence and circle time skills. The book aims to enable teachers to sustain this approach within their SEAL syllabus, tutorial time, subject teaching, or as part of their work with pupils with special educational needs.

Table of Contents

Part 1 The Context for Circle Time

1. Introducing Circle Time in secondary schools
2. Updates to the new edition
3. The wider vision: The Whole School Quality Circle Time Approach – an ecostystemic model
4. Unravelling the Model: Raising self-esteem and morale of staff
5. Setting up the listening systems
6. Establishing codes of conduct
7. Creating and implementing incentives
8. Creating and implementing sanctions
9. Setting up a lunchtime policy
10. The containment stage or how do we cope when nothing works?

Part II The Practice

11. How to make Circle Time work
12. The structure of a circle meeting
13. Case studies and glimpses of Circle Time practice

Part III Activities, games, rounds, drama approaches and quizzes

14. Circle scripts
15. Games and activities for Circle Time
16. Rounds
17. Drama and role-play
18. Quizzes

Part IV Theoretical background

19. Some theoretical background to Circle Time