Connecting Through Colour Curriculum

Welcome! On this page you’ll find everything you need to get started with Connecting Through Colour. You can watch our walkthrough video, explore the curriculum overview, and download the schemes of work.

Each scheme is organised by year and term, and brings together session plans, teaching ideas, and all the resources you’ll need in one easy-to-use PowerPoint.

All of our resources are open source because we believe in sharing freely. Please feel welcome to use them in your own setting — we only ask that you give credit to Connecting Through Colour.

The Education Endowment Foundation and CASEL advocate for the SAFE principles in social and emotional learning. Meta-analyses show that approaches meeting all four SAFE criteria are more effective in enhancing social and emotional competencies and prosocial behaviors (Cipriano et al., 2023). Connecting Through Colour is based on these best practice principles.

The outcomes show the goals of Connecting Through Colour, working with the pastoral teams and the school’s overall approach. These outcomes are based on Bloom’s Affective Taxonomy (Anderson & Krathwohl, 2009) to illustrate progress, while also acknowledging that growth is a personal and non-linear journey that depends on each student’s unique starting point and situation.

Connecting Through Colour enriches CASEL‘s educational framework through the integration of the foundational priorities for social and emotional learning and development, as delineated by the co-researchers, which encompass students, staff, and parents over the course of the three-year study of metaemotion.

5 Year Curriculum Overview