Hamish & Milo Primary Programme
A whole-school approach to social and emotional learning and targeted SEMH support, bringing programmes, resources, training and digital tools together in one flexible approach for primary schools and settings.
Our primary SEL and SEMH programme provides the framework, language and content for courageous conversations about children’s mental health, emotions and life experiences, as well as the structure and progression to support children’s social and emotional development.
Hamish & Milo can be used flexibly for targeted small-group and 1:1 intervention, as well as whole-class social and emotional skill development. The programmes give children opportunities to explore situations and experiences in their lives, develop social and emotional skills and understand the complexity of feelings that can affect emotional wellbeing. Structured, progressive sessions combine discussion with creative, practical activities and can be delivered weekly over a term.
Hamish & Milo Primary can be used flexibly around the needs of your children and your existing provision, from targeted small-group and 1:1 intervention to whole-class social and emotional skill development.
One programme. A joined-up approach.
Hamish & Milo Primary helps schools understand individual children’s strengths and needs, proactively build social and emotional skills, and provide targeted SEMH support, with tools to hear the child’s voice, track progress, and demonstrate impact.
One programme range. Flexible for targeted and universal support.
Our ten social and emotional programmes can be used for targeted SEMH intervention with small groups and individual children, as well as across whole classes to develop children’s social and emotional skills. Schools can adapt delivery around their children, priorities and existing PSHE provision.
Our range of social and emotional themes includes friendship, resilience, anxiety, diversity and inclusion, strong emotions and anger, change and transition, conflict resolution, loss and bereavement, sadness and self-esteem.
Actions, words and me – Helping children with conflict resolution
Our conflict programme helps children to understand what conflict is, how it affects them and how to use their communication skills, empathy, listening skills and assertiveness to express, resolve and repair relationships when there is rupture or disagreement.
Celebrating me – Helping children with diversity, difference and inclusion
When we feel different, or that we don’t belong, we can feel confused, uncertain or have mixed feelings. This programme helps children to understand their feelings and celebrate differences and diversity, prejudice and stereotyping, and to have respect for themselves and others.
Resilient me – Helping children with resilience
This programme helps children learn to express and talk about feelings, obstacles and fears to develop and grow inner strength and gain confidence in stepping out of their comfort zone. Children learn about reaching for their hopes and aspirations through developing skills of persistence and problem-solving.
Calm me – Helping children with anxiety
This programme helps children to begin to understand and recognise the signs of anxiety and helps them to know they are not alone with anxious feelings. They will learn ways to express, regulate and share their thoughts so that they feel understood and able to survive through difficult times.
Finding me – Helping children with sadness
Sometimes children know why they feel sad and sometimes they do not. This can be because of deep blocked feelings inside them. In this programme we begin to look at sadness and how this can present. We help children with ways to be able to express and make sense of their feelings.
New beginnings and me – Helping children with change and transition
When change occurs there is anticipation and uncertainty and many children find it unsettling, worrying and sometimes painful. This programme helps children to recognise the range of feelings they have, talk about their experiences and helps them to plan for change and prepare for endings.
Memories and me – Helping children with loss, bereavement and grief
Coping with loss and bereavement is incredibly painful. This programme helps children think about bereavement, share their thoughts and experiences in a sensitive and emotionally containing way and understand how it may affect them so that they are more aware and able to seek the support they need.
Amazing me – Helping children with their self-esteem and self-worth
Learning to appreciate, affirm and celebrate who we are is a powerful gift that every child needs and deserves. This programme helps children recognise, celebrate and value their own self-worth, to feel a sense of pride through a range of activities and opportunities to think and share experiences together.
My friends and me – Helping children with friendships
Our friendships help us to feel we belong, feel connected, happy and loved. But friendships can hurt too. Children need opportunities to talk about their friendships and the range of feelings and experiences they have whilst learning strategies to help them navigate the ups and downs of friendship.
Exploding me – Helping children with strong emotions and anger
Anger can be a scary emotion to have but it is essential that children are given permission to feel and express it. This programme offers ideas, opportunities and activities to share thoughts and feelings as well as practical ways to help recognise the triggers and the physiological effects of anger and strong feelings to help children learn ways to express these feelings safely.
Demonstrate the difference you’re making
Understanding children’s progress matters. Social and emotional development can be difficult to capture, but Hamish & Milo Navigator is an innovative software platform to assess social and emotional learning and demonstrate outcomes.
Navigator tracks changes in children’s feelings, presenting behaviours, and the impact of intervention groups. Share insights, shifts, changes and progress that occur for children through being part of the programmes.
View demographic insights – age, gender, ethnicity and situations or contexts – at whole-school, programme and group level, giving you a complete and nuanced picture of who you are supporting – vital for reporting and supporting your SEND and inclusion strategies.
