Author: Claire Murray

Anxiety Resource for Mental Health Awareness Week

15-21st May 2023 is Mental Health Awareness Week, hosted by the charity Mental Health Foundation and this year the theme is ‘Anxiety’. To support Emotion Works schools with their Mental Health Awareness activities over the course of this week, we’re very happy to share this Anxiety Resource (slideshow and worksheet) to help teachers lead classroom […]

Children’s Mental Health Week Connect Resource

To link in with the ‘Let’s Connect’ theme for #Children’sMentalHealthWeek (6-11th February 2023), we’ve pulled together a collection of resources from our Connect Toolkit with activity ideas to create a ‘People & Relationships’ mini-topic for Primary classes. The 11-page pdf resource includes 4 lesson ideas with worksheets that can be shown on-screen or printed out […]

Classroom Conversations on the death of The Queen

The death of The Queen presents us with a very powerful real life emotional experience to talk about with pupils to help them make sense of and process the events of the past days and coming weeks. Here are some suggestions about how Emotion Works can scaffold and support these classroom conversations between teachers and […]

Emotion Works Award News!

The winner of the category was chosen because the judges felt she was making a positive and wide impact on Scotland’s school children. Taking her background in education, she’s developed a programme to help children and young people with their emotional literacy which has been crucial during this trying year. I’m very proud to share […]

Coggle-tastic Cascaders!

When Emily Sinclair and Nicky Hocknull from Bankton Primary School in West Lothian expressed an interest in trying out our ‘School Cascader’ package last June, it was a pleasure to pencil in a couple of meetings to prepare them for delivering their staff training in August. Emily and Nicky turned up to our first meeting […]