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INTRODUCING EMOTION WORKS
Emotion Works is an educational programme and an organisation that puts learning at the heart of emotional and well-being.
Our Social Emotional Learning curriculum has been developed and piloted over a 15-year period by teacher, curriculum designer and educational consultant Claire Murray, with important contributions and feedback from teachers, early years practitioners, and additional support staff every step of the way.
The result is our highly regarded and extremely practical suite of teaching resources and training programmes for anyone involved in emotional education in schools, nurseries and additional support services.
The Emotion Works programme and organisation is a longstanding resource in Scottish Education supporting schools, nurseries and specialist services to deliver high quality and impactful Social Emotional Learning for all.
Over recent years our delivery approach has evolved into an online support and membership service which means we are now able to reach and work with a larger number of schools and educators as part of our growing Community network of practice and change.
Scottish
Curriculum
& Context
The Emotion Works educational programme is ‘home grown’ in Scotland so is very well aligned to the Scottish Curriculum and related policies such as ‘Getting it Right for Every Child’ (GIRFEC). There is also a good overlap with current educational concerns such as the Covid Recovery agenda and cost of living crisis.
We love partnering with Scottish schools and services to work towards shared goals and for the 2023-24 session we’re hoping to establish more partnerships at Local Authority level, so if you’re in a strategic role relating to Mental Health & Emotional Wellbeing then please get in touch to discuss possibilities.
To help with your purchase you may find our latest package information meeting recording helpful.
Our MAIN Programme & Products
All Emotion Works packages provide online training and resources to help schools, teachers and practitioners deliver our highly regarded and widely used emotional education programme.
Emotion Works membership also provides access to a very supportive online community of schools, teachers and practitioners already using Emotion Works.
Hard Copy Resources are included in our FULL member packages, with the option of purchasing extra or new resources at any time.
For schools, we offer a trial package for 6 months, or full packages with basic, premium and platinum features.
SPECIALIST PROGRAMMES
The Emotion Works Literacy Programme has been running throughout the 2021-22 school session to support schools to focus on improving both Literacy and Wellbeing outcomes at the same time since these are 2 vitally important aspects of education to get right during the Covid Recovery period.
We’ve loved seeing all of the Literacy links that teachers have been making and sharing on our social media platforms and we’re looking forward to collating and sharing the impacts of the programme with you all soon.
RECOVERY PROGRAMME
Over the 2020-21 school session we supported hundreds of schools in Scotland to deliver our award winning ‘Recovery Programme’ with significant impacts on learning and wellbeing for thousands of staff and pupils.
SOCIAL IMPACT news
by Claire Murray
I’m very proud to share the news that I recently won an award from Business Women Scotland for the success of Emotion Works as a social enterprise over the course of the pandemic and for the impact Emotion Works has had in schools across Scotland as a result of the Recovery Programme.
testimonials
“At our school we know how important emotional wellbeing is to learning. It has been so easy to adopt Emotion Works into our school because it helps us to value what we already do and it helps us to optimise on teaching the language and understanding that our children need to grow up healthy and happy.”
Head Teacher, West Lothian
EMOTION WORKS IN PRACTICE
Wondering how Emotion Works might look in your classroom or school?
Take a look at some inspiring examples of practice at Dunblane Primary School, Stirling and East Park Specialist School, Glasgow to see some of our resources and programmes in action, and hear from staff and families about the benefits of using Emotion Works for staff & school development as well as pupil learning and wellbeing.
WHO WE WORK WITH
Primary Schools
Nursery & Early Learning Settings
Special Schools & ASN Provisions
Secondary Schools
Educational Outreach Teams
Individual Practitioners
Educational Psychology Services
Local Authorities
Creator and Founder
Claire Murray
Claire Murray is the creator of the Emotion Works programme and founder of Emotion Works as a Community Interest Company (CIC).
She is an experienced teacher, curriculum designer and educational consultant with a strong academic background in psychology and education. As well as her obvious passion and commitment to developing and sharing best practice in emotional education, Claire is becoming increasingly interested in building connections and facilitating community approaches to problem solving in Education.
Claire’s current role involves a mix of development work, training, accreditation and consultancy work as well as overseeing the everyday operational aspects of Emotion Works.
Watch our ‘About Us’ video to meet Claire, see Emotion Works in action and preview the range of resources, training and online support we provide across different educational contexts. Finally, hear some great Teacher and Head Teacher endorsements sharing the impacts Emotion Works is having on the learning, behaviour, attainment and wellbeing of pupils.
“I set up Emotion Works to share my work and expertise in emotional learning & literacy and to connect and work with other people and organisations on shared goals. I run Emotion Works as a social and community focused business where people, rather than profit, are our bottom line. The principles of ‘learning for all’ and ‘wellbeing for all’ underpin Emotion Works as a programme and also as an organisation, where we prioritise relationships, communication, personalisation and engagement as our keys to success.”
Claire Murray
Founder of Emotion Works CIC
Central display in one of our Gold Awarded Flagship Schools, Strathmore Primary School, Angus
We have lots to share about
Our Impact
‘Mental and Emotional Health and Wellbeing’ has been a core curriculum subject within Scottish Education’s ‘Curriculum for Excellence’ for over a decade now.
“A year ago I took to a Facebook forum page (Scottish ASN and Nurture Teachers) to find help on how to support a troubled little soul in my P3 class. I had been working very hard with him on ways to manage his emotions and difficult situations, which were arising daily. The health and well-being programme in the school just wasn’t enough. I felt like I was failing him and the other pupils in my class, and I felt stuck….”
“A lot of the members on the Facebook page provided supportive messages, ideas and quite a few mentioned Emotion Works. I had never heard of Emotion Works and began to do my own personal research into the programme. During this research I realised this was exactly what I was looking for; something visual, clear and simple for children to understand. I started to implement aspects of the programme into my daily teachings when I won a competition for a year’s membership to Emotion Works and gained access to the website. I watched all the training videos and looked at all the examples of work. I thought to myself – finally, something that I can use to really home in on understanding the various aspects of emotions at the right levels for all my learners.
I attended a Saturday morning training event which I used to deepen my knowledge and understanding of the programme and discussed ways in which I could take it forward with my target pupil, class and wider school. A few months later, I attended another training event to feedback how I had implemented Emotion Works, shared some success stories and explained how I planned to take it forward.
Roll on a year and our whole school staff have now been trained in Emotion Works, we have an Emotion Works committee group, I have ran two parent information sessions which were very well received, I have my practitioner accreditation and that little troubled soul from the year before is now talking about his emotions, sharing his own ideas and strategies with other children and understands that discussing our emotions with people around us is a healthy and helpful thing to do. “
things you should know
Our Growing Community
In addition to our core team and contractors, Emotion Works is becoming increasingly known and established as a co-ordinated and joined up community of practitioners, education providers and other interested parties with an interest in sharing best practice in education for emotional learning and wellbeing.
Another recent development which links with our partnership approach to building capacity in local areas is the setting up of 3 new classroom/training rooms in host schools in Glasgow, Fife and West Lothian. The local classroom hubs are spaces for our local trainers to deliver after-school twilights, to host visits from visiting colleagues or for us to run information sessions from and spread the word about our work.
Our accreditation pathways are for practitioners and mentors as well as trainers, which means we have a degree of quality control in ensuring that the Emotion Works vision is being meaningfully shared and supported locally in almost all of the Local Authorities in Scotland. We are also now developing an accreditation process for schools and nurseries thanks to a number of local champions working with us to embed best practice across their settings.
Thanks to our website membership platform and exclusive Facebook practitioner support group, our online community has become an important source of networking and idea-sharing amongst Emotion Works practitioners and supporters in Scotland. Establishing web based information and support has also meant that we are able to reach a wider audience and Emotion Works is now being used in schools and educational settings in other parts of the UK as well as Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and Nigeria.
communication is key
OUR GOALS
membership
Over the past few years we have been developing an online membership service. This added layer of support, which includes online training, digital resources and practice examples, has been extremely valuable in helping people to build capacity in using the approach and has also helped us to establish a very enthusiastic and supportive online community.
Scotland
Emotion Works is ‘home grown’ in Scotland so is very well aligned to the Scottish Curriculum and related policies such as ‘Getting it Right for Every Child’ (GIRFEC) and the Scottish Attainment Challenge. There is a strong overlap with other agendas and initiatives concerned with learning and wellbeing such as the inclusion agenda and the ACEs awareness movement.