A very warm & festive welcome to the
EARLY LEARNING
COGMAS LAUNCHPAD
We’re delighted you’re joining us and looking forward to celebrating lots of SYMBOL–TASTIC learning with you all at this emotional & eventful time of year!
- Access ready-made seasonal resources for Early Level learning
- Watch a summary training recording for rolling-out the Festive Feelings project
- Mix and match our own suggestions with ideas of your own and interests of your children
- Be inspired by practice ideas and real-life examples from previous years
- Connect with other settings & practitioners to share ideas
All about our COGmas 2025
FESTIVE FEELINGS AWARD
Plan and deliver 8 activities
To achieve a Festive Feelings Award for your setting you should aim to cover at least 8* foundation language activities with your pre-schoolers or Early level ASN learners from the Festive Feelings activity pack (below), OR…
You can also use your own ideas or examples from last year’s COGmas if you prefer. *So long as you deliver at least 8 festive activities that cover a nice breadth of language learning across the different emotion categories, that is fine. We’ll also accept a total of 5-7 activities with extended engagement if some activities have lasted longer than planned.
CLICK for How to apply for an Award
During the week beginning 15th December you’ll be able to apply for your Award on the Early Learning COGmas launchpad using a simple tick box form and by sharing 1 example of practice (or a link to a practice post you’ve shared on social media already)
Please note – you are NOT required to record and share all 8 of your practice examples to achieve your award.
The Festive Feelings Activity Pack
RESOURCES & ACTIVITY IDEAS
Activity Guidance | Festive Feelings Song Recording | Training Recording Link | Practice Idea Padlets
Project overview
This overview is included as the first page in the Activity Pack
Festive Feelings Song
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About the Training Recording
- This live event was 1 hour 15 minutes and the unedited recording of the live delivery is provided here.
- If you’re already familiar with the Emotion Works curriculum and how we deliver it in the Early Years / with Early Level ASN pupils you might feel happy to follow the Activity Guidance to make a start on the festive feelings programme.
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Practice Sharing Padlets
Last year’s ‘Now that’s what I call COGMAS ‘ theme saw some lovely festive practice examples being shared by a number of Early Learning settings – link through to the padlet to take a look.
This year we’re trying out using Padlet as the platform for COGmas & Festive Feelings practice sharing where you can post directly to the padlet yourself – even if you don’t have a padlet account. The image below is a preview of the first section. To browse & post on the live padlet in a new window click here
The image above is a screen grab of the first section in the padlet. To relocate to the padlet click here
PRIMARY RESOURCE
Introducing the Emotion Cogs
If your learners aren’t already familiar with the Emotion Cogs, this is our 5 Cog Model for a helpful introduction.
Provided here as a B&W worksheet for pupils to create and colour their own, and as a coloured slide in the PDF 5 Cogs & 10 words slideshow.
PRIMARY RESOURCE
5 Cogs & 10 Words
Show the 5 Cog Model on-screen along with subsequent slides to help you unpack 10 different COGmas Emotions using the Emotion Works approach.
Includes a printable activity sheet for follow up work.
PRIMARY RESOURCE
Cogmas Bauble
Activity Pack
25 Slides and worksheets with a Cog Bauble theme to create your COGmas displays, compose festive stories, and engage in single cog work.
See the weekly Primary Activity sections below for examples & ideas for using these.
Early Learning Get-together
Post or browse Festive Feelings practice on our EARLY LEARNING PADLET instead
Or apply for a FESTIVE FEELINGS AWARD HERE