A very warm & festive welcome to the
PRIMARY COGMAS LAUNCHPAD
We’re delighted you’re joining us and looking forward to celebrating lots of COG-TASTIC learning with you all at this emotional & eventful time of year!
- Access ready-made seasonal resources across all Primary stages
- Watch the Primary COGmas training recording
- Design your own COGMAS Classroom Award 2025
- Be inspired by lots of practice ideas and real-life examples
- Connect with other schools & teachers and share ideas
- Apply for a COGmas Classroom or Whole School Award from 15/12/2025
Let's Celebrate!
COGMAS 2025 AWARDS
Regardless of where your school might be in the Emotion Works award journey, this COGmas we want to progress and celebrate your own learning journey with the pupils in your class to achieve your very own COGmas Classroom Award.
CLICK for 4 Classroom Activity List Options & Guidance
1. If you OR your pupils are new to the Emotion Works Primary Cog Curriculum or you’re starting again after a break, then following our COGmas Introductory Activity Challenge pack for 2025 is perfect for you.
2. If you OR your pupils have covered Introductory content (Bronze level work) already then take a look at the ‘Bronze Experienced’ activity list to revise your Cog Model work and then work through a number of Cog-specific activities.
3. If you AND your pupils have covered a 1-Cog-at-a-time roll out (Silver level work) already then take a look at the ‘Silver Experienced’ activity list for Cog model revision followed by 1-Emotion at a time type activities.
4. For more experienced teachers and classes who’ve been using Emotion Works for some time – you can select an activity list that works best for you, or create a festive pick and mix list of your own.
So long as you complete 8 activities for Emotion Works learning during the COGmas period at the level you and your class are working at you can apply for a COGMAS CLASSROOM AWARD!
CLICK for How to apply for a COGmas Classroom Award
During the week beginning 15th December Class Teachers will be able to apply for a COGmas Classroom Award online – so long as you’ve completed 8 Emotion Works festive learning activities with your pupils as outlined in the guidance above and provided as slideshows and activities in the resources section below.
It will be an easy process for you to submit your application in one simple step! Don’t worry – we know you’ll be busy so it won’t be too onerous and we’ll even try to make it so you can apply and download your Class certificate with the help of your pupils 🙂
We’ll also award a COGmas School Award if all of the classes in your school take part in COGmas – either by working through a Class activity list each or by joining in with a whole school COGmas project idea of your own.
CLICK for 3 ways to work towards a COGmas School Award
1. Every class in your school completes a Class Activity Checklist and achieves a COGmas classroom award at a level that contributes to capacity building / catch up for new teachers and ongoing progress for your classes & school through the Primary Programme.
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2. All classes and teachers work together on your own idea for a COGmas project resulting in a collective display or showcase of work with contributions from each class demonstrating COGmas activities and Emotion Works learning at the right level for their class or stage.
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3. If you want to take a mix-and-match approach with some classes working on their own Classroom 8 activities and the rest of the classes working together on a bigger project that’s fine too.
CLICK for How to apply for a COGmas School Award
During the week beginning 15th December your School Award Leads will be able to apply for a COGmas School Award online – by simply confirming all classes have taken part in a whole school COGmas project, OR letting us know that every class in your school has achieved a COGmas Classroom Award, OR a combination of the 2 as outlined above.
Primary COGmas 2025
RESOURCES & ACTIVITY IDEAS
Training Recording Link | Activity Sheet Compilation | Suggested Activity Lists | Practice Idea Padlets
New to Emotion Works?
COGmas Introductory
Activity Challenge
If you or your pupils haven’t used Emotion Works before, or you’re revisiting the Cogs after a break, this slideshow and follow up activities introduces the 5 cog model, the Emotion Characters and each of the first 5 cogs.
- 5 Cog Model Introduction
- Orange Cog Activity
- Meet the Characters
- Green Cog Activity
- Yellow Cog Activity
- Red Cog Activity
- Blue Cog Activity
- 5 Cog Model Activity
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The Introductory Workbook provides matching worksheets for the activities in the Introductory Slideshow.
Bronze Experienced?
Cog-focused
Activity Challenge
If you’ve past the stage of introducing a Cog Model to your class and would like to try some 1-Cog-at-a-time activities to count towards a Silver Award in the New Year, this would be a good COGmas programme to follow.
- 5, 6 or 7-Cog Model revision
- Orange Cog Activity
- Green Cog Activity
- Yellow Cog Activity
- Red Cog Activity
- Blue Cog Activity
- Grey Cog or Cog Model
- Purple Cog or Cog Model
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Select worksheets from the Activity Sheet resource previewed in the Flipbook above to create a Pupil Workbook to help structure your COGmas teaching if helpful.
Silver Experienced?
Emotion-focused
Activity Challenge
For teachers and pupils who have worked through a 1-cog-at-a-time approach already, this activity list will help you take a more emotion-focused approach to help work towards a Gold School Award in the New Year.
- 5, 6 or 7-Cog Model revision
- Happy / Excited Activity
- Sad / Upset Activity
- Worried / Frightened Activity
- Grumpy / Angry Activity
- Calm / Chilled Activity
- Multi Emotions Activity
- Choice Activity
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Select worksheets from the Activity Sheet resource previewed in the Flipbook above to create a Pupil Workbook to help structure your COGmas teaching if helpful.
More Experienced?
A 'Pick & Mix' Challenge
of Choice Activities
For more experienced teachers and classes who’ve been using Emotion Works for some time – feel free to select an activity list that works best for you, or create a festive pick and mix list of your own.
- 5, 6 or 7-Cog Model revision
- Choice Activity
- Choice Activity
- Choice Activity
- Choice Activity
- Choice Activity
- Choice Activity
- Choice Activity
You could use slides & worksheets from the other challenge resources, develop your own or use your favourite hard copy and digital resources from previous experience.
Click the links to browse lots of Festive Practice Ideas from past years
This year we’re trying out using Padlet as the platform for COGmas 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 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
Click the links to browse lots of Festive Practice Ideas from past years
One of our first collections of Festive practice ideas