Winter Wonderland Symbol Prompt Song Sheet & Activity Ideas

Here’s an idea for ‘piggy backing’ on a well known festive song to extend and develop Emotion Works foundation language around Emotion Words / Naming and Behaviours / Showing Emotions. Watch the 4 minute video then read over some practical ideas below. Print out the prompt sheet on to A4 or A3 paper. Cut off the […]

Bonhill Primary School Journey to Gold Award

As we embark on the 2024/25 school session, here are the numbers who’ve achieved an Emotion Works Primary School Award to date at the different levels: 73 Bronze Awarded Schools 38 Silver Awarded Schools 5 Gold Awarded Schools COG-gratulations to all of the teachers and staff who have been demonstrating COG-tastic Emotion Works practice across […]

Early Learning Bronze Award examples

We’re feeling very proud of our first 11 settings to achieve our Early Learning Bronze Award and grateful for their assistance and enthusiasm to help us refine our application process. Click on the image below to take a closer look at the criteria and browse our first set of applications, or download the file directly […]

Early Years Practice Sharing with Rosebank Primary School Nursery

A 2-part account covering 2 years of implementing the EW Foundations Programme in an ELC setting, with Claire Challinor Senior EYP and Ashley Kitson EYP from Rosebank Nursery. Watch Session 1 video (54 minutes) from April 2023    Timings 00:00 – Introduction by Claire Murray about her visit to the Rosebank setting and observations that will […]

The Angry Song by Fischy Music – Nursery / ELC example

In this practice example we make use of the symbol movie for ‘The Angry Song’ by Fischy Music and Sticky Kids as a literacy stimulus for exploring the emotion of anger with children in the Nursery & Lower Primary stage. Play Video To use with a nursery group Watch the video and identify any EW foundation […]

Symbols in Practice in Early Learning Settings

This article provides a range of examples showing how symbols added to the nursery environment and incorporated into activity planning can increase opportunities for children to learn and practice emotional language and develop emotional undersatnding. Browse the photos in the first slideshow to see the variety of possibilities. Planning for Seasonal Discussions In the context of […]

Book of the week – 1 cog focus at a time

We really like this idea from Treetop Family Nurture Centre in Fife who identified a series of books over a period of weeks to use as a book of the week. Their clever ‘coggle vision’ planning meant that the books they shared each week were chosen because they contained a lot of words relating to a […]

Nursery or Nurture Room Wall Display for developing emotion vocabulary

This interactive Feelings and Emotions wall display was developed from a proposal we shared with the EYs team at Towerbank Nursery in Edinburgh.The upper half of the display shows photographs of different ages of people showing different emotions,  displayed with a corresponding emotion word.  These photos were found by using an internet photo search, but commercially […]

Emotion Works Christmas Literacy Padlet

A collection of festive stories, movies, songs and other literacy suggestions for linking to Emotion Works practice – all collected together in our  Christmas Literacy Padlet. Browse within the stream in this page or redirect to the Padlet platform using the link below.

The ‘in-the-moment-labelling’ approach in practice

During puppet play, this ASN teacher builds on her pupil’s emerging knowledge of the emotion words happy and sad using the ‘in-the-moment’ labelling approach using a symbol keyring of emotion words. By labelling the emotions happy or sad using a spoken word and a symbol while the child is actually experiencing an emotion himself or […]

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