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 […]
An Inspiring Practice Sharing Input linking Emotion Works to Sport, the Euros & School Sports Day
Find out how Principal Teacher, Greg Clark and staff at North West Community Campus (Primary), Dumfries have been linking their Emotion Works Teaching in with the themes of Football and the Euros, Sport generally and School Sports Day. For context, this practice sharing input was recorded in June 2021 – confusingly 1 year after Euro […]
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 […]
A school blog example showcasing a Pupil Film making project
Anxiety Resource for Mental Health Awareness Week
Information Sharing with Parents & Families
A collection of resources from the EW Library and schools from the EW Community to help with sharing information about Emotion Works with parents and families. Emotion Works Parent Slideshow Our own slideshow that we created for schools to show on-screen at a parent information session about Emotion Works.A handout / flyer of the slides […]
Greenburn School Emotion Story Boxes
This set of Emotion Works Story Boxes have been developed by staff at Greenburn School, South Lanarkshire to help their pupils with identifying and naming their emotions and also to manage and regulate them too. Along with other specialist settings who use the Emotion Works programme with pupils with Learning Disabilities, Greenburn staff are drawing […]