The Angry Song by Fischy Music

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 EW foundation words […]

Fear Emotion Category – stimulus and activity ideas for cog conversations

To help you take a deeper dive into exploring the concept of Fear with your learners using the Emotion Cogs, this article provides a range of Literacy Stimulus ideas that will be motivating to use with your class or group for cog conversations. We haven’t identified a particular level of learning or school stage for […]

Parkhill Primary School Display

Here’s a great idea for a whole school Emotion Works display with each class contributing their own class work within a large cog shaped piece of paper. Well done to the staff and pupils at Parkhill Primary School in Fife, and many thanks to HT Susan Harper for sharing the photos and this account about […]

Word learning using ‘In-the-moment labelling’

In the early years the Emotion Works approach focuses on developing foundation language for the different cog concepts.In this practice article we focus in on the learning and teaching process involved. The ‘in-the-moment’ teaching process To help a young child learn a word they don’t yet know, we recommend an approach that involves naming an […]

Sadness Emotion Category – stimulus and activity ideas for cog conversations

To help you take a deeper dive into exploring the concept of Sadness with your learners using the Emotion Cogs, this article provides a range of Literacy Stimulus ideas that will be motivating to use with your class or group for cog conversations.We haven’t identified a particular level of learning or school stage for the […]

Happiness Emotion Category – stimulus and activity ideas for cog conversations

To help you take a deeper dive into exploring the concept of Happiness with your learners using the Emotion Cogs, this article provides a range of Literacy Stimulus ideas that will be motivating to use with your class or group for cog conversations. We haven’t identified a particular level of learning or school stage for […]

Books, Stories, Film Clips and other resources for Multi-emotion discussions

Here’s a starter list of recommendations and suggestions for popular books and other resources that are useful for Emotion Works discussions where multiple emotions feature within the same stimulus. If you want to source your own, what you’re looking for is a book, story, film clip or another stimulus that features a variety of emotion […]

Emotion Word Spotting using the ‘In my Heart’ book

from the Recovery Programme Competition Gallery Carleton Primary School, Glenrothes “Our Primary 2s at Carleton primary school have been looking at emotions through different texts including ‘In my Heart by Jo Witek’. They have really enjoyed using the cognifying glasses to help them identify the emotion words.”We always love seeing cognifying glasses being used to […]

Getting to Know You Activities and the ‘Connect’ Resource

A perfect set of resources for the start of a new session when you’re getting to know a new class or group. The toolset and guidance booklet will also be a helpful source of information and ideas for nurture practitioners and others working with pupils in more targeted ways towards developing positive relationships. Connect Relationship […]

Dunblane Primary School’s Journey through the Recovery Programme

From Cogglebox to the Cog Jog!Rachel Aylott, Principal Teacher (HWB) shares the cog-tastic journey taken by staff, pupils and parents at Dunblane Primary School, Stirling using the #EWrecovery programme throughout the 2020-21 session.Click through the slideshow, or watch the 40 minute video to see and hear Rachel sharing the story in her presentation at our […]

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