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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 […]

ASN Early Level Signposting

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. To use with a nursery group Watch the video and identify any EW foundation words in […]

Early Learning Bronze Award Application Powerpoint

Blue Cog Christmas Regulation Sheets to take home

COGmas 5 Cogs & 10 Emotion Words Slideshow & Activity Pack

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 […]

Early Learning Training Series

This 3-part Training Series runs live during the Autumn and Spring terms each year and is delivered by Claire Murray, programme creator, with examples of Early Years Practice from across the Emotion Works Community. Find out the dates to join the next live course hereOr work through the recordings below which are from the Autumn 2023 […]

Primary Inservice Recording 2 August 2023

Primary School Roll Out: 1-Cog-at-a-time This 1 hour 6 minute video is a recording of a Microsoft Teams Inservice training session delivered on 15th August 2023 for Primary Schools and Teachers who have already completed Introductory Training and / or have experience of Introducing the Emotion Works Cog Model to Pupils at Primary level.The session […]