Thank you for your interest in taking part in COGmas 2024… the annual festive educational gift from Emotion Works for busy teachers and practitioners to help keep your spirits high and your classrooms cheerful over the last few weeks of term. And new this year – we’re including Early Years & ASN resources so that everyone can take part!
There is a dedicated website page and facebook group you can join to access all of the resources and activity ideas, but if you’d like to receive all of the COGmas news, meeting links, resources & activity suggestions direct to your inbox throughout the festive period, you can sign up here:
Introducing COGmas 2024
'Now that's what I call COGmas'
Our theme for COGmas 2024 has been inspired by lots of last year’s musical & performance style entries. The theme Now that’s what I call COGmas will provide lots of ideas and activities around the expressive arts over weeks 1 & 2, and if you like you can finish off with a special COGmas performance or sharing event in week 3.
COGmas Diary 2024
- Week 1: 2nd-6th December: COGULOUS DISPLAYS & DECORATIONS – get your classrooms, corridors and performance spaces ready for COGmas!
- Week 2: 9-13th December: COGTASTIC CLASSROOM CREATIONS – get creative for COGmas with festive stories, drama, songs and more!
- Week 3: 16-20th December: YOUR BIG COGMAS SHOWCASE Share your COGmas creations in an end of term assembly or showcase of your choice.
🎵 So here it is Merry COGmas everybody’s having fun…
Look to December now, it’s only Just begun!
A look back at COGmas 2023
'The 12 Days of COGmas'
Our theme for COGmas last year was The 12 Days of Cogmas when we set a series of Emotion Works festive activity challenges and provided 12 giveaway gifts for our favourites. Take a look over the entries and winners from last year’s challenge in our COGmas 2023 Padlet.
Non-Members
Even without Emotion Works resources you may still find this resource helpful for classroom discussions about anxiety and feeling anxious.
Click on the first slide to view in full screen and click on the arrows to see all 7 slides to share with pupils.
The 8th Slide is a worksheet and can be downloaded directly here: Emotion Works anxiety worksheet
100 Symbol Books to give away for Mental Health Awareness Week
If you like the look of Emotion Works as a resource for your Primary School and would like to try out one of our Symbol Books using the Anxiety Slideshow above, we’re giving away 100 free copies during Mental Health Awareness Week to the first 100 non-Emotion Works schools who request one.
If you’re a Teacher, Manager or Practitioner in a school that doesn’t yet use Emotion Works, please fill in your details below telling us why you think talking about anxiety in educational settings is helpful, and we’ll send you a complimentary copy to keep and use in school.