Author: Claire Murray

August Inservice Day Training Sessions for Members

We have now finalised our Training Schedule for 14th and 15th August Inservice Days. Join us for 1, 2 or all 3 sessions depending on where you are in your Emotion Works Journey. PLEASE SIGN UP BELOW TO BE SENT A JOINING LINK AND TRAINING MATERIALS FOR THE DIFFERENT SESSIONS Download flyer Session 19:15-10:30am STARTING […]

Anxiety Resource for Mental Health Awareness Week

15-21st May 2023 is Mental Health Awareness Week, hosted by the charity Mental Health Foundation and this year the theme is ‘Anxiety’. To support Emotion Works schools with their Mental Health Awareness activities over the course of this week, we’re very happy to share this Anxiety Resource (slideshow and worksheet) to help teachers lead classroom […]

Children’s Mental Health Week Connect Resource

To link in with the ‘Let’s Connect’ theme for #Children’sMentalHealthWeek (6-11th February 2023), we’ve pulled together a collection of resources from our Connect Toolkit with activity ideas to create a ‘People & Relationships’ mini-topic for Primary classes. The 11-page pdf resource includes 4 lesson ideas with worksheets that can be shown on-screen or printed out […]

Emotion Works Gaelic Workstream

If you work in or have an interest in Gaelic Medium education please feel free to join our special interest mailing list to be kept informed about our Gaelic Work Stream. At this stage this involves the co-ordination of information & networking meetings, and resource translation activities. Meeting 1 Our first meeting took place on Thursday […]

Classroom Conversations on the death of The Queen

The death of The Queen presents us with a very powerful real life emotional experience to talk about with pupils to help them make sense of and process the events of the past days and coming weeks. Here are some suggestions about how Emotion Works can scaffold and support these classroom conversations between teachers and […]

August Inservice Training Webinars

This year we’ll be delivering our August online training live via the Microsoft Teams webinar platform. This means you can sign up for your whole staff team, or as a group or as an individual depending on the stage you’re all at on your Emotion Works journey. The sessions have been scheduled to coincide with the […]

Package Information Sessions – PERSONAL TO YOU

Is mental health & emotional wellbeing a priority for your school, service or cluster this session? Would you like the reassurance of buying into an emotional literacy programme with an excellent reputation? Do you value a personal touch with your programme selection that also includes implementation support and an aftercare service for your teachers? Throughout […]

Getting Started with Emotion Works: Website & Content Tour

Are you nEW to EW? Or perhaps you’re interested in purchasing an EW package and would like to have a look behind our Member’s Portal and hear more about how our aftercare service supports you with school implementation and classroom roll-out? Here’s a 45 minute video recording of a recent Getting Started content presentation with […]

Emotion Works Bespoke Packages

To arrange a meeting to discuss buying a bespoke package for your school, nursery, service or cluster, please see below We’re currently working on developing an online system that allows you to choose the features of your Emotion Works package – such as the length of your membership, which programmes you have access to based […]

NWCC’s journey towards an Emotion Works Platinum School Award

Introduction Hello! I’m Greg Clark, PT and P7 teacher at North West Community Campus, Dumfries. Myself and the staff team here at NWCC are looking forward to sharing our school’s journey through the Emotion Works Award Programme over the coming weeks .   Our school context and Early Journey – 2017 My personal EW journey […]