This is a families display pack which looks at different families and how we belong with our families. A great conversation starter for children to understand that all families are different.
Included in the pack:
5 different banners
14 display words – mum, dad, step mum, step dad, foster mum, foster dad, younger brother, younger sister, older brother, older sister, baby brother, baby sister, grandma and grandad
14 A4 posters showing different families
Strength cards for older pupils. This is a huge set of cards displaying over 100 different strengths and talents. Perfect for work on self esteem. There is also a list of 30 ways on how to use them along with some useful questions on the cards and on the back of the cards. Choose one or two questions to ask the pupil.
Strength cards are an amazing tool for self esteem. You don’t have to use all of the cards but I would suggest you get them all printed, laminated and use a handful you think are relevant to the pupil(s) you are working with.
Being a good sport social skills workbook will help pupils to understand sportsmanship.
This looks at skill, luck, feelings around winning and losing, cheating, poor sport and will cumulate to make a ‘Losing plan’ This will enable pupils to think about how they will act if faced with a situation where they haven’t won a game, competition or sport.
There are 20 pages in the workbook, the second sheet being blank if you want to print duplex.
This workbook is suitable for KS2 upwards.
Growth mindset natural and calming posters- This is a set of posters to inspire children to try hard and understand that it is ok to make mistakes. Mistakes help us learn. These have nature backgrounds.
These print beautifully on A3 paper so are great to display.
Use each quote as a lesson plan and display one each week in the classroom.
There are 19 different quotes altogether.
These are useful in so many ways:
Use them during circle-time to open up discussion.
Display one each week in your classroom and discuss. Refer to the poster often to reinforce how important it is to try your best.
Create lesson plans around one of the posters.
This emotions bus resource is for pupils who have an special interest in buses. It is colourful, bright and engaging.
You can use this as an emotional register perhaps tracking throughout the day. You could use it as a talking point and teach emotions by placing different faces in each window. Can the pupil identify and label the facial expressions? There are lots of words included so the pupil can learn new vocabulary for the facial expressions that they can see. Ill could be sick, poorly and so on.
The bus template could be used just for drawing or writing in the windows. If laminated the pupil could use a whiteboard pen.
What is included in the emotions bus?
A bus template
25 emoji faces to cut out
88 Small feeling word cards
Examples of how to use
Can you label the feeling each person on the bus has?
The driver looks upset. What is the reason?
Why is one of the people angry?
Which person is sad?
Which feeling do you have? Where are you sitting on the bus? Can you point?
Can you put a happy face on the bus?
Can you put a sad face on the bus?
What other words could you use for the word sad?
Benefits of the emotions bus
It is fun and engaging
Pupils can learn to recognise facial expressions
They can learn to label their feelings and learn new vocabulary
Pupils will be able to identify and express why they feel like they do
Other uses for this resource
Print the PDF larger and make it up as a wall display, all the pupils who visit your room could add their facial expression to the bus.
This is a worry train express, a way for younger pupils or pupils with an interest in trains to manage their worries.
It consists of a train with two carriages. The train has a window and some emojis that the pupil can stick into the window to represent how worried they are.
One carriage is for the pupil’s worries. They can write or draw on the tickets.
The other carriage has calming strategies. There are six to try and there are tickets for pupils to come up with their own.
There are two stations to visit. The first station is where worries are talked about and decisions made on whether this worry is in their control or not in their control. They can make a plan if it is in their control(there is a sheet available for writing or drawing).
If the worry is not in their control they continue to the next station where they can leave their worry at the station. The emoji can be changed at this point to perhaps a ‘happy face’.
Benefits of the worry train express
It is fun and engaging
Pupils can offload their worries
They can learn some calming strategies
They can learn about control and planning
They can learn to let go of their worries
Pupils will learn facial expressions and some vocabulary around worries
Other uses for this resource
Print the PDF larger and make it up as a wall display, all the pupils in your group could add their worries to the carriage.
This self-care potion activity is a fun and engaging for pupils to look at all the things that help with their self-care. There are two potion bottles to choose from. Print out a bottle and print out the pocket. Cut them out carefully and stick the pocket to the bottle.
Print out and cut out some of the droplets of potion.
Firstly go through the list with the pupil and get them to write their ideas on one of the sheets. They can add any others not on the list here too. When they have a decent amount they can then fill in their droplets and add them to the pocket of the potion bottle.
If they aren’t too keen on all the writing they can go straight to filling in the droplets with prompting from you, using the self-care list. You know your pupils so do what you think is best.
Suitable for practically all age groups.
Included in the pack:
2 different potion bottles
Pocket label for the bottles
List of self-care ideas
3 different sheets for pupils to record ideas first
8 coloured potion droplets
All available in black and white too
This is their recipe for self-care.
This is a friendship potion activity for young children. It is visually appealing with clear images to help the pupils understand the words.
Make up the cauldron and bin with the pockets. Cut out and laminate the bubble circles. Simply help the pupil sort out those good qualities for a friend and put them into the cauldron to make their friendship potion. All the others go into the bin. Discuss each bubble as you look at it to ensure understanding and relate to the pupil’s experience where possible.
When you have finished the sorting activity ask the pupil to decorate the body shape to look like a friend and put all the bubbles around the body shape to reinforce ‘What makes a good friend’.
Included in the friendship potion activity pack:
Cauldron with pocket
Bin with pocket
18 positive bubbles for friendship
18 negative bubbles for friendship
Body sheet
These emotion apples can be used for an apple tree. Great for the Autumn term.
They all print on A4 paper ready for you to cut out and add to your tree. There are also a variety of coloured leaves to add to your tree and a black and white blank apple for pupils to colour and draw their own emotion if you want to make this an emotional register. They can draw the face on the apple and write the emotion on the leaf. Tree is not included.
Paint a simple tree shape on your display board or use brown paper to cut one out. Better still ask the pupils to help you paint or make it.
Included in the Apple Emotions Pack:
16 Red apples with emotions – happy, sad, angry, scared, surprised, disgusted, worried, confused, shy, calm, tired, bored, proud, frustrated, excited, and upset
A variety of coloured leaves for autumn
Blank apple for drawing an emotion face and writing the emotion
19 sheets in the pack
This teen emotions pack are all hand drawn by me. I get so many people wanting things for older students and the clipart available is very limited. I have drawn 12 different emotions and used colourful teen characters. They are bright and cheerful and will hopefully be appealing to use.
Included in the pack are
12 Teen boy emotion face cards with a suggested emotion word
12 Teen boy emotion face cards without any words
12 Teen girl emotion face cards with a suggested emotion word
12 Teen girl emotion face cards without any words
1 x Teen boy emotion wheel with suggested emotion words
1 x Teen boy emotion wheel without any words
1 x Teen girl emotion wheel with suggested emotion words
1 x Teen girl emotion wheel without any words
12 Teen boy comic strip worksheets
12 Teen girl comic strip worksheets
1 x Teen girl blank for drawing facial expressions/colouring
1 x Teen boy blank for drawing facial expressions/colouring
12 x Teen boy face colouring sheets
12 x Teen girl face colouring sheets
Emotional register girl in colour and black and white
Emotional register boy in colour and black and white
Using the teen emotions pack you can begin to explore the facial expressions and bring in other vocabulary when using the emotion cards without words. For example the ‘angry boy’ could be livid, furious, mad, annoyed, frustrated, raging, irritated or outraged. There are so many wonderful words out there that can really help a pupil’s emotional literacy so do explore them. The more words they know they better they will be able to explain themselves.
Resource from ELSA SUPPORT
Print out the skin tone that you require. This resource has five different skin tones to suit all children. There are also 15 different sets of eyes and mouths and a set of emotions vocabulary flash cards. Laminate all the pieces and keep in a zipped bag for convenience. The aim of this resource is for children to begin to recognise facial expressions and talk about their feelings. It is excellent for children on the autistic spectrum. This resource is also very good for early years settings and can be put into an area of provision, allowing children to experiment and make different faces. Can they match the eyes to the mouth? Can they tell you what the expression is that they have made? Parents would also find this resource helpful for their preschool children.
Questions you could ask – can you make me a ‘angry face’? What would ‘angry’ eyes look like? What would ‘sad’ eyes look like? Can you make me a ‘sad face’? Also use other vocabulary such as ‘miserable, frustrated, terrified, proud’.
There are so many possibilities for working with this resource. The cards could be used as a matching pairs game. Lay out all the cards and ask a child to choose a mouth and eyes that match – name the emotion.
Use the face (laminated) for drawing emotion faces. Put it alongside a mirror so children can make faces themselves.
Use the angry eyes and mouth to discuss anger and how to recognise when they are becoming angry. What makes them angry? What could they do when they are angry?
Pick an emotions flashcard(included with the pack) and make the appropriate face.
This resource can be used in many different ways. Laminate the ‘face sheet’ and then laminate all the expression and vocabulary cards. Cut out the expression and vocabulary cards. Use a blob of bluetac to stick items onto the face. Add a whiteboard pen, a mirror and some playdough to extend the use of this resource.
All images have been drawn by myself.
I have also included different skin colours.
This is a Primary School Memory Book for Year 6 children to work on independently. This year children probably won’t get the chance to do transition work like they normally do so this booklet may help to remember the good times at Primary before moving onto Secondary School.
There are 69 pages in the book which is in colour and in black and white.
So many areas covered. You might want to choose the pages to print off or you might want to print them all out.
Growth mindset posters- This is a set of posters to inspire children to try hard and understand that it is ok to make mistakes. Mistakes help us learn.
These print beautifully on A3 paper so are great to display.
Use each quote as a lesson plan and display one each week in the classroom.
There are 19 different quotes altogether.
These are useful in so many ways:
Use them during circle-time to open up discussion.
Display one each week in your classroom and discuss. Refer to the poster often to reinforce how important it is to try your best.
Create lesson plans around one of the posters.
The Emotions game - is a game to help teach emotional awareness. It will help with emotions vocabulary, recognising facial expressions and give an understanding of how the child may feel in certain situations.
The game could be played on a one to one basis or a group basis. My suggestion is no more than four children.
To make the game
Photocopy or print the game board onto A3 paper then laminate
Print all the cards, laminate and cut into separate cards
The game consists of:
‘How would you feel if’ cards
‘Act it’ cards
A game board
A bingo board
You will also need counters and a die
How to play
Choose the person to go first by each throwing the die and the highest number thrown goes first. Go clockwise from that person.
The first person throws the die and moves their counter that number of spaces.
If they land on an emotion face then they must say what that emotion is. If they land on a ‘How would you feel if’ space then they must pick a card and answer the question. If they land on an ‘Act it’ space then they must pick a card and act out the emotion with facial expression and gestures. You could even encourage them to say a sentence or phrase which someone who feels that emotion might say. If they answer the questions or act out the emotion then they get a counter to fill in their bingo board. The first person to fill their board is the winner so you may need to continue going around the board again. Each person must name two facial expressions, two ‘act it’ cards and two ‘how would you feel if’ cards to win the game.
This is an emotions poster set with 20 bright and colourful posters all set up for A3 Printing. The quality is excellent so you could make them bigger with your ADOBE print settings.
These are useful in so many ways:
Use them during circle-time to open up discussion.
Display one each week in your classroom and discuss. Refer to the poster often to reinforce how important it is to try your best.
Create lesson plans around one of the posters.
A set of 20 self esteem posters aimed at self-esteem. They are all set to print as A3 but of course you could make them print smaller if you want to using ADOBE print settings.
The print quality is excellent so you can really blow them up if you want to using poster settings on Adobe.
Great for discussion during circle-time or just have them up in your room to remind children of how wonderful they are.
The Cool it game - is a game about managing anger. The game will promote discussion on anger management and the recognition of anger. Anger affirmations are used along with cool it cards which give lots of ideas for calming down.
The game could be played on a one to one basis or a group basis. My suggestion is no more than four children.
To make the game
Photocopy or print the game board onto A3 paper then laminate
Print all the cards, laminate and cut into separate cards
Print the ‘my choices board with either the 3 boxes or 6 boxes’ depending on the children you are working with (one for each child)
The game consists of:
40 Affirmation cards
40 Cool it cards
2 types My choices board
A game board
You will also need counters, dry wipe pens and a die to play.
How to play
Choose the person to go first by each throwing the die and the highest number thrown goes first. Go clockwise from that person.
The first person throws the die and moves their counter that number of spaces.
They must answer the question they land on; however, if they land on affirmation then they must read this out to the rest of the group. Ask the child if they agree with the statement. They may or may not. If they land on a ‘cool it ’ they must read it out and explain what it means. If they cannot explain it then ask if anyone else can help? If they think they would like to try this ‘cool it’ they can write it on their ‘My choices board’. The aim is for each child to have either 3 or 6 choices to try when they start to become angry. Continue going round the board until each child has filled their board with ideas.
There isn’t a winner as such with this game as the aim is for the children to learn about their anger
You can photocopy the ‘My choices’ card at the end of the session for the child to take away.
Interact is a game about communication. It is aimed at non-verbal communication skills. The game will teach children about gestures (some by touch), expressions, eye contact and voice (expressions, pitch and volume). It does not cover space and personal space although that could be addressed by the person leading the game.
The game could be played on a one to one basis or a group basis. My suggestion is no more than four children.
The game consists of:
Say it cards
Expressions cards
Eye contact cards
Gesture cards
A game board
Bingo type boards
You will also need counters and a die to play.
How to play
Choose the person to go first by each throwing the die and the highest number thrown goes first. Go clockwise from that person.
The first person throws the die and moves their counter that number of spaces.
They will land on either ‘say it’ ‘gestures’ ‘eye contact’ or ‘expressions’. They must pick that card and do what is on the card. They may need help with the gestures as you may need to model to them what it means but they will soon begin to learn them. When they have done this they get a counter to put on their bingo board.
The first person to fill their bingo board is the winner. If someone has reached the finish star but still hasn’t filled in their bingo board then they must start again.
The feel good game – is a game about self-esteem. The game will promote discussion on positive aspects of the child’s life and will use affirmations and character traits to reinforce self-esteem.
The game could be played on a one to one basis or a group basis. My suggestion is no more than four children.
To make the game
Photocopy or print the game board onto A3 paper then laminate
Print all the cards, laminate and cut into separate cards
Print the ‘I am board’ and laminate, print 4 of each so that you have enough for girls or boys.
The game consists of:
Affirmation cards
Character trait cards
‘I am’ boards
A game board
You will also need counters, dry wipe pens and a die to play.
How to play
Choose the person to go first by each throwing the die and the highest number thrown goes first. Go clockwise from that person.
The first person throws the die and moves their counter that number of spaces.
They must answer the question they land on, however, if they land on affirmation then they must read this out to the rest of the group. Ask the child if they agree with the statement. They may or may not. If they land on a ‘character trait’ they must read it out and explain what it means. If they cannot explain it then ask if anyone else can help? If they think they have this character trait they can write it on their ‘I am board’. The aim is for each child to have 5 character traits on their board at the end of the game. Continue going round the board until each child has their five character traits.
There isn’t a winner as such with this game as the aim is for the children to learn about their positive traits When they have all filled their ‘I am’ board then they are all winners!
You can photocopy each ‘I am board’ before erasing the writing for the next game.