This intervention is written for a group of four children and is led by an ELSA or teaching assistant. It covers emotions, relaxation and lessons around transition either into the next class or new school. It runs for approximately 40 minutes. It is pitched at junior aged children but would work for year 2 to year 3 too.
Children will work together in a group which will give them a sense of belonging. This helps to raise self-esteem.
All my interventions follow a similar structure:
Welcome and emotional register– welcome the children to the group, go over the circle time rules and talk about how they feel today.
Warm up – children really respond better if they have had chance to warm up and feel at ease by playing a game or activity. This may or may not be related to the learning objective.
Activity – this is where the children work on the learning objective.
Relaxation/Mindfulness – Children are more ready to go back to class if they are relaxed and calm.
Review of the session – Children talk about their learning experience and perhaps fill in a pupil feedback form on the session.
The paper resources for this intervention come in booklet form. Make one up to show the children at the start of your intervention but don’t make their booklets up straight away. Some weeks has a challenge for them to take away with them. Make their booklets up for their last session so they can take them away as a reminder. You can collect any evidence you require each week up to that point.
There is a simple assessment for this intervention.
This pack includes
Planning booklet – please read this first
Emotion fans
Circle time rules
Relaxation booklet
Pupil booklet
Assessment
Certificate
Pupil feedback
20 emotions covered in this resource pack.
Simple folds make this unique and exciting for children.
Children will learn to identify the facial expression, what makes them feel that emotion, physical signs of the emotion and synonyms of the emotion.
This is a compliments game where children have to think of many things they can compliment not just appearance. Appearance is included but there are so many things they can compliment as well. This resource will help them to think of all those other things too.
Included in the pack:
A4 gameboard
A3 gameboard
60 Scenarios to help children think about other things they can compliment
Winner’s certificate
Player’s watches
Supporting worksheets (8)
This journal will address many areas of a pupils’ well-being. It is suitable for KS1 and possibly Lower KS2. The journal is a way for pupils to find the positives in their life and to discover mindfulness and relaxation.
Here are some of the areas addressed:
Positivity
Emotions
Self-esteem
Focus
Target setting
Mindfulness
Relaxation
Thinking skills
Strengths
Scaling emotions
Worries
Thoughts and feelings
Emotion tracking
Gratitude/thankfulness
Kindness
Creativity
Reflecting
Planning
Included in the pack:
One weeks worth of journal – each day has 2 pages of things to fill in, which have certain elements change.
Independent journal sheet should pupils want to continue
Worry garage
Positives Jar
2 emotion trackers – Popcorn, and Heart mosaic
End of week assessment
Bullet journal sheet for creating
Weekly review
4 front covers to choose from
Name one thing sheet
How to use the journal with lots of ideas for using in ELSA Sessions with a pupil – would also be useful to teachers, teaching assistants, learning mentors and counsellors.
This is a lovely activity to do with children to discuss separation or divorce. The chances are that the child spends time in both mum’s house and dad’s house. Included in this pack are house templates which can be printed onto A3 or A4 card and made up with the child. This is a lovely, visual and hands on activity where the child can write or draw things and put them in the relevant house.
Included in the pack:
2 House templates with bricks
2 House templates blank
30 question prompts
A variety of templates for writing or drawing.
There are:
40 different Mandalas, one to a page with a lovely quote to discuss. Print these as posters, individual worksheets or as a booklet.
20 Postcards -A5 Size – I thought doing them any smaller would make colouring in a bit too difficult.
Here are a set of 20 Christmas/Winter themed Mindful Mandalas with some lovely quotes to discuss. Pupils can enjoy the mindfulness of colouring along with chat about the quote.
Print as a booklet or just print what you need. You could also blow them up quite large due to the excellent image quality so if you want to do a group colouring you could do.
Wally Worry the worry monster is for helping children to offload their worries.
Included in the pack: *Wally Worry banner, *Wally Worry Monster(with writing, without writing and with a white label for writing with a whiteboard pen), *Wally Worry slips for children to fill in *Pocket template for catching the worries(2 colours).
Although the monster can be used with the pocket another way would be to laminate and cut along the curved line on his tummy. Stick something at the back of him to catch the worries.
Wally Worry is meant for printing on A3 paper but you could make it bigger or smaller depending on your needs. We recommend Adobe Reader for opening our PDFs as this gives you some lovely print options. You can print as a poster and make him pretty huge if you want to and alternatively for one child you could just print him on A4 paper.
The Control your Thunder – ELSA Anger intervention is an ANGER management intervention for KS2 upwards.
Included in the pack is:
Planning booklet
Pupil booklet
Circletime rules
Relaxation cube
Emotion fans
ANGER posters
Supporting resources
Certificate of completion
There are five lessons which are based on a letter from the word ANGER
A is AWARENESS
N is NEGATIVE thoughts
G is GAUGING
E is EXPRESSING
R is RELAXATION
Create a display in a natural design with this Natural resilience display pack. Natural displays are calming for some pupils. Sometimes bright colours can overstimulate a child.
Included in the pack: *80 vocabulary words *Banner *A-Z bunting *writing and drawing paper
Reveal an emotion is a great warm up activity or just a fun introduction to discussion on emotions. It is a PowerPoint game so you do need to have PowerPoint installed on your computer. It is also editable in PowerPoint. This resource will work on IPAD with the PowerPoint app installed, however you will not be able to edit it on IPAD. The animations will not work in Google slides.
Pupils choose a ‘favourites’ question and answer it. Once answered they can click the square to reveal part of the picture. The aim of the game is to label the emotion that is hidden. There is a face, body and word attached to 8 different emotions.
Emotions covered are:
happy
sad
angry
scared
worried
confused
surprised
disgusted
There are 12 ‘favourites’ questions for each emotion which are all fully editable so you can use completely different questions should you wish. That makes a total of 96 questions provided to start you off!
Using as a PRINTABLE GAME
Should you want to print this and use it as a printable game.
Insert a blank slide into your PowerPoint.
Select all the squares from your chosen slide and click CUT.
Paste them into the blank slide.
Save as a PDF and print as normal onto A4 paper or card.
Cut up the squares and place over the image. The child would choose a card, answer it and remove it from the image.
This is ELSA Support’s Twinkle with respect intervention. It is written for children from approximately KS2 to KS3.
The Respect intervention is for a group of 6 children and is led by an ELSA or a teaching assistant. It covers emotions, relaxation, calming down techniques and learning objectives around respect. It runs for approximately 30-40 minutes, weekly for six weeks. There are lots of visuals, circle times and group activities along with lots of expression through drawing and writing.
Pupils will learn about emotions along with relaxation and coping skills each session. This knowledge and these skills will help them to become more emotionally literate. The coming together of a group fosters a sense of belonging and contributes towards higher self-esteem. Every opportunity should be taken to promote belonging and friendship.
This ‘Twinkle with respect intervention’ follows this structure
Welcome and emotional register– welcome the pupils to the group, go over the group rules and talk about how they feel today.
Warm up – This is an unrelated activity to warm the pupils up and break the ice.
Activity – this is where the pupils work on the learning objective.
Relaxation/Mindfulness – Teaches valuable relaxation and mindfulness skills.
Review of the session – pupils talk about their learning experience.
Resources – ready to print and go!
Group rules
Planning for 6 sessions
Certificate on completion
Feelings wheels
5 things you can see visual
I showed respect comic strip
Reach the sky visual
I showed disrespect comic strip
Fill your mind with colour visual
Respect and disrespect cards
Respect and disrespect examples worksheet
Scenario sort
List of characteristics
Passing through visual
Personal characteristic comic strip
Count those breaths visual
Design a poster task
Scenario consequences
Stand like a mountain visual
What I did or said
All the printable resources are included. You will also need a few other things such as colouring pens, pencils, a set of dominoes, and whiteboards and pens.
The lessons cover the following:
Learning objectives
Lesson 1
What is respect?
Lesson 2
What is disrespect?
Lesson 3
I can tell the difference between respect and disrespect
Lesson 4
What is self respect
Lesson 5
What is respect for our environment?
Lesson 6
What is respect for others?
This is ELSA Support’s Twinkle and shine self esteem intervention for young children. It is written for children from approx. 4 to 6 but could be used with 7 year olds too.
The Self-esteem intervention is for a group of 4 children and is led by an ELSA or a teaching assistant. It covers emotions, relaxation, calming down techniques and learning objectives around self-esteem. It runs for approximately 30-40 minutes, weekly for six weeks. There are also tips for areas of provision to continue or reinforce the learning done in the intervention group. There are lots of visuals, circle times and group activities along with lots of expression through drawing.
Children will learn about emotions during each session and will also learn relaxation and calming techniques through the ‘relaxation time’. This knowledge and these skills will help them to become more emotionally literate. The coming together of a group fosters a sense of belonging and contributes towards higher self-esteem. Every opportunity should be taken to promote belonging and friendship.
This Twinkle and shine self esteem intervention follows this structure
Welcome and emotional register– welcome the pupils to the group, go over the circle time rules and talk about how they feel today.
Warm up – This is a song they will sing right through every session to help them Twinkle and shine!
Activity – this is where the pupils work on the learning objective.
Relaxation/Mindfulness – pupils are more ready to go back to class if they are relaxed and calm. This also teaches them valuable coping/relaxation skills.
Areas of provision – these are suggestions to continue learning in class
Review of the session – pupils talk about their learning experience and fill in their star on the building block.
The pack contains the following:
Twinkle and shine planning – six sessions of fully resources planning with suggestions on what to say
Building blocks to self esteem – children will colour one star in at a time until they build their self esteem
Circle time song – Twinkle and shine sung to the tune of ‘Frere Jacque’
Certificate for the end of the sessions
I am special because I am different worksheet
Butterfly visual
My house
Paintpot visual
Family and friends game
Family and friends tree
Turtle shell visual
Things I am good at
Snowman visual
Proud cloud
Superhero pose visual
Grow happy feelings
Floating on a cloud visual
Circle time rules
Feelings wheel
Shout outs
Resources
This pack contains all the printable resources you will need for each lesson. There are other easy to find items needed and each lesson plan has a list of items you will need. These things are simple such as a mirror, and colouring pencils/pens.
This is a growth mindset sorting activity and is suitable for all pupils.
Which statements are indicative of a growth mindset and which ones are a fixed mindset. Help your pupils learn with this colourful and engaging activity.
Included in the pack:
Growth Mindset pocket
Fixed Mindset pocket
Sorting sheet
64 statements – 32 for fixed mindset and 32 for growth mindset
A set of blank cards so pupils can write their own
Character sheets for sorting without the pockets if you are wanting to do a quick activity
All the above in black and white
The pockets without clipart for older pupils
This is our Coping skills toolkit for emotional regulation. Perfect for ELSA Support. There is a handy little pouch and lots of resources that will help pupils with their emotional regulation.
Each pupil could be given one of these. Go through the cards and decide which emojis to put in and which calming cards to put in. Each pupil could have their own bespoke toolkit.
Included in the coping skills toolkit
24 Emoji face cards
33 Coping, calming and mindfulness cards
Worry tree card
Circle of control card
Affirmations card
Anger feeling words and physical sensations card
Sadness feeling words and physical sensations card
Anxiety feeling words and physical sensations card
Scared feeling words and physical sensations words
Self care for wellbeing card
All these resources are in one handy file so you can print what you need.
This is a Feeling angry story pack for helping children who might need a little help with managing their anger.
Included in the Feeling angry story pack:
Front cover with space for a name and an 8 page story
24 Coping cards
The idea of this resource is to use the story and resources to help pupils understand how to deal with anger.
The story covers:
Triggers
Anger volcano
Body signs
Vocabulary around anger
Labelling the feeling
Scaling the feeling
Changing thoughts
Looking at something from a different perspective
Breathing techniques
Consequences of anger
It would be best to do a little at a time of the booklet so you can discuss it in detail and talk about the child’s experiences.
This is a Feeling worried story pack for helping children who might need a little help understanding worries.
Included in the Feeling worried story pack:
Front cover with space for a name and a three page story with images
32 coping strategy cards
The idea of this resource is to use the story and resources to help pupils understand how to deal with worries.
Self-esteem is about how we value and perceive ourselves.
There are 24 sheets in the teen self-esteem pack covering the following areas:
Top strengths – What are the pupil’s top strengths?
A strength you wish for – What do they aspire to? What strength would they like?
Using strengths – How do they use their strengths?
Strength spotter – Do they recognise strengths in others?
Affirmations – read
Affirmations – write
3 good things today – What three good things have happened today? This is a daily practice that will boost wellbeing and self-esteem
Steps to success – read
Steps to success – write
Self love
Make yourself proud – What makes them feel proud?
Helping hand – How do they help others?
Fill your cup
Gratefulness – What are they grateful for?
Jar of positivity
Mood tracker – Track their mood daily
Selfie challenge
Social media feelings
A to Z of things that make me happy
A to Z of words to describe me
Wishes and dreams
Build relationships – What does a perfect friend look like? What qualities do they have?
Being assertive – read
Being assertive – write
This self-esteem leaflet for parents has common sense advice to help them support their children at home. The leaflet is trifold so has six sides to them. They are to be printed duplex and instructions are given within the resource on how to do this using Adobe settings. The resource comes with a PDF to print where you can handwrite your contact details. It also has a file where you can edit the contact details in PowerPoint.
The margins do need to be cut off all the sides so the leaflet folds properly.
This leaflet covers ‘What is self-esteem?’ Strengths, talents and affirmations, advice on being specific with praise, a ‘CAN DO’ can activity, and simple goal setting.