These breathing exercise wheels are great as a prompt for trying different breathing techniques when feeling anxious. Pupils can use their favourite or try different ones.

Here are some positivity cards. There are 36 cards in the download. Print these out and cut them out and they could be used in lots of ways from discussions at circle time to a child picking one out of a jar and discussing.

This self esteem booster wheel will help children to reflect on their Strengths, talents and personal characteristics. There are so many things they are good at. A star stands out and shines brightly in the dark sky so thought I would use this for the centre of the wheel. There are two coloured versions and a black and white version. Pupils of any age can draw or write their strengths, talents or personal characteristics.

This gratitude jar will help children look for the positives in their lives. Gratitude according to Positive psychology is strongly linked to being happy. I have done lots of jar activities but think that gratitude is such an important one so deserves its own post. This resources has a jar with and without lines. It also has a long list of suggestions/prompts to encourage children to reflect on things they are grateful or thankful for. The jar without lines can be decorated with pictures, photographs and words. Make it colourful. It could also be used each day and the child adds just one thing for that day they are grateful or thankful for. Of course you could make an actual jar with a lovely label and ask the child to fill it each day with things they are grateful for.

This resource is a fun way of working with emotions. Each emoji represents a letter of the alphabet and pupils need to break the code and work out what all the words are. The words in this pack are all emotion/feeling words. Their are 16 base emotions/feelings with synonyms of that emotion or feelings. This is perfect for year 6s who are returning to school in June. Also great for KS2 children who are still at home. The puzzles are enjoyable to do. Pupils will feel a sense of achievement breaking the codes which will help raise self esteem. Getting involved with puzzles is great for relaxation and mindfulness. You can work on synonyms of emotions by using these puzzles. Pupils will learn new vocabulary for expressing their feelings. Brilliant for home learning. The pack contains: 16 code breaker sheets The alphabetic code A sheet for making their own code A sheet for making their own messages Answer sheets

This is a huge pack of resources to help children’s wellbeing. You can glue the pocket into an exercise book and then add things to the pocket that you think the child will find helpful. An alternative would be to put all the resources in a folder for the child. Brilliant kit for home learning and helping your child’s wellbeing Included in this pack: Pocket colour Pocket black and white Emotional register List of feeling words Star breathing Thermometer for scaling Jar activity Bucket of happiness Proud cloud Relax tips Relax top four Starfish story I made a difference sheet Star of strengths List of positive characteristics Sleep tips Grounding activity Simple emotional register Worry tree Helping hand 5 a day for wellbeing My favourites Grateful flower Physical feelings Helpful thoughts My family I wish

The four basic emotions are covered – happy, sad, angry and scared You will find that most other emotions have a base here. For example worried can come under scared, excited can come under happy, upset can come under sad and furious can come under angry. Learning these 4 first can help develop other emotions in time. Print out a copy for each day. Ask your child how they are feeling today? Ask them to colour the relevant picture, chances are it will be ‘happy’ most of the time initially and this is fine. You are helping them get into the habit of talking about feelings. Ask them to draw their face showing that emotion, use a mirror to help them see their face and have fun making different expressions. Then ask them to talk about it and draw a picture if they want to. If they don’t then just jot down what they have said. You want them to articulate their feelings and talking about it is a great way to do that! In time you will find your child becoming more open and talking more about their feelings. Please make sure you model this too e.g. ‘I feel sad today because it’s raining outside’. ‘I feel happy today because I talked to my friend’. Also make sure you verbalise their emotions too and give a reason. ‘I see you are feeling sad today because…’ ‘I see you are feeling angry today because…’ and so on. Great for home learning

The child can have fun with this by colouring a section of the rainbow each day. I wonder what it will look like when finished. Which mood will be the most popular mood? Great for home learning

This is a 5 day challenge on being kind to yourself. This is suitable for anyone to do whether you are 5 years old or 15 years old.

This is a completely free resource that can be used to get to know children who will be starting school in September. Of course that all depends on the current situation. It is a booklet that was asked for from a Learning mentor who needed something to send home to parents to find out as much as possible about their child. With the current situation home visits won’t be possible. That may change in the next few months but at least you have something you can use. Obviously the parent and child would do this together. There are simple assessments such as colouring in, drawing themselves, drawing an emotion face, writing letters and numbers. Use as many or as few of the sheets as you want to. Parents if you are reading this then make sure there is no pressure on your child to write, draw etc but let them have a go or scribe what they say.

George doesn’t want to go to school is a separation anxiety resource to help children transition back to school after the this Pandemic is under control. Included in this pack: PowerPoint slide show of the Story (36 slides) PDF of the story – this can be printed or you could transfer to IPAD to read on that. 12 supporting worksheets 4 pages of questions on the story An anxiety scale for assessing the child’s levels of anxiety pre and post assessment

These are just image files with a transparent background so you can basically use just like you would an image. The beauty of these is the transparent background so you can overlay them over basically anything. There are 11 image files in the pack. You can insert them into anything where you can insert a photo or graphic. You could add to some work you are marking for a child You could add as an attachment to a child you are emailing You could add to a photograph, there are lots of apps out there that you can do this with but will show you a simple way with PowerPoint. I think most people have that! You could add it to a little note you are sending to a child in word You could even make a sheet of real stickers if you want to by pasting into a word document and then printing on ‘sticker paper’. You can resize them from small to HUGE. The image quality is 300dpi so perfect for enlarging too.

The ‘What if’ monsters is a resource to help worriers. It takes children through strategies for dealing with worries. The children can use the worksheets at appropriate times during the PowerPoint or they can choose to draw their own. Included in the pack is: A PowerPoint show (31 slides) A PDF for printing of the show (31 pages) 9 worksheets 1 poster You have permission to use this PowerPoint show on Google Classroom or similar platforms. You have permission to share this file with individual parents from your school. You may NOT share this resource publicly on a website, Facebook or google drive.

Written last night to hopefully help children who struggle with change. This is a BIG change. Clear, simple and hopefully reassuring.

This FRIENDS display pack compliments our FRIENDS cards but can also be used without the cards. Included in the pack: *40 FRIENDS posters *2 banners in blue and yellow *Vertical border paper in blue and yellow *Horizontal border paper in blue and yellow *6 labels *Worksheets for pupils The pack is aimed at EYFS/KS1 and possibly lower KS2 The idea of the friends display is that you choose either one or two different skills to learn that week or that session. Children can write or draw when they showed that skill, they can learn new vocabulary around that skill and you can take photographs of them catching them using that skill. This will be a changing display with new posters and children’s work changing as necessary.

This is a friendship display to support any social skills work you may be doing. It focuses on vocabulary around friendship. Pupils will learn about the positive qualities of a friend. The display is bright and colourful and will enhance your ELSA area or classroom. Included in the pack are: *32 Friendship quality display words *A frog poster *A banner that can be printed large using Adobe print settings and then pieced together *some bubbles to cut out to decorate your display * A cauldron which can be printed on A3 or larger *writing paper for the pupils with and without lines, with and without the frog clipart.

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

This truth or lie game has 64 cards which are for sorting between something that is true and something that is a lie or that is false. There is a game board to make it more exciting and also for working with a group of children. There are a few supporting worksheets. Please check out the images for more information. Children tell lies for lots of reasons. Before working on those it is important that children know the difference between a lie and the truth.

This ‘Glorious Goals’ workbook will help pupils to set goals. There are 20 pages in the booklet and there are two different front covers so you can use with younger and older pupils. There is a certificate on completion and also a bookmark to take away as a reminder of the steps needed to be taken to set a goal. This is perfect for New Year goal setting but hopefully it will help instil a habit of setting goals throughout the year.

There are 40 brightly coloured cards showing ways to be a good friend. Perfect for KS1 and Lower KS2. Use these as discussion or teaching points on how to be a good friend.