Supporting social and emotional wellbeing
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The Emotion Colour Wheel can help visually group feeling using a circle divided into colours to show basic emotions. Brighter, bolder colours are associated with more intense emotions. There are tips for using the wheel, activities and worksheets.
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Positive thinking as a powerful tool to improve health, help manage stress, overcome challenges and make better choices. A set of 101 positive thoughts and affirmations from pathway2success that you can use to discuss with children and help them select their top 10.
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Free apps on this website for stimulation, relaxation, fun, digital art and speech therapy. Many of the apps are cause and effect style apps, using digital techniques developed over time. A particularly good section on sensory apps.
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To support schools to provide the nurturing environment that pupils need, The Early Intervention Foundation have created a set of resources focusing on the vital role that effective, evidence-based social & emotional learning (SEL) can play. All the resources are based on previous work on SEL in schools, particularly the guidance report, Improving social and emotional learning in primary schools, produced by EIF and the Education Endowment Foundation.
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The East Midlands Educational Psychology Service have produces a number of resources including this therapeutic story to help children explore different feelings about returning to school after the coronavirus lockdown. There is PPT version of the story as well as activities to use after reading the story. Visit the website to find all the resources available.
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A fact sheet from Child Trends written by Jessica Dym Bartlett and Rebecca Vivrette on ways to promote children’s resilience during the pandemic. Includes information on emotional support and sensitive caregiving that could be shared with parents.