We have used the emotion works cogs to explore the emotions we experience during Christmas. 
The Orange Cog
✨As part of Our Children Their Nurturing Education journey Mrs Morris works with the boys and girls at a whole school assembly and introduces them to the emotion works cogs. The first cog they learnt about was the orange cog- emotion words. The boys and girls come back to class to do a follow up activity on emotion words! We could remember lots of emotion words and with some help from the teacher put them in a word art emoji. 🐾 Now we are going to learn about what body sensations we feel when we experience different emotions.
Emotion Works
It is important to us that all children feel nurtured in Bowmore Primary School, we use Emotion Works to support children in recognising, coping and talking about their emotions. Emotion works is introduced in primary 1 and is used throughout the school to help us create a safe and caring environment for all of our children.
Emotion Works explored different aspects of our emotions through a system of cogs, the children are introduced to each cog and these are used together to support the children in developing a deeper understanding of different emotions and expressing these.
The Cogs:
Triggers: What triggers certain emotions?
Body Sensations: Where do we feel these emotions in our body?
Emotion Words: What words can we use to label our emotions?
Body Bevhvaiours: What behaviours do these emotions trigger in us?
Regulation Strategies: what can we do to help us feel better when emotions don’t feel good?
Intensity: How can we report the size and strength of our emotions?
Influencing Factors: The things that influence how we react to emotional triggers
