Resource of the Month – November 2025
~ The Drama Lama by Rachel Morrisroe ~
Alex’s worries continue to grow, and he starts to think he’ll never get rid of his llama. But then, he eventually shares his worry with the school’s caring librarian Ms Myrtle and Alex’s llama begins to shrink. Now whenever his feelings leave him in a muddle and his drama llama appears, Alex knows just what to do to control it.
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Resource of the Month – October 2025
~ Feeling Bean bags ~
These bean bags are great in helping children to identify and express their feelings and emotions with this set of 10 tactile bean bags. Each beanbag features a printed emotion image, including happy, sad, angry, surprised, loved, scared, peaceful, excited, sleepy, and disappointed, in a colour and texture that corresponds uniquely to that emotion.
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Resource of the Month – September 2025
~ Sometimes A Day Full of Feelings by Stephanie Stansbie and Elisa Paganelli~
Our body is full of feelings, we experience high and lows. Sometimes our feelings can lift us high and sometimes they can bring us low. But it is important that children know that all feelings are ok. Sometimes a day full of feelings is a great way to explore these emotions with the children
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Resource of the Month – July 2025
~ Feelings and Emotion Puzzle Cards~
This month we want to share with you the feelings and emotions puzzle cards that we use with some of our children. These cards are great as they encourage the children to match the facial expression to the correct emoji.
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Resource of the Month – June 2025
~ The Zones of Regulation~
This month our resource of the month is a tool for teaching the children regulation strategies to help them to focus, calm, think, move, breathe and to connect. These cards are to be used in conjunction with ‘The Zones of Regulation’ (Kuypers 2011), where Zone tools are introduced and explored.
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Resource of the Month – May 2025
~ Feelings Activity ~
Our May resource of the month is a feelings activity set that we use with the children we work with. It helps them to explore and learn the names of some of the emotions that they experience. We use this with all ages of children, and they just love it.
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Resource of the Month – April 2025
~ A Handful of Buttons by Carmen Parets Luque ~
Whatever your family looks like every family is united by an invisible thread which connects their family together. This story clearly illustrates that not all families are the same and this story we often use with the children we work with to demonstrate that all families are different and special in their own way.
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Resource of the Month – March 2025
~ Visual Timetables ~
Visual timetables in a classroom are so important for so many children and many children will rely on these even if you think they don’t. Alongside this, some children like a ‘now and next’ board as the whole day can be overwhelming for them, there are lots of different boards that you can use, we like to make them bespoke for each child as every child is different.
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Resource of the Month – February 2025
~ Social Skill Games ~
Within our sessions we use games to help teach children social skills; we directly teach social interaction and inter-personal skills within small groups. Children learn through play, and we encourage the families that we work with to play simple games with their children to teach them how to take turns, win and lose appropriately.
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Resource of the Month – January 2025
~ The Huge Bag of Worries by Virginia Ironsid ~
There is so much you can do with this book to start to talk about worries with children. We all have worries; some are small and some really do weigh us down. We often use this story as a way of starting work with children on dealing with their worries and we then work with the child on finding a way of helping them to deal with their worries.
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Resource of the Month – December 2024
~ Visual Timers ~
Visual timers are an effective way to support some children with tasks inside and outside of the classroom. Using a timer to support a child in completing a task or to challenge them can be a great strategy to implement; they can also be helpful in managing transitions and reducing anxiety.
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Resource of the Month – November 2024
~ You ~
Every child needs an adult that they can trust, an adult who will be there for them and help them to navigate their way through life. Building a positive and meaningful relationship in school with children is the most powerful and effective resource that there is.
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Resource of the Month -October 2024
~ Visual Timetables ~
A lot of the children that we work with need to know what is coming next, how long activities are going to last for and the sequence of events for the day. A visual timetable is helpful in developing key routines at both home and school.
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Resource of the Month – September 2024
~ Daisy’s Dragon by Frances Stickley and Annabel Tempest ~
Using the story is a great way of exploring happy, calm, angry, scared, sad and brave, we then use play-doh and puppets and do more work around each of these emotions.
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Resource of the Month – June 2024
~ Role play ~
Role play using puppets is a great way to work out emotions with children. We use them in so many different ways some of which include talking though scenarios with the children or practising what to do in a time of conflict.
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Resource of the Month – May 2024
~ The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow ~
The story ‘The Final Year’ is told in verse and is a powerful story about finding your voice and your place and your people. It is a great book that we love to to use as it supports the children in year 5 and year 6 who are facing the imminent move to high school
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Resource of the Month – April 2024
~ A Handful of Buttons by Carmen Parets Luqu ~
This story clearly illustrates that not all families are the same and this story we often use with the children we work with to demonstrate that all families are different and special in their own way.
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Resource of the Month – March 2024
~ All Dogs Have ADHD by Kathy Hoopman ~
This book takes an inspiring and affectionate look at Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). With images from the canine world, it explores a variety of traits that will be instantly recognisable to the children with ADHD.
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Resource of the Month – February 2024
~ Strength Cards ~
Everyone has strengths: wherever we go, whatever we do, in times of struggle and in times of ease, our strengths can lead the way! We love to be creative with how we use strength cards, and we aim to make it a fun and powerful session.
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Resource of the Month – January 2024
~ Invisible String by Patrice Karst ~
The Invisible String story offers comfort to many of the children that we work with as it eases their separation anxiety, loneliness and loss, whilst also exploring the intangible yet unbreakable connections between us all. If you have a child who is nervous about school, anxious to leave you or has suffered a bereavement, this resource can be a great way to support them!
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Resource of the Month – December
~ Puppets ~
Play is an important part of emotional development for children. One way to encourage children to express their emotions in a creative and positive way is through the use of puppets. Children can explore powerful emotions and learn effective self-regulation skills through the characters they create.
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Resource of the Month – November
~ Breathing Exercises ~
Breathing exercises are a great way to calm the mind and body. There are lots of ways to feel calmer. It is about finding what works for the individual child. Developing breathing exercises with children takes time, we use role play and adult modelling of different exercises so that the use of the exercises becomes natural. Remember you need to repeat an exercise lots of times until you feel it actually working.
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Resource of the Month – October
~ Fergal is Fuming by Robert Starling ~
Fergal is a nice chap, but when someone tells him what to do, he gets very…very… angry. Fergal just cannot seem to control his angry outbursts and soon everyone is ignoring him. Luckily, his mum is there to offer advice and support, to help Fergal control his emotions and win back his friends.
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Resource of the Month – September
~ Millie Fierce by Jane Manning ~
Millie is quiet. Millie is sweet. Millie is mild. But none of the children at Millie’s school listen to her and she never gets a piece of birthday cake with a flower on it. One day the girls in Millie’s class walk over Millie’s chalk drawing on the pavement and smudge it, they don’t even say sorry!
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Resource of the Month – June
~ Pocket Hearts ~
Sometimes the special people in our lives need to know we are always there for them; our pocket hugs are the perfect way to show the children we work with just how much we care and think about them. We use pocket hugs within our work in a variety of ways. They are a reminder that we are thinking about the child even though we are not with them all the time; for the children, this can offer comfort at a time of anxiety or worry.
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Resource of the Month – May
~ My Mouth is a Volcano ~
‘My Mouth is A Volcano’ is a lovely book that teaches children how to manage their thoughts and words without interrupting – something that many children (and adults) find challenging at times. Through reading the book it prompts discussions and questions about managing your thoughts and words whilst teaching the children the value of respecting others by listening and waiting for their turn to speak.
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Resource of the Month – April
~ Socially Speaking ~
This brilliant board game teaches and reinforces social skills in a fun way. The game focuses on social interaction in three key areas: home, school, and the wider community. Children learn how to communicate effectively in a range of social situations whilst practising appropriate social responses.
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Resource of the Month – March
~ The Red Beast ~
by Kay Al-Ghani
When we do anger management work with the children, many of them think that it is ‘wrong’ or ‘not ok’ to feel angry. For many children, anger can be a default emotion they go to when they are not feeling ‘quite right’. It is hard for children to recognise anger within themselves, and we try to help them to recognise and understand what anger ‘feels’ like.
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Resource of the Month – February
~ The Muddle Monster ~
by Leonie Marie
Parents often ask what they can do to help their children at home and these monsters are a great way for parents to really help their children with their worries. Children may find it difficult to express their emotions verbally or may not want to talk to their mum/dad/carer but, the monster acts as a go-between and opens up the dialogue for the child.
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Resource of the Month – January
~The Colour Monster ~
by Anna Llenas
In 2015 my sister bought this book for my nephew, and we have used it in our work ever since to help support younger children understand their emotions. The Colour Monster’s feelings are all muddled up and his friend helps him to untangle them.
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