For a COGmas School Award your school leads will be able to co-ordinate and apply for this if every class has achieved a Classroom Award, OR if all classes are collaborating on a whole school project involving an equivalent amount of work to around 8 activities of EW activities per class.

• Classroom Award Application

• School Award Application

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We particularly enjoyed making a Cogmas song and making paper chains.

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Participating in Cogmas this year was a fantastic confidence building experience for both staff and pupils to demonstrate their growing understanding of the Emotion Works cog model. Allowing class teachers to complete activities that suited their age and stage has allowed us to take steps in gathering evidence for our Silver Award application and created a nice buzz around school in the lead up to the holidays. Thank you for the opportunity to participate in Cogmas this year - we will be joining in again next year.

This advent we decided to work on the Emotion Works Cogs through a Christmas Picture Book approach with the whole school.

We selected 15 Christmas Picture Books for the days of advent we would be in school. Classes were paired up (younger and older pupils) to work on the challenges set by our friendly elves. Each day the groups went to our Christmas tree to collect a wrapped up book and a red envelope with a task. They take it back to their group and read/watch the story and then look at the challenge. They then work together to answer the questions. There is always a cog to complete which has been linked to the story. We made sure all the cogs were covered throughout advent. We also tied this in with Children's Rights (as we are a gold school) and our school values.

Once the challenge has been completed each group posted it in the Elf Delivery Cogmas Box, then they were added to our display.

This has been a great way to work on the cogs altogether and reinforce all the learning we do about the cogs throughout the year!

Most importantly the children have really enjoyed it and have loved working with other children to talk about their learning.

The wonderful 'Cogmas' doors created engaging Cogmas learning across the school, showcasing Southesk's understanding and journey of Emotion Works so far whilst we are working towards our Gold Award. It showcases Christmas collaboration and creativity and is wonderful for all to visit each others door and explore learning that has taken place in other classes. The staff and pupils thoroughly enjoyed this task using Emotion Works. It allowed everyone to revisit areas in preparation for our Whole School Emotion Works IDL in term 3 - a focus for going for Gold!

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We also used the cogs to analyse the Cadbury 2013 advert 'Unwrap Joy' thinking about how they would feel if they woke up to their street covered in wrapping paper, they then wrote a newspaper article about the event.

Finally, we created Winter Regulation Toolkits to help others find balance and calm throughout the winter months.

This work was all linked together using our Classroom COGvent Calendar!