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Plan an Emotional Literacy Session.Let’s plan it, step by step.
Five steps, from the concern to a session sheet. In the demo you can plan a whole session and preview the sheet.
Who is it for, and what is the concern?
Who is this session for?
How many in the group?
Some activities have a group limit. LEGO® Therapy, for example, works with up to three.
This sounds like
Safeguarding comes first. If a child or young person has told you, or shown you, that they are unsafe, being harmed, or having thoughts of self-harm or suicide, follow your setting’s safeguarding procedures and speak to your Designated Safeguarding Lead today.
This is not something to set an emotional literacy target for. Emotional literacy work can continue alongside, once the right people know.
Nothing matched those words yet. Try describing it a different way, or start with one of these.
Concern
Choose what to work on
Appears once you have picked a concern.
Choose what to work on
Choose up to 8 sessions.
How often are the sessions?
Set the number of sessions and how often, then press Select. This sets the review date on the sheet.
Sessions planned:
First, choose where the child or young person is now
Select targets
Choose 1 or 2. One main target for the key skill you want to develop, and one supporting target only if it clearly helps the main one.
Most likely starting points
May also help
Earliest skills come first. Choose the ones that fit where the child or young person is now.
The time frame and goals appear once you choose where the child or young person is now.
Select targets
Choose the goals that best fit the child or young person. We’ll turn these into SMART targets on the session sheet.
Choose 1 or 2. One main target for the key skill you want to develop, and one supporting target only if it clearly helps the main one.
Two chosen: a main target and a supporting target. Untick one to swap it.
Goals
Regulation Activities
Appears once you have chosen your goals and pressed Done.
Regulation Activities
We recommend every session starts with a regulating somatic, body-based exercise. These videos are for you, not the child or young person. Watch one and try it yourself first. Then model one or more of these in the session.
More regulation activities
Regulation Activities
Studio tools, lesson plans and more
Appears once you have added your regulation activities to the plan.
Studio tools, lesson plans and more
What would you like to use?
Interactive Games
Session packs and printables
Ready-made packs to download or open, with session plans and printables.
Design your own printable
You design these. Each one opens an online maker where you choose the words and pictures, ideally with the child or young person, then download your own PDF to print. Allow a few minutes to make it.
Lesson slides
Ready-made slides to present in a session or classroom.
Learn to run an intervention
Training for a longer piece of work that supports these targets.
Selected
Tools and resources
Download the session sheet
Appears once you have added your choices in step 4 to the plan.
Download the session sheet
Your targets
Add the initials and date, then check the preview. Downloading the sheet comes with membership.
One sheet for each child or young person.
Initials only, never a full name.
The first session. The tracker dates follow from it.
Pages to include
Every box can be typed into after you download.
Nothing you type here is saved or sent anywhere. It only goes into the sheet you download, and it is cleared when you leave or press Start again.
Preview: this is how the PDF will look
Making the preview…
Session sheet
Extra: help outside sessions
Make your own printables
Online makers for cards, boards and plans the child or young person can use in class or at home, between sessions.