Emotion Explorer:
Drama and Wellbeing Workshop
✓ Reception - Year 6
✓ Led by a professional actor-facilitator
✓ PSHE, RSE, Children's Mental Health Awareness Week
✓ Delivered in your school hall
A drama workshop that nurtures emotional wellbeing through stories and play.
It’s normal to worry, and it’s OK to feel sad sometimes - it’s what you do next that counts!
Perfect for Children’s Mental Health Week (3 - 9 February 2025), our Emotion Explorer workshops empower children to feel confident in recognising, sharing and expressing their feelings. The active, energising workshops support a whole-school approach to emotional wellbeing; with a focus on building empathy and emotional resilience through play.
The class-by-class sessions are based around your choice from Daisy’s Dragons by Frances Stickley and Annabel Tempest (EYFS, KS1), Ruby’s Worry by Tom Percival (KS1, LKS2), or The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse by Charlie Mackesy (KS2).
During the workshop, a trained actor-facilitator sensitively guides the children through a series of drama exercises that are linked to your chosen book. Just like the characters, children learn to describe and place their feelings in the body, connect with others, and discover practical ways of managing trickier emotions.
Created by:
Abigail Rosser
Find out more about our creatives.
For EYFS, KS1
Daisy's Dragons
By Frances Stickley and Annabel Tempest
An engaging, gentle picture book that illustrates the value of all feelings.
For KS1, LKS2
Ruby's Worry
By Tom Percival
A sensitve and reassuring book about a little girl who discovers that sharing her worries can help make her feel a bit better.
For KS2
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse
By Charlie Mackesy
A much-loved picture book which follows four new friends as they explore the world around them, reflecting on self-acceptance, courage, friendship and love.
- We work with children in their usual classes.
- Sessions are 35 to 40 minutes for Reception, 35 to 60 minutes for KS1 and 40 to 90 minutes for KS2.
- We can work with up to six classes per day.
- To work with fewer classes we can visit for just an afternoon or morning session.
- To work with more than six classes we can visit across multiple days.
- We will send you a suggested timetable when you enquire and we can work with you to create a timetable that works for your school day.
- Think critically about the themes of the story by experiencing it first-hand.
- Increase feelings of empathy, connection and compassion by working together as a class.
- Have an understanding of different emotions, and how they can be handled.
- Develop creativity, physical expression and communication skils which can have a positive effect on mental health.
- Develop creative ownership and the imagination by working alongside a professional actor.
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