M6 Theatre Company in collaboration with Shawclough Community School in Rochdale explored the impact of working with child-sized puppets on children?s emotional intelligence. A group of 14 children in a reception class took part in activities in the first part of last summer term.

Inspired by the Reggio Emilia approach to early-years education and by the work of the Belgian educationalist Ferre Laevers, the class teacher was eager to investigate the link between children?s emotional... more