All Join In

This unique video, made with a diverse group of 3-7 year olds, helps children develop skills for communicating and making friends and for understanding their own and others feelings.

All Join In looks at new experiences and new relationships through a child's eyes, aiming to encourage:

• Inclusion - children are encouraged to wonder about other children and about differences in a positive way.
• Communication - children are introduced to strategies for making sense of one anothers behaviour. These strategies include sign language around feelings and getting along.
• Emotional literacy - children are shown skills for observing and understanding each others feelings.

The video is almost adult free, interactive, lively and fun.

All Join In has been heavily influenced by young children from start to finish. The 14 children who appear in the video were involved in planning, filming and editing. More than 200 other children have watched and given feedback at home and in nurseries and schools at different stages in the project.

All Join In is designed to be watched in five stand-alone sections of around 10 minutes. The storyline follows a group of young children who come together for the first time and learn to get along.