Cardiau Tawelu Welsh Calm Down Cards Y1-6
Bilingual Welsh and English calm down strategy cards for Years 1 to 6: 24 self-regulation strategies, a pupil planner, a Calm Corner poster and teacher notes, mapped to the Health and Well-being Area of Learning and Experience of the Curriculum for Wales. Welsh text leads throughout, with English beneath.
This pack pairs with the Cylch Emosiynau emotions wheel packs. The wheel helps a child name the feeling. These cards help them decide what to do next.
What is included (8 pages, A4, prints in black and white)
24 strategy cards, eight per page, ready to cut and laminate, in six families: Anadlu (breathing), Symud (movement), Synhwyrau (senses), Meddwl (thinking), Siarad (talking) and Tawelu (quiet). Each card has a simple family icon so non-readers can find their card, a child-facing instruction in Welsh, and the English beneath
Fy Nghynllun Tawelu: a pupil planner where the child chooses three cards for each of three feelings, names their trusted people, and records the first body sign that a big feeling is coming
Y Gornel Dawel: a six-step Calm Corner poster to display
Two pages of teacher notes in Welsh: introducing the cards when everyone is calm rather than mid-crisis, setting up a calm corner, differentiation from Year 1 to Year 6, curriculum links across Progression Steps 1 to 3, what to watch for, and a safeguarding note
Curriculum for Wales
Health and Well-being. Statement of what matters: “How we process and respond to our experiences affects our mental health and emotional well-being.” The self-regulation strand is quoted in the teacher notes across Progression Steps 1, 2 and 3, including “I can self-regulate my emotions in a healthy way using strategies that I have developed” and “I can ask for help when I need it from people I trust.”
Also useful to know
The six family icons are simple line drawings, so the cards print cleanly in black and white and work for Year 1 non-readers. Suitable for Welsh-medium, bilingual and Welsh as a second language settings, and for ALN and nurture provision.
The matching Cylch Emosiynau emotions wheel packs for Years 1 to 4 and Years 5 to 6 are available separately.


