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Childline reported an over 60% increase in the number of calls they received from children suffering exam anxiety during the run up to the 2021/22 exam season. With senior leaders in schools reporting similar concerns, it is crucial that you are preparing to support children for the 2022/23 exam season who might be suffering with anxiety.
Join us for this half day masterclass, led by Sam Garner to learn more about the reasons for increased rates of exam anxiety, how you can identify it and the impact it can have on children. You’ll look at practical strategies and tools that you can use to support students, and how to best implement these at a whole school level when working with individuals and groups.
You will consider proactive preventative steps you can take to minimise exams anxiety, including making changes to language and the school environment. During this masterclass, there will be plenty of time for group discussion, as well as questions.
Who Should Attend
Pastoral Leaders, Senior Mental Health Leads, School Counsellors, Exam Officers, SENCOs, Safeguarding Leads and members of the Senior Leadership Team.
Key Learning Objectives
This Masterclass will enable you to:
- Ensure you know what exam anxiety is, how it can be identified and the impact it can have
- Explore the reasons why this type of anxiety has increased
- Identify effective strategies and techniques for managing exams anxiety and how to apply these when working with children
- Understand what steps you can take to ensure you are taking a whole school approach to managing exams anxiety
- Work with parents to understand individual children’s needs and support them
- Prepare children for exam day in a way that minimises their anxiety as far as possible
- Understand the impact that environment can have on children
- Consider access arrangements that might be applicable
Facilitator
Sam is a renowned speaker, trainer and author specialising in mental health and SEN. She has been a SENCo in a large secondary school and is a qualified Cognitive Behaviour Therapist and a Child and Adolescent Counsellor. Sam also set up a company providing mental health CBT programmes for schools. She is in high demand to speak at conferences and events and provides in-house training for schools and companies, nationally and internationally. Lauded for her humour and ‘telling it like it is’ approach to mental health, Samhas had her book MentalHealth in Education published by Routledge, and regularly writes for several publications with more books in the pipeline for publication.
