LEHSS - Supporting Students with Exam Stress

From this workshop you will earn helpful ways to respond and support young people with stress around exams. Access practical resources to aid in your role in schools and colleges.

What is this training about?

This online training course will help you understand why some students find that exams cause high levels of stress, and how we can understand what is happening in their brains and bodies at this time. We will introduce you to a new way of looking at exam stress based on compassion, and how you can use this knowledge to better support your students at this time.

What will you learn and gain from this training:

·An introduction to a way of understanding stress and anxiety based on compassion, and how our brains work.

·Understanding exam related stress and how to support students to manage this better. ·Practical strategies and resources that are effective and useable as a school professional.

What people have said about this training:

“It was great to get different tools and examples to use - the students are all different so need different methods.” “Very detailed knowledge and strategies to pass on to students and to other staff.”

PLEASE NOTE: this training session is only available to staff employed by schools and colleges within the Lancashire County Council area. Places cannot be allocated to people employed by other services or who work in schools outside this area.

This training is fully funded by LCC and there is no charge to staff directly employed by a school or college within the LCC area.

Please use your school or college email on registration to demonstrate your eligibility.

Presentation slides and resources will be shared with all attendees after each session. We aim to foster a safe, confidential space in our training sessions where attendees are comfortable to contribute and share experiences if they wish. We do not allow the use of AI note-taking tools within our training sessions, and if AI tools join a meeting they will be removed and excluded from the session.

Our use of your data

By signing up to this session you are agreeing for your work contact details to be added to our mailing list. We will use your contact details only to share details of future training and other events hosted by LEHSS. We will also add your attendance at this session to the training log on your setting’s Compassionate Schools Hub account (if they have one). More information on how we use and protect your data can be found at https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/lehsc/privacy-notice/ and https://cs-hub.co.uk/privacy/