Our Schools Are in Crisis: Meet the Anxious Generation
The generation going through school today is facing challenges unlike any we've seen before.
The long term effect of Covid and the extended isolation the pandemic brought, has left our students struggling to concentrate, to be sociable and to manage their emotions.
We call them The Anxious Generation.
For your school, this isn't just a growing concern - it's an urgent crisis with far-reaching effects:
- Disruptive behaviour that brings challenges to your classrooms and stretches teachers thin.
- Overworked pastoral staff doing their best to contain anxiety-led problems.
- Lowered test scores that affect your rankings, your reputation, and potential new enrolment figures.
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If you're feeling the weight of these challenges, you're not alone.
Your teachers are juggling discipline when they should be delivering lessons.
Your administrative team is overwhelmed by all the extra work this brings in increased Access Arrangements and 1:1 invigilation requests.
And despite your best efforts, the results you want - for your students, staff, and school - still feel out of reach.
You've Tried Everything ... But It's Still Not Enough
Chances are, you've already put solutions in place:
- Extra exam arrangements like extended time and private rooms.
- One-on-one support requiring assessments, testing, and detailed administration.
- Increased staffing to meet the growing needs of anxious students.
But these "fixes" only seem to add more pressure to your budget, timetables, and staff workloads.
And still, your students struggle.
- Bright, capable learners freeze during exams.
- Disruptive behaviours continue to affect others.
- And the underlying anxiety remains, holding everyone back.
It’s not your fault. It’s not their fault. The problem isn’t in your effort - it’s how you’re approaching it.
Imagine What’s Possible
What if your students could show up calm, confident, and ready to do their best - not just in exams, but in every area of school life?
Imagine classrooms where:
- Anxiety-based behaviours are replaced with focus and participation.
- Test scores reflect your students’ true potential.
- Teachers and staff feel empowered, rather than overwhelmed.
What if you could transform your school into a thriving environment where every student is prepared and ready to show their best selves, and your rankings reflect that new behaviour?
The truth is, anxiety isn’t just a surface issue.
It’s rooted deep in how students think and feel about themselves.
- Unresolved stress and fear are the leading causes of disruptive behaviour.
- Self-perception and Identity shapes behaviour and affects how students perform.
Trying to address the symptoms -disruptive behaviour or poor test performance -without addressing the root cause is like using weed killer on your garden.
It might seem effective at first, but the weeds always come back stronger, stealing the energy and sunshine from your best plants.
The real solution? Prepare the soil.
When you nurture the right environment, your students can thrive. And that's where I can help you.
Introducing Creating A Student Exam Reaction Plan
It's your step-by-step plan to help your students think better about themselves, show them how to handle the feelings that come up, and how to feel differently about who they are, what they can do and who they can be.
There's everything you need for you the Teachers, and for your Student Lessons, carefully put togther to make it easy for you to get going. You get 2 separate packages
Teacher Package
In the Teacher Package I give you ready to share Teacher Training sessions for your staff.
It's all the WHAT and HOW TO they'll need to get them up and running as quickly as possible..
Student Package
In your Student Package you'll get done-for-you PowerPoint Lessons to help your students understanding how their thinking works, what triggers their reactions and sets them off and how to calm things down and feel more in control.
It includes a number of Mindful practices like Visualisation, Meditation and Tapping too, to give them lots of ways to ease their anxious thoughts and get things back on track again.
Not only do you get everything that I mention here but I give you Fillable Teacher and Student Workbooks to refer to that you can use over and over and over again throughout the year.
and mp3s to use in class, in small group work, 1:1 or for individual practice. This gives you options in when and how to use the contents of Creating a Personal Exam Reaction Plan.
Your Exam Reaction Plan Explained
"This is an excellent resource that is suitable for learners of all ages. This suite of resources would be a welcome addition to any well-being pastoral toolkit. It shares numerous strategies to help learners deal with the very real stress felt during assessment/exam time and would also fit perfectly within the PSHE curriculum and help learners and staff alike gain awareness"
Emma Maryan
Outreach Tutor, HMP Norwich
Guarantee
I am confident in how Create Your Personal Exam Reaction Plan can shift your students' anxiety levels and help them work on how they show up for class and for their exams. I offer a 60-day “Do the Work” guarantee.
Both your Teaching Team and your Students must complete both the course and their course workbooks to be able to show how they have used the course content.
If, after delivering and practicing the complete set of exercises, you and your students do not experience any shift in how they feel about themselves, handle their anxiety and behaviour and manage their exam stress, I will refund your investment.
I’m committed to making sure you get the value - and the change you deserve for your work.
Total Payment
£797
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5 xTeacher PowerPoints
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Teacher Workbook
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8 x Student PowerPoints
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Student Workbook
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Accompanying session mp3s
INSTALMENT PLAN
£427 x 2
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5 xTeacher PowerPoints
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Teacher Workbook
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8 x Student PowerPoints
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Student Workbook
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Accompanying session mp3s
"These resources will really help learners who want to overcome their own personal barriers when it comes to exams. There are so many different techniques taught in the course that there will be something that everyone can take away to help them and not just in the exam room! "
Cherry Greenacre
Pastoral Assistant, Norwich
Your Course Bonus'
My gift to you - bonus' to get you up and running as quickly as possible!
Your Fast Acting Bonus
A 10-week outline for delivering your
Creating a Personal Reaction Plan
This Teacher Timetable gives you an
at-a-glance schedule to help you plan your course delivery, with week-by-week suggestions on how to share the programme with your teachers and students (£39 Value)
Create Your Personal Exam Reaction Plan will help you shift how your students think about and manage their stress levels at exam time.
It will help your students learn how their current patterns of behaviour have got ‘set’ by their thinking, and show them ways to be quieter and more still.
They’ll look at how to choose kinder, and calmer ways to manage their feelings, working WITH you to put their own Exam Plan together.
Your course library will give you access to all the tools, resources and techniques, you need to help your students master their exam stress, valued at over £2000! This includes:
Let's Recap
Teacher Training Materials including
- 5 ready to go PowerPoint presentations to share the Exam Stress Course content (valued at £399)
- Fillable Teacher Workbook with handouts for group work (valued at £69)
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Materials for Student Stress Sessions
- 8 x Powerpoint Lesson Plans complete with Notes for classroom delivery (valued at £629)
- Fillable Student Workbook to guide students through the practical exercises (valued at £157)
- Supporting topic mp3 audios (valued at £149)
That makes everything you get worth more than £1500!
You might consider hiring an education consultant charging £180+ per hour to come in and lead a course to your Teachers and Staff. Over an exam lead-in period this could easily exceed over £1800 in total expenses.
But why spend more when you can invest in Create Your Personal Exam Reaction Plan programme for only £797?
You’ll get access to a range of resources shared with expert guidance, without draining that school budget that’s likely already taken a hammering.
And there’s no wait to start class, or a period of staff training to timetable for.
How do you put a value on the cost of helping your students handle their exam stress?
So here's what this course can do for you and your Students
- You'll re-wire their brain so that they think differently about themselves and their exams.
- The techniques you'll teach them will become their new 'go-to' response to any exam anxiety.
- This will change how they behave when they get 'spooked' by their feelings.
- With continued practice and encouragement, they'll get confident in using these new behaviours BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER any difficult situation.
- so they'll no longer be The Anxious Generation but instead be The Mindful Generation.
I've got the why, the what and the how all ready to go, so let’s do this together now!
NOW IT’S TIME TO MAKE A DECISION AND YOU HAVE 2 CHOICES
You could choose to tackle your students’ anxiety challenges on your own, without any outside support, but it could take longer to get the change in thinking that you need.
Your other choice is to choose Creating a Personal Exam Reaction Plan for your school, and help your students learn how to shake off The Anxious Generation cloak they’ve been wearing for a while now.
I'm here to show you how.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Create a Personal Exam Reaction Plan programme is suggested as a 10-week course with a new lesson shared with your students each week.
You can of course go quicker than this and lead more sessions each week, but you will need to allow time for students to practice each technique and make it part of their new way of responding to any exam stress they're feeling.
You will also need to allow time for your own Teacher Training delivery beforehand.
This is to get your Teaching Team up to speed and to ensure you are all working with the same material, to the same objectives.
The longer you can continue supporting students either 1:1 or in groups to work on their commitment to change, the more likely you are to see the shifts you all want
I understand the importance of budget restraints. It can be a challenge to justify an investment in a new exam stress solution to those who make the buying decisions.
But I encourage you to look on Creating a Personal Exam Reaction Plan as just that – an investment in the future potential of your students.
And remember, once you have the programme, it can go on working for you year after year for each new year group.
Once you see any shifts in your students, you’ll be wanting to introduce the ideas earlier in the year to give any challenging behaviour a longer period of attention.
Only you can decide if your students are worth the investment in their potential.
I’ve designed the course with you in mind! I know you need things to be up and running and quickly and easily as possible.
It’s why I’ve designed the Teacher Training PowerPoints and Student Sessions complete with teaching notes so there's no preparation time required on your part.
I couldn’t make it any easier for you to include this in your schedule.
Absolutely! Emotional well-being and personal development are the focus of the course.
It also promotes self-awareness, resilience, coping strategies and positive thinking, so it can be an additional and valuable part of your PSHE curriculum.
Alternatively, pick and choose which areas to bring into your current curriculum.
Once your Teachers have gone through the Teacher Training programme (5 sessions) and Student Sessions (8) they will be able to see where best to include particular themes into their own lesson content.
You may also like to share some topics in School Assemblies, set up a Meditation Lunchtime or After School Club or to create designated areas such as a Mindfulness Corner or quiet outdoor space.
There are many ways to deliver the content. You decide how to make it work best.
There are 2 areas where you are likely to see change.
Your Teaching Staff may find themselves more committed and energised, with increased purpose and confidence as they support your students.
It can give your Teachers more personal staff confidence in leading sessions and this can improve their own levels of stress.
You may see shifts in a number of key areas: increased focus and attention, improved memory, skills and recall, students feeling calmer and less overwhelmed, and with better self-belief.
Anyone can benefit from the calm and quiet that Mindful Practice can bring – but it does need commitment. For the Programme to work – everyone needs to learn the techniques and put them into regular practice.
After a while, these new mindful ways will replace students’ old automatic reactions, that were based on fear they no longer feel. based on fear.
Set individual objectives, for your students, support them to do regular practice and look for the changes that come with Mindful awareness.
This is an online course and the course contents will be available through your personal library login. You will be sent your details via email after purchase.
The investment is for one school. Download the materials and choose the best way to use them in your setting. The workbooks are fillable pdfs so you may like to load them onto your in-house system to share.
Your course comes in 2 parts – resources for you the Teacher, and Teaching resources to share with your Students. You can use the Teacher Training materials straight away.
It will take time to see results. Only you can decide what you want to measure.
What are your goals? Are you looking for changes in attitude, response behaviour, or are you more concerned with an improvement in Grades? As students get more at ease with how they manage their exam stress, you’ll find they’re able to do better in class. You may see an improvement in all areas.
Creating a Personal Exam Reaction Plan cannot guarantee any uplift in grade results as that is entirely down to how committed and consistent the students are to using the exercises to help them calm their feelings.
My aim for you is to change how your students handle themselves at exam time. But the clock is ticking down
... and you need to give your students enough time to make the new ways of thinking and acting covered in this course become THEIR way of managing their feelings.
That way, the exercises and techniques THEY choose to use, will help them stay in control and be able to walk calmly into the exam room and do the best they can when it matters.
I'm ready to set you up. Are you ready?
Disclaimer
Creating an Exam Reaction Plan takes no responsibility for your school achieving improved results or for your students’ responses to the exam experience. The quality of your Results cannot be guaranteed, and are dependent on the willingness and work of your students, staff and your school to commit to change.