How Thinking Skills, Techniques, and Teamwork Reduce Exam Anxiety and Improve Results
This is a challenging time for your students.
Across the country, schools are seeing the same signs:
- Students showing increased anxiety
- A reluctance to learn
- Poor self control and confidence
- And a worrying rise in disruptive or withdrawn behaviour
These issues aren’t just emotional—they affect all parts of the school.
When students struggle to manage their stress, it filters through your entire school system. From your pastoral care team stretched thin, to classroom disruptions, and ultimately to a drop in exam performance.
You don’t need a quick fix. You need a school-wide stress strategy that works for everyone involved in your students’ success.
What’s Causing the Rise in School Stress?
We’re working with the Anxious Generation. Post-pandemic challenges, social disconnection, and high-stakes academic expectations have created a perfect storm. And when stress isn't managed well, it becomes behaviour—resistance, avoidance, panic attacks, aggression, or apathy.
Left unchecked, this shows up as:
- Low motivation and poor revision habits
- Exam resistance or underperformance
- Additional burdens on SEN and support teams
- A decline in league table outcomes
A Proactie Stress Strategy is Now Essential
Our solution is the Exam Mindset Framework, built around a simple but powerful 3-way strategy:
✔ Thinking Skills
✔ Techniques
✔ Teamwork
This isn’t just another wellbeing initiative.
It’s a structured, strategic approach to helping students understand how their mind works under pressure—and how to work with it, not against it.
Over 5 CPD sessions, supportive Zoom calls, and practical classroom follow-up, your teaching and pastoral staff will gain the confidence to deliver tools that make a real difference. Students will build their own Personal Exam Reaction Plan—a mindset-based guide to managing their stress, staying calm, and responding effectively in high-pressure moments.
How This CPD Transforms Schools:
For Students:
- Reduced anxiety and avoidance
- Increased confidence in learning and revision
- Calm, controlled reactions under pressure
- Better attendance, behaviour, and engagement
For Teachers:
- Practical stress-management tools to use in class
- Reduced disruptions and behavioural outbursts
- Improved teaching time and classroom atmosphere
- Greater connection and teamwork with students
For School Leaders:
- A measurable strategy to improve exam outcomes
- Fewer calls for separate invigilation or exclusions
- Evidence of proactive student wellbeing support
- A boost to your school’s reputation and results
Let’s Get Your Strategy in Place
Stress is not going away. But with the Exam Mindset Framework, you can lead your students—and your staff—through it with strength and structure.
If you want a school stress strategy that improves wellbeing and exam results, get in touch today to book CPD for your team.
We’ll work together to create a calmer, more capable student body—ready for the challenges ahead.
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