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 Mindful way of responding to their exam stress.

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 both want.

We 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 intake of exam students.

Once you see the visible shifts in your students, you’ll be wanting to introduce Mindfulness earlier in the year, to get an even longer run in.

This will give the students more time to let Mindfulness become their new automatic response pattern to exam stress (instead of any previous disruptive behaviour).

You’ll need to decide if your students are worth the investment in their potential

I’ve designed the course with you in mind! I know you need clear training delivered in the minimum time frame.

It’s why I’ve designed the Teacher Training PowerPoints to fit your schedule.

 And don’t forget the 8 x ‘done for you’ Exam Stress Sessions, complete with teaching notes and delivery PowerPoints. There’s no preparation time required on your part.

Once you and your teaching staff are familiar with the contents, (described in the
5 x Teacher Training PowerPoints) and have timetabled delivery, you’ll find the Student Stress Sessions easy to lead.

I couldn’t make it any easier for you to include this in your schedule.

Ask yourself “Why do our students need us to invest our time in this now?”

I think you already know the answer to that one!

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 Mindfulness sessions and this can improve their own levels of stress.

The practice of Mindfulness as a solution to exam stress is an ongoing process and your students and staff will need to time to turn the exercises into new habits.

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 make them available 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 Mindful techniques to help them calm their feelings.