Top tips on supporting your child during exams: As the exam season begins, Action for Children’s Parent Talk team issues top tips on supporting your child during exams Exam stress can feel overwhelming for many children and young people, and the worry and anticipation can often ripple throughout the whole household. Last year, over 5 […]
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Anxiety UK claim that 1 in 6 young people experience anxiety. At no time is this stress felt more than during the exam season. As a parent, you want to ensure that you are well-equipped to support your child and reduce feelings of stress as much as possible. However, it is also reasonable and healthy […]
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Exams and the importance of Plan B: As exam results are released, Priory child psychiatrist Dr Hayley van Zwanenberg tells parents: ‘Why having a ‘Plan B’ is so important in reducing a child’s anxiety’ It’s been a stressful year for students, culminating for those in England receiving AS, A level and GCSE results this week, […]
As exam-season rolls around once again, the perennial problem of exam stress and its effect on the mental health of young people and those around them comes back into acute focus. As an education technology company, we work with over 100,000 students and their teachers in the run-up to exams. From my own experience of […]
It was little over two weeks past that I found myself in Sackville Park in the centre of Manchester next to the statue of Alan Turing after having put pen to paper for the final time for this, my third year at medical school. Having sent a baggy-eyed, sun-starved looking selfie to the small number of people who care, […]