Creating an Exam-Healthy Atmosphere in the Classroom and Boarding House during the Summer Term
🏷️ £90-180, with additional tickets from £45
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Course outline:
This session explores how teachers and boarding staff can create a supportive, exam-friendly environment during the Summer Term, helping students manage stress and perform at their best.
Training topics will include:
- Understanding the impact of exam stress on students
- Practical strategies for reducing anxiety in classrooms and boarding houses
- Techniques to support wellbeing and focus during revision periods
- Communication with parents and pastoral teams
- Promoting resilience and positive study habits
Learning outcomes:
- Identify key signs of exam stress in students
- Implement strategies to create calm, supportive environments
- Support students’ emotional wellbeing during the Summer Term
- Enhance collaboration between teaching and pastoral teams
- Advise students and parents on effective coping strategies
This event is joint with:

Speaker:
Katherine Radice
Katharine Radice has 20+ years of experience in the classroom and is a leading expert on how to support young people through school. Her two most recent books – Exam Stress: A Practical and Positive Guide for Teachers and The Parent’s Guide to Exam Stress – have been highly praised across the secondary school sector: The Parent’s Guide to Exam Stress has been described as
- A book to start as soon as your child starts secondary school and keep coming back to – Nicola Morgan, The Teenage Brain Woman and author of Blame My Brain
- A must for parents who want to understand more and help – Michael Senior, founder of NetSixthForm network for UK sixth form leaders
- Full of practical, supportive and kind advice – Marina Gardiner Legge, Head of Oxford High School
- for more reviews, see here.
Katharine currently combines her work as an educational consultant and author with teaching part-time in a Cambridge secondary school and a pastoral role as the Transition and Participation Advisor for Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.