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Exam anxiety

12 must-read tips before you start your A Level revision

March 14, 2022March 14, 2022Oxford Secondary

You can find lots more great advice and practical support for students and parents on our  A Level hub ! When it comes to preparing for exams you may feel bombarded with advice coming from lots of different sources to the point that you don’t know where to begin. It may not feel easy to begin with, but by […]

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Summer Exams 2022: wellbeing resource hub

February 11, 2022May 18, 2022Oxford Secondary
Revision Peace of mind from Oxford

With the return of examinations in Summer 2022, this blog series hears a range of expert voices who share their insight and advice covering wellbeing approaches for students and teachers in an often uncertain post-pandemic world. Read our series ‘Looking after students and staff wellbeing during exam season’ Part One: Thomas Michael, a Safeguarding and […]

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Looking after student and staff wellbeing during exam season: Part 2 of 3

February 9, 2022March 24, 2023Oxford Secondary

Our school is strongly focused on well-being for both pupils and staff, and understands that if staff well-being or morale is low then this can impact teaching and learning. Since returning to school and staff have found pupils increasingly aware of their own well-being, too. PSHE lessons often discuss well-being and promote and encourage strategies […]

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2022 A Level exams: Stress and Skin

February 2, 2022February 3, 2022Oxford Secondary

You can find lots of great advice and practical support for students and parents on our  A Level hub ! Skin problems, skin anxiety and psychological stress are extremely common in teenage years and are closely interlinked. How does this all work? Skin conditions are very complex and lots of factors play a role. The hormones we produce when […]

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Keep calm, they’re only SATs!

March 3, 2016March 2, 2016Oxford Primary

We’ve done them before and we’ll do them again. That’s a certainty. Although this year there is so much uncertainty surrounding the SATs that I fear the children may begin to pick up on it, which is wholly inexcusable. We’ve all had the bad day when the entire class has begun to feast on your […]

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