Relaxation Exercise for Children
The return to school after the summer holidays can be a nerve-wracking and challenging time for pupils, teachers and parents.
Anxious feelings are normal and expected during times of transition or change. This is especially true for children and young people going back to school for the start of the new academic year.
If your child is feeling anxious or worried about going back to school, this activity from the Transition Tool Box resource may help to calm their nerves:
Managing stress and anxiety: A relaxation strategy
Tense each of the major muscle groups in your body for about 5-10 seconds and then relax. Some parts of your body may be more tense than others. Try to find these and pay more attention to them.
Practice! Practice! Practice!
- Choose a quiet, warm and comfortable place
- Sit in a comfy chair or lie on your bed
- Make sure you won't be disturbed
- Tense your muscles in your arms, hands, legs and feet, stomach, shoulders, neck and face
- Tense for 5-10 seconds and then relax. Repeat.
- Close your eyes and count slowly to 100
Keep a relaxation diary for one week. Use this strategy when you begin to feel stressed or fed-up. Then reflect!
The tool box contains a range of activities to support your child with the back-to-school transition preparing them for their new routines and new environment. To order the full tool box, visit here.
Vaccination Reminder
With a few weeks until the start of the university term it's important that Students are up to date with vaccines for
- MenACWY
- HPV
- MMR
This can be checked on the NHS app
Exam Results
Many young people will be feeling stressed as they await their exam results. They may be feeling a lot of pressure to meet expectations – be it their own, their family’s or their schools – and knowing the impact the results can have on their future plans.
Visit our Exam Results page for advice on how to support young people through this period.
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"It is important to remember that these are not just statistics; they represent shattered lives and devastated families" Patrick Green, CEO of The Ben Kinsella Trust, says.
View the full report here.
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Results day this year is on Thursday 15 August 2024. For information for from the Education Hub to find out What's next after picking up your A level, T level and VTQ results.
Gloucestershire Healthy Living and Learning
Welcome to Gloucestershire Healthy Living and Learning. This is an umbrella organisation for Gloucestershire Healthy Schools and Gloucestershire Healthy FE (Further Education).
GHLL was launched in July 2012 for schools and colleges across Gloucestershire, supported by Leading Teachers.
Funding is through Public Health and by Gloucestershire County Council. Schools and colleges are offered this supported intervention at no cost.