This page offers general advice for staying healthy through what can be a very stressful time. If you need more support than this though please let Mr Shaw or your tutor know. Millie, our pastoral worker, Emma and Helen, our learning mentors, and our school counsellor, are all on hand to provide additional support in school. You can out find more information about this support on our post-16 school support page as well as links to external support.

Remember that you are not alone. Talking to someone about how you feel can make things better. Exams are important, but your health must come first. And if you are feeling well-rested and healthy, you will revise more productively, so do not think that giving yourself a well-earned break is wasted time.

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The below might be helpful to print off to use to manage your own stress bucket over the coming months. What are your good coping strategies? What bad coping strategies are you going to work hard to avoid?

Apps/websites:

https://themindfulnessapp.com/ : Meditation and mindfulness app.

https://www.sleepcycle.com/ : Helps monitor your sleeping habits so you can be in good condition for revision.

https://zombiesrungame.com/ : Helps monitor your exercise.

https://www.aurahealth.io/ : Aura is free to use for one, customized three-minute meditation per day.

https://www.headspace.com/ : Headspace provides free meditation and has a range of themed sessions to help you reduce stress, stay focused and put your mind at ease. You can access a two-week free trial or a library of no-strings-attached content designed to help with the mental struggles of life.

https://my.life/mylife-for-schools/ : Stop, Breathe and Think. You tell the app how you are feeling and it recommends a number of meditations to help you. There are free sections of this app.

https://www.smilingmind.com.au/smiling-mind-app : An Australian not-for-profit organisation providing mindfulness. All of Smiling Mind’s programmes are free.