Apr 25, 2022

Adele Bates is Behaviour and Education Specialist, Author and Public Speaker. She empowers school leaders and teachers to support pupils with behavioural needs and SEMH to thrive with their education. She’s an International Keynote Speaker, a features expert on teenagers and behaviour for BBC Radio 4 and the author...

Apr 21, 2022

Planning revision requires practice and thought and yet we very rarely teach or model good revision planning with our students.  In this podcast we look at the when (creating a realistic timetable), what (what to revise and how to set revision targets) and how (how to map what you want to learn onto your timetable) of...

Apr 20, 2022

Between the ages of approximately 10 and 25 the brain undergoes a huge change.  Whilst this is happening we see what is typically described as ‘teenage behaviour’ - emotional, irrational decision making, risk taking behaviour, parents becoming less important and peers becoming more important, none of which is ideal...

Apr 19, 2022

A little bit of stress is not a bad thing - it helps motivate students to revise for exams, but too much or too little can lead to students giving up on revision for a variety of reasons.  But how can we enable students to deal with exam stress (the worrying thoughts they may have) in the build up to exams.  In this...

Apr 18, 2022

Many of the students taking exams are feeling anxious, this is perfectly normal and we need to teach our students how to manage anxiety. This podcast covers the normal response to an stressful event, how to help students understand what is going on then identify this response in their own body and then four strategies...