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Mental health

Mental Health 1: Stress, communication and support - new designed student voice video

Mental Health 1 - Stress, communication and support

Mental Health 2 - Reducing stress - video

Mental Health 2 - Reducing stress

Mental health 3: staying mentally and physically healthy to cope with stress - video

Mental health 3: staying mentally and physically healthy to cope with stress

Perfectionism 1: Exploring perfectionism - new designed student voice video (8 mins)

Video - Students share their experiences of being a perfectionist - captioned and features mini-plenaries and 'Think about' discussion at the end

Perfectionism 2: Finding solutions video - new designed student voice video (8 mins)

Students share how they tried to avoid and tackle unhelpful perfectionism - features mini-plenaries and 'Think about' discussion at the end

Asking for help: teachers - video

Video in which successful A-Level students encourage current sixth form students to ask for help when needed. Fosters the growth mindset in that support is seen as key to making progress.

Asking for help: friends - video

Short video of successful sixth form students passing on advice about the importance of friendship groups and peer-to-peer support

Sleep is essential - video

Video in which successful sixth form students pass on advice about sleep being key to being able to study well

Emotional side of learning: feeling overwhelmed video

Video (4 mins) - successful students discuss feeling overwhelmed in Year 13 and how to cope.

Asking for help

Developing Understanding 1: Making the most of lessons (4 mins 22s) captioned video

GETTING THE GRADES VIDEO - mini-plenary points throughout and a discussion activity at the end

Feedback

Feedback powerpoint for tutorial time

Use our two videos on feedback and activities

Feedback 1: Responding To Feedback (6 mins) - new style video with captions and plenary discussion slides

Students discuss how they felt receiving feedback on their work, tests and mock exams

Feedback 2: Making the most of feedback (6 mins 43s) - video

Students the value of 'negative' feedback and it's importance in making progress

Growth Vs Fixed Mindset (2 mins video)

Explains the differences but without strategies that the 9 mins video offers

Fixed vs Growth Mindset video (9 minutes)

Not only explains the differences but also provides strategies for how to adopt a growth mindset which few other videos offer

Mental health/stress

Mental Health 1: Stress, communication and support - new designed student voice video

Mental Health 1 - Stress, communication and support

Mental Health 2 - Reducing stress - video

Mental Health 2 - Reducing stress

Mental health 3: staying mentally and physically healthy to cope with stress - video

Mental health 3: staying mentally and physically healthy to cope with stress

Overwhelmed

Emotional side of learning: feeling overwhelmed video

Video (4 mins) - successful students discuss feeling overwhelmed in Year 13 and how to cope.

Perfectionism

Perfectionism 1: Exploring perfectionism - new designed student voice video (8 mins)

Video - Students share their experiences of being a perfectionist - captioned and features mini-plenaries and 'Think about' discussion at the end

Perfectionism 2: Finding solutions video - new designed student voice video (8 mins)

Students share how they tried to avoid and tackle unhelpful perfectionism - features mini-plenaries and 'Think about' discussion at the end

Perfectionism - understanding whether you tend to be one - questions to ask yourself

Helpful 2 page PDF by authors of well researched book on perfectionism

Perfectionism - trying to change - self-reflection tasks

2 activities to try out provided by authors of a well researched book into perfectionism

Sleep

Sleep is essential for learning - Powerpoint to use in tutorial time

By Stephen Thomas

Sleep is essential - video

Video in which successful sixth form students pass on advice about sleep being key to being able to study well