School-related anxiety is totally normal, but help is at hand to gently help your child back into the classroom with confidence
School plays a fundamental role in a child’s development and has a big impact on their overall well-being.
Department for Education research suggests there are a number of reasons that absence from school has increased. Some children experience severe anxiety, or have complex needs or underlying conditions, that mean that school can be challenging. Where this is the case, parents can also talk to teachers and a healthcare professional, like a GP, if they haven’t done so already for guidance. For many children though, their worry is mild and temporary.
To help you to gain a better understanding of what could be driving your child's worry and gently encourage them to talk it through, enabling them to keep going to school, there are tips, advice and resources available. "The key for us is to make sure we ask the right questions to try and understand why a student is struggling with school. We can then respond to that in a bespoke way, which we do with various strategies. We've had real success in plotting the worries they have against a timeline, from getting up in the morning to going to sleep at night, so we can get a clear picture and try and spot what the recurring patterns could be.
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