Students and teachers often experience anxiety before the new school year starts. Even if you feel positive about your experience of school and have no particular reason to worry or fear, it’s still a big wrench to go from the relative freedom of the holidays to the pressures of work, study and peers. But for some people the anxiety is major and it can spoil the last weeks and days of the holiday. Scottish schools start back quite soon so I’ve written Five Ways to Build Resilience For a New School Year for Scottish Book Trust about how to prepare the young people in your households – and yourselves, as my advice is usually just as good for adults as young people!
I wrote a post for Hodder Education some years ago. It doesn’t seem to be searchable any more so I have reposted it here with a couple of tiny tweaks for 2024.
My books Be Resilient and No Worries are perfect for this topic, helping young people become stronger to face anything difficult.
And I have just written a new post on my Substack (where you’ll find all new writing from now on.)