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Unleash your parent power to help your child succeed

If your child has an important test on the horizon it is likely that the nerves are starting to kick in, and you are all thinking about how to prepare for the big day as a family. This pack of premium resources designed by Dr. Kathy Weston from Tooled Up Education provides research-backed ideas and practical solutions for making sure that your child’s brain and body is prepared to tackle the test in a positive and successful way.

This set of nine resources includes videos, practical tips, and downloadable hands-on activities you can work through with your child in your own time.

“These resources will help to reduce stress, worries, and wobbles as test day approaches, by giving families ideas for preparing children both mentally, and physically, so they can perform to the best of their abilities. It’s so important that children feel calm, confident, and prepared as they move towards exams, and these resources can help parents to nurture these feelings.” Dr Kathy Weston

Parent Power Toolkit Part 3: Approaching Test Preparation in the Right Way.

The resources in the third part of the Parent Power Toolkit will help families get ready for exam day, physically and mentally. Making sure your child feels confident and happy on exam day can help them to do their best, and the ideas and activities contained in these resources will provide useful ways to achieve this.

Contents of Part 3:

Video – Charging Up My Body and Brain: Dr Weston shares four simple tips to boost your child’s body and brain, helping them to feel more motivated and alert each day. She explains, in simple terms, why getting a good night’s sleep, exercising, eating a great breakfast and trying new experiences are all things which help us to function well and feel good. 

Video – Tips for Relaxation: At times when our nerves are high, such as before a performance, an exam, or simply when we are trying something a bit scary or new, we can all feel anxious. In this video, Dr Weston outlines some simple calming exercises, which can help us to feel more relaxed. This video is aimed at children, but the ideas within it are effective for everyone.

Activity – Preparing and Packing for My Exam or Test: When we have a test or exam coming up, there are lots of things that we can do to help us feel more prepared and ready on the day. Keep this sheet handy as a little reminder of the things that you and your child might need to think about.

Activity – Managing Our Own Wobbles: An Activity for Grown Ups: We all want our children to succeed, whether that’s academically, socially, or in their other interests and hobbies. When children have something important coming up, it’s important for us to manage our own feelings of anxiety about their experience or the outcome. This evidence-based activity will help parents to manage their own worries.

Video – Managing Parental Anxiety: In this video, Dr Weston provides some top, evidence-based tips to help us as parents watch our tone, gestures and language, to ensure our own anxieties and worries about our children’s upcoming tests doesn’t show through to them, as well as to coach, rather than soothe our children.

Video – Supporting Exam Performance: There is plenty we can do at home to help our children feel prepared and calm ahead of an exam. Here are some quick and simple tips for you to try and apply. 

Article – Supporting Exam Performance at Home: Tests and exams are a fact of life for all children, and as parents, our goal should be to teach them that exams shouldn’t be stressful or traumatic. These tips on preparing children for assessments will help you to consider how you talk about exams in family life and how to help your child feel calm and in control and practicalities for the days before the test.

Activity – Preparing for a School Interview: When children are preparing for an interview for a new school, it can be nerve wracking for them and us. This activity helps them to consider all of their strengths, and prepares them for things that they might be asked. It can be used at home or school. Use it in conjunction with our ‘Top 10 Interview Practice Tips’ article.

Article – Top 10 Interview Practice Tips: This article provides ten tips on supporting children through an interview process calmly, helping them to feel prepared and comfortable.

More about the Parent Power Toolkit

ISEB has partnered with the award-winning team at Tooled Up Education and children’s mental health and wellbeing expert Dr Kathy Weston to produce the ISEB Parent Power Toolkit; four premium content resource packs designed to empower parents to support their children’s wellbeing and resilience as they approach periods of stress, such as admissions exams.

These specially-developed resources will help you find out how your support can help prepare your child for a healthy, positive, and successful test experience.

The resources in the toolkit help parents and guardians ensure they have the right strategies in place to prioritise their child’s mental health and wellbeing during stressful periods. Material has been developed to be flexible and easy to integrate into busy family life, prioritising a healthy balance between revision and relaxation.

The Parent Power Toolkit supports families working towards any entrance exams and are great for parents of 10–13-year-old children. The packs include a mix of videos and downloadable activities parents can complete with their children at home.

The four premium content packs are:

– Part 1: Laying the Foundations for the Admissions Journey (available now)
– Part 2: Setting a Sustainable Revision Programme (available now)
– Part 3: Approaching Test Preparation in the Right Way (available now)
– Part 4: Recognising Outcomes and Looking Ahead (coming soon)

How to order and access the Parent Power Toolkit:

Simply add this product to your basket and check out as normal. You will need either a Parent/Guardian (Families) account, or a Teacher account to be able to access these products. If you have an account already, please log in to your account before you complete your purchase for the best experience. If you don’t yet have an account, you can create one when checking out, by clicking ‘CREATE ACCOUNT’, or you can create an account in advance of purchasing. After you have completed the checkout process, make sure that you are logged in to your account and click the person icon in the side menu of the website/online shop. This will take you to your account dashboard. Click on the tab for Premium Content purchases. You can now access a webpage with all of the resources in Part 2 on it.

Availability:

Unfortunately, the Parent Power Toolkit is only available to purchase in the UK – customers outside of the UK will not be able to check out with these products. We are working towards international sales and will notify customers when we can sell to customers outside of the UK.

Shipping & Returns:

This is a digital product and will be available immediately after purchase. Due to the digital nature of this product, it cannot be returned/refunded.