Helping
you to help
your child
School Anxiety
Journal Prompts
Journal prompts to help children and adults
understand and respond to school anxiety
Fully Introduction
understanding
the problem There are a LOT of children struggling to go
can help us to school at the moment, including mine...
work out what It's very hard to help them to attend if we
to try don't understand what is keeping them
away or what might help them to feel safer,
so these journal prompts are designed to
help children to write, draw or talk about
how things are going for them.
It won't magically lead to answers, but it
will aid both your and your child's
understanding and it's surprising how fully
understanding the problem can sometimes
help us work out some ways forwards.
You are welcome to copy and share these
pages.
Good luck!
Pooky x
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What does the word
SCHOOL
make you think?
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When you wake up in the morning, how do
you imagine your arrival at school will be?
I SEE
I HEAR
I FEEL
I THINK
anything else...
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When did you recently feel safe and calm?
You could consider:
Where were you?
Who was with you?
What could you see, hear or smell?
Did anything specific help you feel calm?
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What are the five best things about school?
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What are the five worst things about school?
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Feeling Understood
Who at school understands you?
What do they understand about you?
What do they do that makes you feel understood?
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How does your body feel in the good times?
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How does your body feel in the hard times?
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Can you think of a time when something at
school felt hard but you did it?
What I did
What helped
How I felt
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CHANGE
What would you like to change about school and
what would you like to keep the same?
KEEP
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If you could wave a magic wand and make
your perfect school, what would it be like?
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BIG ideas that would make a difference but might take a while
Little
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ideas that are so simple they could be done tomorrow
What ideas do you have that might help make
school a better place for students like you?
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What does the word
HAPPY
make you think?
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you to help
your child
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