**This Anxiety Support Pack is designed to support pastoral and wellbeing conversations with secondary school-aged students. **

It provides a clear, flexible structure for exploring anxiety and identifying practical coping strategies in a safe, non-clinical way.

This resource is ideal for use by:

• Pastoral leaders
• Year leaders
• Tutors
• SEN staff
• Safeguarding and wellbeing teams

What’s included:

• A clear session plan with suggested timings
• Practitioner guidance for safe and appropriate delivery
• Simple explanations of anxiety and the fight, flight or freeze responses
• A range of practical coping strategies, including:
  * Box breathing
  * 5-4-3-2-1 grounding
  * Positive self-talk
• Four student student worksheets to support reflection and discussion

How this resource can be used:

• As a one-to-one pastoral intervention
• Across one or multiple sessions
• Flexibly, based on student needs and readiness

Worksheets are designed as supportive tools and may be completed fully, partially, verbally or not at all.

Important note:

This resource supports wellbeing and pastoral care. It is not intended to replace counselling or mental health services and should be delivered by an appropriate adult within a safeguarding framework.