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A worksheet for Upper KS2 pupils to learn about managing anxiety and combating anxious feelings. This helpful and structured worksheet is designed to help pupils with their mental health and wellbeing by: understanding what anxiety is, recognising how anxiety affects us mentally, physically and behaviourally, and managing anxious feelings using appropriate calm down strategies.

The Managing Anxiety worksheet has been designed to assist pupils with managing anxious feelings about a particular situation. It encourages them to reflect upon their anxious feelings and develop an action plan for dealing with them.

Pupils use the worksheet to:
Identify a situation that is making them anxious,
Give their anxiety a rating from 1-10,
Explain how this anxiety is affecting their thoughts, bodies and behaviour,
Consider the worst possible outcome of the situation that is causing the anxiety,
Evaluate the likelihood of this outcome.

Pupils are also asked to write down positive self-talk statements that they can use to help manage their anxious thoughts, note down strategies they can use to reduce their anxious feelings and record one possible outcome of the situation that does not make them feel anxious. Encouraging your pupils to articulate and record their feelings and concerns with this helpful worksheet could help them to become more self-aware and evaluate how they are managing challenging situations, so why not give it a try with your young learners?