The need it meets
Purpose
Mind & Body helps students manage pressure, protect focus and sustain healthy performance. It combines practical wellbeing habits with realistic study-life routines.
What students experience
In the room
Students learn practical tools for stress regulation, sleep quality, concentration recovery and exam-day composure. They build a personal action plan that links wellbeing habits directly to academic outcomes.
Learning intentions
What we aim for
- Reduce stress and anxiety through practical, usable regulation strategies.
- Improve focus and concentration with repeatable cognitive routines.
- Strengthen healthy habits that support consistent study performance.
- Build resilient exam behaviours across Years 7-13 — directly addressing the wellbeing outcomes Estyn and Welsh Government now require schools to evidence and report.
Concrete gains
Lasting takeaways
- Students understand — for the first time for many — that wellbeing and attainment are not competing priorities. They are the same priority.
- More stable energy, focus and confidence in high-pressure periods.
- Clear personal strategies for recovery after setbacks.
The arc of the session
How the time is spent
Stress Regulation
Use quick techniques to reset the nervous system.
Focus Recovery
Regain concentration after distraction and overload.
Sleep & Energy
Improve rest habits that support memory and performance.
Exam Composure
Apply calm routines before and during assessments.
Resilience Plan
Create a personal bounce-back plan for difficult weeks.
The shift you can expect
After the session
Students leave with practical wellbeing routines that protect learning time, improve focus and support healthier, more sustainable exam performance. Schools receive a live feedback report from every session — ready to use as pupil voice evidence for Estyn self-evaluation, wellbeing provision reporting and Welsh Government funding applications.
Assurance for leaders
Curriculum & inspection fit
Estyn 2024 Framework
Mind & Body sits at the heart of Estyn's Wellbeing, Care, Support & Guidance inspection domain — giving students the practical regulation strategies inspectors look for as evidence of a school's commitment to genuine, embedded wellbeing provision.
Welsh Government Whole-School Wellbeing Framework
Welsh Government's statutory framework on emotional and mental wellbeing requires schools to assess, evidence and report their provision. Mind & Body generates the kind of measurable, student-facing intervention that satisfies that requirement — backed by £13.6 million in annual Welsh Government funding for exactly this area.
Curriculum for Wales — Four Purposes & Health and Well-being AoLE
Develops Healthy, Confident Individuals through stress regulation, sleep science and resilience planning. This is not enrichment — it is direct delivery into the statutory Health and Well-being Area of Learning and Experience, one of the six mandatory AoLEs in the Curriculum for Wales.
New Made-for-Wales GCSEs (from September 2025)
Wales's reformed GCSEs place greater emphasis on sustained independent performance across longer assessment cycles. Mind & Body prepares students for exactly that — building the composure, focus and recovery habits that determine whether revision effort converts into results.
What to arrange
Planning the visit
- Duration: 90 minutes, extendable to 2 hours when timetables allow.
- Cohort Size: Up to 100 students per session.
- Space & Setup: Hall or large room, table or row seating, screen + projector needed.
- Facilitator Pack: Presenter brings guided wellbeing resources and reflective tasks.
Evidence-based. Experience-built. Delivered in both languages.
Building a programme
Where to go next
Often paired with
Typical investment
Each follow-on workshop: £795 for two cohorts.
To book this session or discuss year groups, dates and language delivery, email: bookings@fflam.wales