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Why Speaking Anxiety Doesn’t Disappear, it Embeds
After 15 years of teaching speech, drama and public speaking to children, and working regularly with adults who are still struggling to use their voice under pressure, I’ve learned something important:
For many people, speaking anxiety doesn’t disappear. It embeds. It becomes quieter, more controlled, and easier to hide, but it’s still there.
Why I think taking drama exams at a young age normalises public speaking in children
as long as the pupil wants to take part (after lots of gentle encouragement) exams can really help to normalise public speaking.
Unleashing Your Child's Potential: How LAMDA Exams Open Doors to Top Independent Schools and Universities
As parents, we strive to provide our children with the best opportunities for their education and future. We want them to excel academically and develop essential life skills that will serve them well throughout their lives. If your child has a passion for performing arts, you may be wondering how to harness their talents to secure a spot in a top independent school or university. The answer lies in LAMDA (The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art) exams in Acting, Speaking in Public, or Verse and Prose.
Speaking Anxiety in Children & Young People
As a facilitator myself, I prioritise making sure that my students feel safe enough to approach subjects such as school-associated anxiety. In a Finding Voices group class not long ago, some of my students began chatting about online schooling and how it can be really scary to unmute themselves and offer an answer
A Day in the Life: Inspiring creativity, capturing confidence and sharing skills…online
Since moving online, we have had to come up with equally engaging and exciting ways to teach communication skills, similar to many teachers across the country this last year. In this blog post, we delve into a busy Speaking Works day in the life of one of our class teachers, Rebecca.
Keeping The Spark Alive: Nurturing Imagination & Creativity whilst homeschooling
In classes with our students, we find that some of the most exciting and successful classes are driven purely by the kids’ imagination. Taking a relatively mundane object that you’d have lying around - a pen for example, and asking them to imagine it as something completely different can be the beginnings of an incredible devising session.
Finding their Superhero Powers: The Power of Confidence in Young Speakers
You may be thinking that your child has missed out on a lot of time at school to socialise, improve their communication skills and “find their superhero powers”. What can you do from home to help?
Building Confidence & Managing Teen Anxiety
Anxiety is a really healthy normal response, which helps to protect us. By learning more about anxiety and why we experience it, we can see that it is not harmful and find ways to manage the difficult feelings it brings up
