My 8yo girl has totally lost confidence at school. Believes can't do anything.

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Is there anyone else whose child has suffered this kind of massive loss of confidence and any ideas how to deal with it? Am trying best to reassure, tests aren't important, everyone loves you, we can work it out together etc but nothing seems to be helping. Any advice? Does she need counselling?

Have you spoken to the school? Can you think of any specific incident which has triggered this - change of class, new subjects at school, something which happened outside of school? How long has it been going on?