Congratulations!

Feeling all the feels as TEP applicants get their offers today and realising I’m coming to the end of my TEP journey. Reflecting on how much I have learnt and grown in this role and how much more learning there is to do! Congratulations to all those accepting a place today #edpsychs

"Books bring us together" 🩵

We're proud to share our new short film Stories That Connect Us, based on real conversations with children in adoption, foster care or kinship care.

Thank you so much to all the children and families who took part, and to the wonderful Lemn Sissay for the voiceover!

#edpsychs I am interested in broadening my curriculum based dynamic assessment frameworks - How do you assess the specifics in maths, reading and writing (maybe also do you spend time doing this and why?) what are your go to resources if you do? Are you using something existing or making your own?

We still have spaces available for February and March sessions if you want to come and prep for interview with us! #edpsychs please share

This is amazing! On my to do list once I’m qualified to make one for my nephew ❤️

It may ruin your life for the better ha

I raise you M&S triple chocolate cookies

Great work @maxpurpose.bsky.social and @fionacoley.bsky.social for another super @positivitea-eps.bsky.social conference today. I always meet someone new in the breakout rooms and come away with lots of thoughts about how to take positive psychology into my work #edpsychs

Thanks Fi! Cathy and I had some great reflections about MI in my observation so I’m sure you’d approve!

Final university observation completed today! So grateful for a team of supportive supervisors at uni and on practice. As the deadlines are ticked off this whole being a qualified EP in September malarkey Is starting to feel very imminent! #edpsychs

We are back again running our reflective spaces for Black and Global majority applicants. Eventbrite links will be up next week if you check back in soon. Drop us a line on our TEPICC socials if you have any questions #edpsychs please share!

Thanks Kate! Yes its hard to balance placement and uni work and job applications so its nice to tick something off the list!

Turning your placement out of office on < turning your placement out of office on with a call to say you’ve been offered a job for Sept 2026 🥳❤️ Now on to analyse my thesis data… #edpsychs

📢 Calling ALL Trainee EPs

Give us your views about edpsy, and win one of 10 pairs of buddy tickets to the 2026 PositiviTEA Conference

We want to enhance and build on what we do for TEPs and your views can help!

More info here: edpsy.org.uk/blog/2025/tr...

#PositiviTEA #edpsychs

I’ve just finished this book and I loved it! Recommend to all educators as a powerful reminder of the significant adversity many of the children we teach face and how we can show up to be an ‘every day hero’ Check out Jaz’s ted talk too! youtu.be/q3xoZXSW5yc?... #edpsychs

🌟 New blog post

It can mean different things to different people - but what skills might underpin effective Consultation?

A team from Manchester have created the ECHOES framework for developing consultation skills.

Read here: edpsy.org.uk/blog/2025/ec...

#edpsychs #consultation

@drcathyatkinson.bsky.social

@drcathyatkinson.bsky.social have you seen this?

We’re very excited to share that the Barriers to Education website has officially launched: lnkd.in/e5vmcDaQ

The website has been created to bring parents, carers and professionals together with practical, compassionate approaches that make a real difference.

I fear you will just recieve the above meme in real life form. My table isn’t big enough for analysing in analogue it seems 😅

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Past me: what if I don’t have enough data that’s codable
present me: yep no that definitely didn’t happen
(See meme for my current state of being) #edpsychs

Fi we just had some team cpd reflecting on change models for systemic work and reading this I realised that maybe we could be thinking about MI approaches when we are first working with schools looking to make a systemic change to identify what is most important as a focus

So lovely to have such an great group of TEPs AEPs and aspiring EPs attending our @tepicc1.bsky.social session today at the @edpsy.bsky.social festival. I've left with a very full cup and feeling privileged to have co-facilitated the session with such a reflective and hopeful group #edpsych

Searching for participants! If you could please share with your schools I’d be very grateful!

We’re presenting at the Edpsy festival next week facilitating a reflective session using the tree of life franework. We hope to support current and aspiring TEPs to think about personal and professional identity and how we can support collective action within the profession. #edpsychs

Great research from Becky here about physical activity interventions for young people‘s mental health :)
#twittereps

https://southampton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4NR1kshxmmZeYke Are you a qualified or trainee educational psychologist who sometimes feels like a fraud, doubts your abilities, or attributes success to luck rather than skill? If so, you may be experiencing Impostor Syndrome, and I would love to hear from you!

Are you a qualified or trainee educational psychologist who sometimes feels like a fraud, doubts your abilities, or attributes success to luck rather than skill? I would love to hear from you!
southampton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I found as my question changed as I got to know papers more then having something I could move things between and sort papers out really helped :) Although given the current state of my lit review I could probably also do with some tips 😅

For my SLR I have my key concept I’m scanning for in mind and literally control f for that word stem as a starting point to weed anything out that doesn’t have that as a clear focus. Also I use endnote to organise and group papers based on my inclusion or exclusion criteria or add my own notes