"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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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_...

Can fully recommend adding all your placement days and team meetings into your 25/26 calendar and looking at it feeling like for a brief moment in time, everything is in order. Just me psyching myself up for year 3 with colour coordinated outlook 😅 #twittereps

Year 2 placement ✅ With a lovely surprise today that I was also nominated for our company ‘outstanding feedback from customers award’ at our end of year celebration event 🥰 Feeling grateful for being part of such a lovely team today ❤️ Now to rest and write some thesis… #edpsychs

I'd love to upskill in my EY work in relation to mark making and also help my little nephew with his along the way!

Calling all Newly-Qualified EPs It's that time of year - lots of viva's have been had and many passed 🙏 If this is you - please add your thesis to our community-led, open access thesis directory. This is about opening up and sharing the amazing work we do #edpsychs edpsy.org.uk/thesis-direc...

Strange seeing little old me on a presenting line up 🥳 Excited to be delivering a session with TEPICC at the Edpsy festival this year #edpsychs

Toileting and neurodivergent littlies has been on my learning agenda this week and I’ve stumbled across this which is great! autisticrealms.com/toileting-a-... #edpsychs

EP services can you help Hannah out with her review of different EP referral forms with a social justice lens? #edpsychs please share!

Is there a better feeling than a teenager who doesn’t easily talk to new adults trusting you with their story and telling you they wished you were coming back because you were kind and actually listened to them 🥰 Gotta hold on to these moments in the sea of reports and imposter syndrome #edpsychs

New #SEND stats 2025 out: Over 1.7m with SEND ⬆️ by 5.6% 5.3% of pupils with EHCPs ⬆️ by 0.5% 14.2% of pupils on SEN Support ⬆️ by 0.6% Autism most common need for EHCP pupils. SLCN most common need for SEN support pupils. Our analysis is on Monday. explore-education-statistics...

@fionacoley.bsky.social @edpsyched.bsky.social @edpsychjournal.bsky.social @edpsy.bsky.social @glennhinds.bsky.social @jgetaylor.bsky.social @duncanjee.bsky.social

Aspiring Assistant EPs! Come and find out about the mentorship scheme on offer through Bury/Salford/Tameside EPS on the 18th June 6-7pm to give aspiring Assistant EPs the chance to: Learn more about the scheme ask Qs and Meet Assistants, TEPs, and EPs #edpsychs forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Sorry for the 8 month gap (blame the doctorate!) but after realising I've had over 2000 readers (wow!), I've written another blog post! These are some of the non text-book books I've been reading that all my TEP friends keep wanting to borrow! #edpsychs edpsychsharespace.com/2025/05/17/w...

It would be fantastic if we could hear from TEPs from Birmingham, Bristol, Nottingham, Tavistock and Cardiff too 🙏🏻 Expressions of interest for our edpsy TEP group close Monday. Please share with your TEP colleagues ☺️👋🏻 #edpsychs #community

Hey #edpsychs more excellent Chris Packham teaching the world about neurodiverse experiences on iPlayer! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

What a lovely session with @tepicc1.bsky.social hearing the powerful voices of autistic black girls with @drtiffanynelson.bsky.social presenting her research for our webinar tonight. Lots of reflecting on positionality within our practice & intersectional experiences #edpsychs

📑New project page Karimah is exploring the experiences of Black Trainee Educational Psychologists, in England, through a psychosocial lens. More information on how to participate can be found here: edpsy.org.uk/blog/2025/pr... #edpsychs @tepicc1.bsky.social @bpsofficial.bsky.social

Great to see so many people signing up for this but we still have a few spaces left! Please share with your services or cohorts if you’re a tep or tutor! Free for TEPs! #edpsychs

Another great paper on EP consultation from Beth Royle published today in Educational Psychology in Practice and available open access at tinyurl.com/e6za9hdj. Hopefully lots of stimulating conversations about training and consultation to follow #BlueSkyEPs #consultation

Nice to see this training offer targeting support for secondary schools in reading. www.gov.uk/government/p... Interested to hear any feedback from any EPs or schools using this #edpsychs

Lovely to hear new TEPs to be finding the blog I wrote last year useful! Y2 has eaten my spare time sufficiently that my blogging progress is slow but hey ho I’ll share this again in the hopes it helps some more people edpsychsharespace.com/2024/08/17/t... #edpsych

Very excited for this!! Get signed up and sharing #edpsychs

Black Educational Psychologists Needed! 🚨 📢 Take part in a 1hr online interview! ✅ Flexible & confidential ✅ Amplify Black voices in EP research Interested? Click here to learn more & sign up: forms.office.com/e/FmmnR7DG1R Please share! 🙌🏾 #edpsychs #BlackEPs #SocialJustice

Finally about to send the inaugral email bulletin, #BlueSkyEPs #EdPsychs if you are interested in tech articles, discussions, and tips, please sign up 🙂 - Link below to join EP Tech Talks.

Some gorgeous enabling alternatives here from Neurowild 💕 #edusky #EdPsychs

💭We want to establish an 'edpsy TEP group' The energy and grassroots innovation of TEPs deserves a greater chance to influence what we do. Take a read and if interested, complete an expression of interest by 19th May. Please share with your TEP colleagues edpsy.org.uk/blog/2025/we... #edpsychs

Just finished this on my new sun lounger enjoying Easter break! An insightful perspective on different uses of SFBT in different contexts! #edpsychs

What a great opportunity for aspiring EPs!

Feels strange being a Y2 watching applicants wait for offers and Y1s interview for Y2 positions today! Sending good vibes out to all applying for unis or positions #edpsychs

Anyone got any good resources (books/activities) they use with autistic teenagers who want to gain confidence in initiating conversations? #edpsychs

What an amazing day at Manchester Virtual School’s conference today. So amazing to hear Ashley Jean Baptiste and Sophie Willian and a wider panel of knowledgeable care experienced key noters speak about their experiences in real life! #edpsychs

It’s always valuable as a TEP or EP to reconnect with parents lived experiences and the importance of finding where children shine! #edpsychs

Me at work: organised, planning, thinking carefully about what I’m doing and why Me in the fabric shop: #edpsychs

Can anyone help Cathy out?