By Preeya Chibbra As a first-year trainee educational psychologist, I take a lot of inspiration from the professional community. One example of this is using one-page profiles as a way of introducing ourselves to children and young people before we begin working with them. I was interested in how these may be used in a … Continue reading “Back at you: feeding back to children and young people”
Category: Pupil voice
Listening to the Child’s Voice: Reflections from the DECP TEP Conference 2021
By Ellie Turner, Kate Jobson and Julie Smith-Lewis This year Division of Educational and Child Psychology (DECP) conference for trainee educational psychologists was online for the first time. So when we logged in at 9:15am sharp, there was no conference room to find and no babble of excited trainee educational psychologists glancing at pieces of … Continue reading “Listening to the Child’s Voice: Reflections from the DECP TEP Conference 2021”
“We can’t just ask them something and expect them to tell us”
By Litsa Cosma This week is Pupil Voice Week across the UK and schools are being encouraged to help their pupils to “Use Their Voice”. Being able to support children and young people to express their views has long been regarded as a key part of what educational psychologists do. While this appears to be … Continue reading ““We can’t just ask them something and expect them to tell us””