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Putting psychology at the heart of learning

We offer a wide range of educational psychology services for schools and educational settings and can provide educational psychology services directly to parents in Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, and neighbouring counties.

We are now taking orders from schools and educational settings for the academic year 2024/25

Check our Contract Terms and Pricing

In person training delivered by a P4L Educational Psychologist

Calming Kittens in basket
Calming Kittens
Calming Kittens
Calming Kittens

NEW: Calming Kittens Training

Emotional regulation, in person, training for KS1 teachers and TAs, and early years practitioners

Thursday, 6th March 2025, 9:30am to 12:30pm
The Aylesbury Vale Academy, Paradise Orchard, Aylesbury, HP18 0WS
Booking and further information can be found on Eventbrite

https://Calmingkittens.eventbrite.co.uk

Why Psychology4Learning?

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Educational Psychology

Our team of sixteen Educational Psychologists help schools, other educational settings and parents across Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, and neighbouring counties. We help children and young people aged 0 to 25 by providing advice and training on how schools, parents and carers might help children who are struggling at school or college.

Educational Psychologist support can be requested due to concerns regarding learning difficulties / special educational needs.

Services

Annual contracts run over the academic year. Orders are taken during the Summer term, ready for the work to begin in September. Any number of units can be purchased and will be delivered over the academic year. Delivery of annual contracts takes priority over mid year ad hoc work. The contract can include the educational psychologist working with individual children, delivering training to staff or parents, staff supervision, school wide advice and support across a range of topics.

Schools are welcome to contact P4L to request individual pieces of work / ad hoc work throughout the academic year. However, we will need to check educational psychologist availability before accepting the order as work on annual contracts takes priority.

Consists of a 45 minute phone discussion between the school and the Educational Psychologist, plus 15 minute report writing by the psychologist to ensure there is a record of the discussion.

P4L is able to provide bespoke training delivered on school site or via Microsoft Teams. Training can be for school staff or parents, but must be purchased by a school. Further details can be found on the training page.

The psychologist may recommend implementing a specific intervention. The psychologist will be able to advise on how to run the intervention, can offer training to school staff so that they run the intervention, or can manage its implementation on the schools behalf.

Educational Psychologists can provide individual or group supervision for school staff, thus providing school professionals with a trusted environment in which to review, discuss and problem solve.

Psychology4Learning has very limited availability for parent commissioned work. If a parent / carer has concerns regarding their child’s learning, please speak to your school class teacher, and / or the school SENCO, and discuss working with an educational psychologist with them first. They will be able to advise you on the different options.

“… Williams reading has really improved ….  He’s beginning to really enjoy reading now, which is incredible”
Gemma, Parent

Special Educational Needs

ADHD is a group of behavioural symptoms that include inattentiveness, hyperactivity and impulsiveness.

ASD is a condition that affects social interaction, communication, interests and behaviour. It’s estimated that about 1 in every 100 people in the UK has ASD. More boys are diagnosed with the condition than girls.

Dyspraxia is a developmental co-ordination disorder (DCD), affecting physical co-ordination that causes a child to perform less well than expected in daily activities for his or her age, and appear to move clumsily.

Dyscalculia is usually perceived of as a Specific Learning Difficulty (SpLD) for mathematics, or, more appropriately, arithmetic

Dyslexia is a Specific Learning Difficulty (SpLD) that primarily affects the skills involved in accurate and fluent word reading and spelling. Note that there are lots of reasons why a person may have literacy difficulties, it may not be classified as dyslexia.

There are a range of catch-up literacy interventions that can be used with children and young people.

There are a range of numeracy based interventions that can be used with children and young people.

According to the latest (November 2017) Department of Education research report, there are six general principles to facilitate transitions from primary to secondary school.

It’s normal for children to feel worried or anxious from time to time, such as when they’re starting school or nursery, or moving to a new area. But for some children, anxiety affects their behaviour and thoughts on a daily basis, interfering with their school, home and social life. It may also lead to school avoidance.

SEND

“Thank you so much, your advice and assessment regarding Ryan’s needs , it was all accurate and has helped Ryan reach this far!”
Eve, parent

Our Educational Psychologists

Psychology4Learning is committed to providing a high quality educational psychology service; seeking to continually improve so that we can ensure the best possible outcomes for children and young people. All of our educational psychologists have many years experience working in the education sector, and have worked as educational psychologists within local government.

Our educational psychology services are fully customised to the needs of the school.

  • Health and Care Profession Council (HCPC) – all psychologists are registered with HCPC

  • Code of conduct and ethical guidelines – we adhere to the British Psychological Society guidelines

  • Enhanced DBS – all psychologists have enhanced DBS checks

  • Private insurance – all our psychologists are fully insured to work privately

Products developed by Psychology4Learning educational psychologists

Calming Cat

Calming Kittens

The Tree of Me

Thrive in 5

Mental health and wellbeing programme – helps children to talk about their feelings as well as offering coping strategies.
Calming Cat

Mental health and wellbeing programme – helps children to talk about their feelings as well as offering coping strategies

Calming Kittens
Calming Kittens

For early years and KS1 – helps children to identify and talk about their feelings, thoughts and behaviours

Tree of me

Self-Esteem whole class activity set – A hard-wearing classroom display, sticker pack and teacher’s guide

Thrive in 5
Thrive in 5

Social, emotional and communication skills – Four packs of 20 cards, short and easy to do activities for Foundation, KS1 and KS2

Visit the ‘P4L Shop’ for more resources

Freely available information for parents or professionals that can be found on the Internet

Other websites

Links to other websites that contain useful information regarding learning disabilities, SEND, interventions etc.

External documents

Links to a range of external documents related to children and young people with special educational needs.

Parent Leaflet

Provides a short overview of educational psychology and what to expect when working with an educational psychologist.

edpsy.org.uk

Aims to describe and explain the EP role in plain english and is then translated into many other languages in order that young people, parents and carers, schools and educational psychology services can better understand what an EP can offer and provide.

“Hattie absolutely loved working with Sharon, she came home buzzing that day and said what fun it was”
Emma, Parent