The East Renfrewshire Educational Psychology Service have a couple of useful videos explaining how educational psychology works.
Category: Psychology
Information on educational psychology
EPS Privacy Notice
Our Privacy Notice was published on the Falkirk Council site. This describes how we process data.
Published on the Improvement Hub
Education Scotland have just published the Action Enquiry projects for 2018/19 on the Improvement Hub. Falkirk EPS contributed with two papers as part of the Forth Valley and West Lothian Collaborative project:
- Bridging the Gaps in numeracy attainment, 2019, Balchin and McLafferty.
- Psychological factors in promoting numeracy, 2019, Balchin.
The full report is also available on this website.
New Children’s Rights Legislation
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh and University of Manchester have developed a short film to increase knowledge and awareness among parents and practitioners of new children’s rights legislation. The Education (Scotland) Act 2016 (commenced in January 2018) has provided children aged 12-15 years with Additional Support Needs (ASN) with independent rights regarding their education which are almost equivalent to those held by parents and young people, including the right to advice and information and to request particular types of assessment.
This short film incorporates the perspectives of education practitioners, children and young people with ASNs and various other organisations including the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland and the president of the ASN Tribunal for Scotland.
Please see the link to this short film.
Terrific Twos Guidance
With the government’s commitment to increase nursery places for two year olds, more two year olds than ever are being offered the opportunity to take up places in early childcare and education settings. Evidence suggests that that good quality childcare can reduce the poverty related attainment gap and have a significant benefit in terms of a child’s development. In order to ensure that our two year olds are receiving the best quality childcare, we need to think about what two year olds need and how they learn and develop. The following guide has been developed by Aberdeen City Educational Psychology Service:
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Harrow council have produced this booklet as part of their improving outcomes for two year olds agenda:
Enabling emotional, indoor and outdoor environment are considered here:
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Autism Prevalence Rates
Prevalence rates for Autism are 1.04% or are they? Scottish schools data indicates there are 2.2% of children with Additional Support Needs and Autistic Spectrum Disorder.
See the briefing by clicking the link.
Autism Prevalence Briefing – See it on Sway
Nick Balchin, Principal Educational Psychologist, Falkirk Council EPS
