Workshops |
| | Commitment | Description | Cost | Delivery | Minimum delegates |
| Anxiety and Depression Workshop | 2.5 hour workshop | Aims to provide an understanding of the biological and theoretical underpinnings of anxiety and depression. Attendees will gain an understanding of the way anxiety and depression present themselves in children. Strategies and interventions to support children and parents will be explored to prevent escalation and increase wellbeing. | Partner School: £150 Non Partner School: £175 | Assistant Psychologist Team | Whole school |
| Anxiety Workshop | 2.5 hour workshop *Enquire if a recorded video is required/preferred if you are unable to attend face-to-face training | Symptoms of anxiety in children within primary schools was on the rise before COVID-19, and since the virus has been a common feeling amongst children, young people and adults. This workshop will ensure attendees have an understanding of the biological and theoretical underpinnings of anxiety. Attendees will gain an understanding of the way anxiety presents themselves in children. Ideas on how to improve children’s self-awareness and techniques for self-regulation will be discussed. Strategies and interventions to support children who are experiencing symptoms will be shared to prevent escalation and reduce anxiety, including activities to use for individual children, targeted groups and whole class. Strategies and support for working with parents will also be discussed. | Partner School: £150 Non Partner School: £175 | Assistant Psychologist Team | Whole school |
| Relationships and the Power of Language Workshop | 2.5 hour workshop | Positive relationships are fundamentally important for a child’s development and reaching their full potential. Workshop attendees will gain an understanding of the importance of relationships, the psychological underpinnings of relationship development and the factors that impact the quality of relationship formation. Attendees will have a framework for assessing the nature of relationships and techniques to build connectivity. Language and communication will be explored to facilitate relationship development. Delegates will gain an understanding of how important our language use is, and how to incorporate techniques into practise with the use of a communication toolkit. Delegates will also receive a parent toolkit to support the development of relationships at home. | Partner School: £150 Non Partner School: £175 | Assistant Psychologist Team | Whole school |
| Executive Functioning Workshop | 2.5 hour workshop *Enquire if a recorded video is required/preferred if you are unable to attend face-to-face training | Executive functions (EFs) are a set of cognitive processes that are necessary for the cognitive control of behaviour. The workshop will explore the key EF skills, including cognitive flexibility, inhibitory control and working memory. The significance and importance of these skills in building the foundations of a child’s learning will be discussed, along with different activities which can support the development of these skills across different ages. | Partner School: £150 Non Partner School: £175 | Assistant Psychologist Team | Whole school |
| Supporting Literacy Difficulties and Dyslexia | 2 hour workshop | This workshop will explore literacy difficulties and how to recognise them and explore what is Dyslexia. This workshop will help delegates understand dyslexia-friendly approaches, interventions for literacy difficulties and how to use them effectively. | Partner School: £150 Non Partner School: £175 | Assistant Psychologist Team | Whole school |
| Sensory Processing Workshop | 2.5 hour workshop | Aims to provide a basic understanding of sensory processing, the different types of senses and how this can facilitate children’s learning, but also be a barrier for some. The challenges of sensory processing will be explored. Ideas will be explored to support sensory processing on a whole-class and target child level. | Partner School: £150 Non Partner School: £175 | Assistant Psychologist Team | Whole school |
Resilience Workshop | 2.5 hour workshop *Enquire if a recorded video is required/preferred if you are unable to attend face-to-face training | In order for children to thrive they need resiliency. Resilience is the ability to cope with and rise to the inevitable challenges, problems and setbacks you meet in the course of your life and come back stronger from them. Workshop attendees will gain an understanding of the psychological underpinnings of resiliency and be given a framework for resiliency development. The workshop will focus on ways to enhance a child’s capacity for resilience and provide strategies to help children develop the skills needed to cope, recover form challenges and develop strengths to be prepared for future challenges | Partner School: £150 Non Partner School: £175 | Assistant Psychologist Team | Whole school |
| Self-Efficacy; The impact on children’s learning and staff resilience and wellbeing | 2.5 hour workshop *Enquire if a recorded video is required/preferred if you are unable to attend face-to-face training | Self-efficacy is the belief that you are capable of performing a task or managing a situation. A person with high self-efficacy believes they have the skills to help them steer through life and reach their goals. Self-efficacy is about learning how to persevere during a challenge or setback, making it an important part of resilience. Workshop attendees will understand what self-efficacy is and its importance in relation to: child engagement and outcomes in learning, emotional resilience and overall wellbeing. Attendees will also have a deeper understanding of adult resilience and wellbeing. Delegates will receive strategies ideas and guidance to support and promote child and adult self-efficacy. | Partner School: £150 Non Partner School: £175 | Assistant Psychologist Team | Whole school |
| Bespoke Twilight Workshops | 2.5 hour workshop | Bespoke twilight sessions can be available with class teachers/ teaching assistants. Please contact us to request a bespoke workshop | On request | On request | Whole school |
