Evidence-based ELSA and MeLSA training and supervision for schools, delivered by Educational Psychologists.

Our ELSA and MeLSA training and supervision offers are informed by adult learning theories and implementation science to ensure the highest levels of impact for individual staff and organisations.

We offer effective implementation services, including project work, consultation, supervision, and follow-up sessions. This is to ensure that the services we deliver are embedded and utilised to maximise the impact on children and young people in your school.

As scientist-practitioners, we pride ourselves on delivering training content and supervision supported by evidence, research and scientific principles.

This gives schools and their staff confidence in the services they receive whilst allowing us to build transparent and trusting relationships with: senior leaders, teachers, learning support assistants, and parents.

The ELSA (Emotional Literacy Support Assistant) intervention is designed to build schools' capacity to support their pupils' emotional needs using their own resources. This is achieved by training learning support assistants to develop and deliver individualised support programmes to meet the emotional needs of children and teenagers in their settings. 

The programme includes six days of online training, which covers a range of areas, such as emotional literacy, attachment and belonging, resilience and self-esteem, emotional regulation, grief and loss, and positive psychology approaches. 

ELSA is an evidence-based intervention, as research continues to demonstrate the impact of the ELSA programme, highlighting positive outcomes for pupils in improving their emotional wellbeing, attainment, attendance and adaptive behaviours.

Mediated Learning Support Approach (MeLSA) is an evidence-based framework for supporting the learning of individual learners and groups. 

School staff trained in the mediated learning approach become MeLSA coaches and are trained to design, deliver and evaluate individual, small-group and whole-school interventions to facilitate accelerated progress in struggling learners whilst developing learner independence. The MeLSA course was designed by several educational psychologist, each with an area of specialism in the topics covered.

Our online MeLSA course is delivered by experienced and specialist educational psychologists - Dr Alicja Jedrzejewska, Dr Louisa Reynolds, and Dr Shahid Khan. The MeLSA course is suitable for staff working in primary, secondary, specialist and mainstream schools.