Consultants

Richard Cummins
Richard has always been passionate about understanding how we learn. Together with Professor Burden of the University of Exeter he has developed an approach which is having a significant impact on the teaching of thinking in schools in the UK and abroad.

Nick Symes
Nick spent 27 years in teaching, 10 of those as a Deputy Headteacher in a large and thriving comprehensive before setting up his own very successful education consultancy.

Teresa Williams
Teresa is a former secondary Headteacher who maintained a career-long interest in both the creation of a relevant and enriching secondary curriculum and the development, for students, of transportable, personal skills.

Roger Sutcliffe
Roger taught at both primary and secondary level before helping to set up SAPERE, the Philosophy for Children charity, and becoming one of their leading trainers. He believes strongly in the need to balance the development of critical and creative thinking in the classroom with the development of caring and collaborative thinking. 

Fiona Knapp
Fiona is a freelance educational consultant who has been involved with primary education for more than thirty years. She is passionate about children’s learning, and has had extensive experience in large and small schools, in rural and urban areas and has taught overseas.

Martin Bell
Martin is Head of a large primary, accredited as a Thinking School in 2008.

Bernadette Hancock
Bernadette Hancock has over thirty five years experience in education, having taught in a wide variety of primary and middle schools in England and Wales. Her approach to teaching, learning and school leadership has been creative, innovative and has consistently led to the raising of standards.

Ron Piper
Ron is an Assistant Headteacher at The Ridgeway School in Swindon and is a qualified NLP Master Practitioner and youth coach . His workshops have been hailed as outstanding and Ron is now in demand from schools across the country.

Nanette Paine
Nanette has worked in most sectors of education – primary, middle, secondary and further education and until July 2005 was headteacher of a highly successful primary school in Hemel Hempstead.

Damian Groark
Damian is a serving Headteacher, is in his second headship, and has just returned from a secondment at another primary school. Over the last twenty years he has taught at a wide range of schools and been a head since 2001.