Ron is an Assistant Headteacher at The Ridgeway School in Swindon and is a qualified NLP Practitioner and youth coach . His workshops have been hailed as outstanding and Ron is now in demand from schools across the country.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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. She was a Headteacher for thirteen years, leading three very diverse and successful schools in South Derbyshire, Derby City and South Suffolk.
Fiona now works with schools across the UK and internationally leading a wide range of training in developing children’s learning and thinking. She is an accredited trainer in David Hyerle’s Thinking Maps, Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats® and CoRT1 Tools and Art Costa and Bena Kallick’s Habits of Mind. Fiona is also an accredited trainer for Write from the Beginning, the widely acclaimed Thinking Maps programme which helps develop writing. She has experience of training whole clusters or pyramids of schools, whole school staff at both and Primary and Secondary level, Senior Leadership Teams and Advisory staff, and has led and spoken at Headteacher Conferences. She is committed to maintaining links with the classroom, and offers a ‘theory into practice’ training approach, modelling a range of thinking skills and strategies with real children in real classrooms!
Fiona’s other work includes working as an Associate Trainer for the International Primary Curriculum, and she has led a range of training in IPC schools in the UK and abroad, and at the Summer School at the University of Greenwich. She has a flair for ICT and delivers training in schools across East Anglia for Espresso Education. Fiona also leads training for children’s workers within the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich with a focus on children’s spiritual development. She contributed to a book of Reflective Stories to support the Suffolk RE Agreed Syllabus, and is a Godly Play trainer and storyteller, working with adults and children in churches and schools across Suffolk.