Specialist Leaders in Education
Specialist leaders of education (SLEs) are outstanding middle and senior leaders with a particular area of expertise and the skills to develop the leadership capacity of colleagues in similar positions in other schools.
- Standards lead for Mathematics for Wimborne Academy Trust
- Head of Mathematics
- Year 6 Maths and English teacher
- Year 8 Maths teacher
- Data analysis
- Use of pictorial representations to develop conceptual understanding
- Use of AfL
- Curriculum
- Developing use of AfL to ensure support and challenge are provided as appropriate
- Use of pictorial representations to develop understanding of fractions, decimals and percentages
- Use of question level analysis to support medium term planning
- Use of data analysis to ensure school priorities are addressed through intervention
- Led moderation sessions
- Reception class teacher and Early Years leader.
- SENCO
- Senior Leader
- Objective led planning
- Early Years Provision – continuous and enhanced
- Early Years environment
- Moderation
- Use of data to assess impact
- Staff team work to take on changes
- Provision mapping
- Outcomes based approach
- Continuous provision in action
- County moderation of EYFS Profile
- Using objective led planning
- SENCO organisation and making data and analysis useful
- Deputy Head
- English
- Year 6
- I lead twilight training to disseminate leadership practice to senior and middle leaders.
- I lead less formal meetings with middle leaders of other schools on a one to one basis, giving advice and explain our systems.
- Led Local Authority conference workshops, including Deputy Heads Conference (21/1/16).
- Led moderation meetings for English and Maths for the Chesil Partnership (15 schools).
- Working with Mildown Primary, looking at the deputy Head role and English.
- Assistant Headteacher
- Raising standards – Whole school
- School performance measures
- RaiseOnline secondary
- Ofsted
- Science curriculum
- Science T&L
- Raising standards in Science
- Leadership in Science
- Whole school assessment policy
- Maths leadership
- AfL
- Assessment CPD
- Encouraging student dialogue in assessment
- Wimborne Multi Academy Trust
- Leading a team of Senior Leaders to design and implement a replacement for national curriculum levels
- Bishop of Winchester School
- INSET delivered to NQTs on assessment.
- Supporting leadership of Mathematics at a local secondary school
- Supporting senior team with line management and raising standards in Mathematics at a local secondary school
- English
- Curriculum development
- Team leader for Bournemouth and Poole writing moderation team.
- Host for writing moderation meetings with other Bournemouth and Poole schools.
- Collaboration with Deputies and Assistant Heads within the Bournemouth Septenary Trust.
- Raising standards in maths
- Mixed ability teaching in maths
- Maths provision for key groups of students
- Teacher training for maths
- T&L development for maths
- Coaching
- Pedagogy in Maths
- Developed and implementation of RQT progr?amme
- Wimborne Multi Academy Trust
- Supporting improving T&L in maths at a local secondary school
- Supporting NQT provision at a secondary school
- Current
- Acting Assistant Headteacher – Raising Standards
- Head of House
- Head of A-Level PE
- Junior Athlete Education Programme Coordinator (JAE)
- Whole school MAGT Lead Practitioner
- Whole school support/provision for the most able (MAGT)
- Supporting Senior Leaders and middle leaders
- Raising Standards provision
- Trainee/NQT/Staff CPD and inset
- Physical Education – Curriculum and Examination
- Supporting Heads of Department and Subject/Key Stage Leads/Coordinators
- Auditing and action planning
- Wimborne Teaching School
- Wimborne feeder/pyramid school
- Thomas Hardy’s School
- Purbeck School
- The Bishop of Winchester School
- Bournemouth School for Boys
- The LEAF Academy
- Wey Valley School
- Tewksbury School
- Barton Peverill College
- IT Co-ordinator
- Yr5 Teacher
- CAS Master Teacher
- Managing and delivering the new national curriculum in computing
- Planning and assessing computing
- Developing E-safety policy
- Middle management
- CAS and Bath University supporting computing in primary schools across the South West
- CPD session on using iPads to teach the new Computing curriculum
- CPD session on meeting the needs of the new Computing curriculum
- CPD session to support teachers who have little to no experience in delivering Computing
- Supporting a number of middle schools in Dorset with assessment, planning and resources
- Giving advice to the use of tablets within schools
- Assistant headteacher
- KS2 leader
- mathematics subject leader
- computing subject leader
- TT mentor
- year 4 class teacher
- Lower key stage 2 (year 3 and 4) mathematics
- Growth mindset in mathematics
- Concrete, Pictorial and Abstract approach to mathematics
- Higher order questioning for mathematics
- Deeper mastery in mathematics
- Inspiring and engaging ways to teach mathematics
- Mentoring
- School support focusing on planning and lesson delivery
- Facilitator for Numicon (SEN focus) development sessions
- Delivered two multi school INSED days looking at ways to teacher the four operations
- Mathematics curriculum training delivered to parents and carers
- Worked with local schools to create a written calculations policy
- Part of the Wimborne mathematics pyramid
- St Michael’s Middle School- Former Chair of Governors
- Strategic Leadership
- Multi-Academy Trust Conversion
- Headteacher recruitment
- Headteacher Pay & Performance Reviews
- Governor Recruitment
- Governor Training & Development
- Wimborne Academy Trust
- St Michael’s Middle School
- Merley First School
- Witchampton First School
- St Nicholas and St Laurence CE Primary School, Weymouth
- Interventions teacher and Pupil Premium Champion
- Data tracking and analysis
- Provision planning and analysis
- Researching strategies for good practice with PP
- Liaising with other staff regarding PP children
- Emotional welfare
- PP children’s voice
- Thrive
- Provision audit
- Improvement planning / continuous development
- PP Hub with two local schools
- Sharing good practice at twilights
- Sharing good practice with visiting teachers from other local schools
- Reception Class Teacher and Lead
- Literacy Lead
- Foundation Stage Pedagogy
- Literacy
- Phonics
- Pupil Premium Reviewer
- Leading a project to develop the skills of Foundation Stage practitioners across 26 pre-schools and schools with a focus on vulnerable groups.
- Supporting a three form entry school to develop their Foundation Stage Practise moving them from a grading of RI to Outstanding in their most recent inspection.
- Supporting a Foundation Stage NQT in a one form entry school.
- Training several schools in delivering systematic synthetic phonics in Reception, Key Stage One and Key Stage Two.
- Muscliff Primary School
- Maths Lead
- Y6 teacher
- Primary Mastery Maths Specialist for the Jurassic Maths Hub & NCETM
- Bar Modelling & visual representation
- Maths Policy development
- Coaching & mentoring
- Mastery pedagogy
- Data analysis
- Leading a team of maths specialists developing guidance for the moderation of textbook materials at Key Stage 1
- Delivered INSET for local school with Algebra & Multiplicative Reasoning
- Travelled to Shanghai as part of the UK-China teacher exchange
- Delivered INSETs for local school on Bar Modelling
- Developed Bar Modelling Policy in collaboration with professionals
- Team-teaching
- Head of School
- Maths - Curriculum
- Maths - Manipulating resources
- RE
- Church School Distinctiveness
- Head of School at St John’s First School
- Singapore Textbook Project lead for Jurassic Maths Hub using Maths- No Problem!
- Facilited Numicon in KS2 training with Lesson Study
- Joint strategic lead for Dorset Maths Matters- supporting pyramids across Dorset to develop subject specific expertise (2014/15)
- Facilitated the Olevi Improving Teacher Programme (ITP) and Outstanding Teacher Programme (OTP) improving teaching and learning
- Maths Inset delivered to school group and pyramid group of schools (EYFS- Yr6)
- Maths curriculum training delivered to Parents and Carers
- Supported two primary teachers with planning, teaching and assessment over half a term to develop skills and knowledge
- Lead the Wimborne Maths pyramid
- Supported a school to prepare for SIAMS inspection (outstanding Grade awarded)
- NQT induction support across Dorset
- Inclusion and provision
- Student focussed solutions
- Data Analysis
- Teaching and Learning Strategies for Inclusion
- Pastoral Systems and Approaches
- Mental Health Approaches
- Behaviour Management
- Staff Professional Development.
- Maths Coordinator
- Computing Coordinator
- Year 2 teacher, previously Year 4 teacher.
- Teaching experience across the Primary age range.
- Developing a Primary Maths Curriculum to match the New Curriculum
- Developing a Maths Calculations Policy/ Teaching & Assessing Document
- Assessing Maths without levels to match the New Curriculum
- Teaching & Learning - Primary Maths in the New Curriculum
- Developing Maths Leadership in the Primary School
- Maths Mastery: Using a variety of resources
- Developing Independent Learners through PDR (Plan, Do, Review) & PBL (Problem Based Learning) – a whole school approach
- Worked as a Maths Lead for Saturn Trust: Raising Standards in the New Maths Curriculum across Key Stage 1 & 2
- Worked with teachers across Dorset to develop and share maths ideas: Using Numicon in Key Stage 1
- Worked with Allenbourn Middle School & Sturminster Marshall First School to develop a whole school/cluster approach to Written Calculations
- Worked with Heads and Teachers in Oxford to develop Independent Learning in their schools
- Ongoing meetings with local schools for 'Maths Matters' meetings discussing current issues in Maths
- Curriculum
- Assessment / Moderation
- CPD
- Working with Lead Moderator to deliver assessment / moderation CPD in borough of Bournemouth – 2015/2016
- Cross-school moderation & assessment CPD events within Bournemouth 2015/2016
- English & Y6 Lead, St Michael’s Primary School 2014-2016
- KS2 Moderator, Borough of Bournemouth
- Teaching and learning development
- Pedagogy in Science
- Subject leadership
- Science curriculum development
- Whole school teaching and Learning (Secondary school as Assistant Head Teacher)
- Whole school CPD co-ordination
- Subject leader development (Secondary and Primary as LA Adviser)
- Professional mentor - PGCE / School Direct trainees / NQTs
- Lead Practitioner for Maths
- KS3 and KS4 Maths Development
- Pedagogy in Maths
- Developing and Improving teaching and learning in maths.
- Wimborne Academy Trust
- Academy conversion
- Financial accounting (Chartered Accountant: ACA 2004, FCA 2014)
- Management accounting and reporting
- Risk and assurance management
- Treasury management (ACT Certificate in Treasury Management - Public Finance, 2011)
- Procurement
- Regulatory compliance (Advanced Diploma in School Business Management, 2014)
- Strategic business planning
- Facilities and H&S management (Health and Safety for School Business Managers - IOSH Accredited, 2015)
- Capital bids and project management
- Governance
- Business and Finance Director, Ringwood School, 2011-2015
- Financial management support to Bransgore Primary School, 2012-2015
- Academy conversion and initial financial management support to Milford-on-Sea Primary School, 2013
- Delivered SBM sessions for QTL NPQML, NPQSL, NPQH courses, 2013-2015
- Initiated and facilitated SPELL Teaching School Finance and Administration Group meetings, 2013-2015
Alister Barker - SLE Specialism: Mathematics
School and Job Role:
St Michael's Middle School in Colehill
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Recent examples of work with other schools:
Amy Wright - Higher ability students; Post 16 English – curriculum design, teaching and learning; Curriculum enrichment and creative skills in English.
Amy began her career in Education working in inner city academies in Plymouth and Bristol. During her two years in Bristol she also undertook a Masters in Education, which was then completed following a move to Dorset to teach in a mixed comprehensive upper school. Her masters thesis focused on supporting high ability students within the classroom, and she went on to become the High Performance Coordinator for the school. She has a particular focus on raising aspirations and within-classroom support.
During her four years in Dorset she has completed the Prince’s Trust Award three times, focusing on enrichment and challenge within the English curriculum. Amy has led staff training for three years, focusing on high ability students within the classroom and building independence in Post 16 students.
Amy led curriculum design and training for the new A Level curriculums in English, working in partnership with other local schools to develop an innovative and exciting curriculum. She has completed two Leadership training courses on effective middle leadership and school-to-school support, and various training courses within her specialisms.
Angela Puddick - SLE specialism: Early Years and SENCO
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Areas of expertise:
Early Years:
SEN
Recent examples of work with other schools:
Angie Lineton - SLE specialism: Deputy Head Teacher, Literacy Lead, Year 6
School and Job Role:
I have been a senior leader or Deputy Head at St. Nicholas and St. Laurence Primary School for many years. In addition, I taught Year 6 pupils for thirty years and lead English for many of those. Any one child has only one opportunity in each year group – it has to be right every year throughout the school. My aim is to give every pupil a chance in life, not just in English and Maths, it’s about them being confident, conscientious and resilient, developing an ‘open mind-set’ that enables them to become great learners.
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Recent examples of work with other schools (bullet points):
Antonia Dufek - Behaviour management; PE curriculum and leadership; Teaching and Learning
School and Job Role: Allenbourn Middle School – Head of Year and Head of PE
Areas of expertise:
· - Behaviour management/discipline
· - PE Curriculum
· - Teaching and learning
· - PE leadership
Recent examples of work within own and other schools:
· - Setting up/monitoring behaviour management systems
· - Classroom management guidance
· - - Working with other PE leads to deliver assessment and moderation
· Development of NQTs within subject area
Brian Boyes - Specialism: Science; Maths; Whole school assessment
School and Job Role: Queen Elizabeth’s School, Wimborne
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Recent examples of work with other schools
Caroline Boyes - SLE Specialism: English, Curriculum Leadership
School and Job Role:
St Michael’s CE Primary School, Bournemouth.
Assistant Head Teacher
Key Stage 2 Lead
English Lead
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Charlotte Larrington-Vandy - SLE specialism: Mathematics
School and Job Role: Lead Practitioner of Mathematics at Queen Elizabeth’s School
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Request for School to School Support for Charlotte Larrington-Vandy
Chris Buller - SLE Specialism: Whole School Support/Provision for the Most Able (MAGT), Whole School Raising Standards Provision & Student Progress, KS4/KS5 Assessment Physical Education
School and Job Role: Queen Elizabeth’s School, Wimborne
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Christopher Daw - SLE specialism: KS1 – KS3 Computing
School and Job Role: Allenbourn Middle School, Wimborne
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David Graves - Specialism: Mathematics
School and Job Role: Merley First School.
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Edward Bell - SLE specialism: National Leader of Governance
School and Job Role: Wimborne Academy Trust : Former Chair of Trustees
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Jacqui Clark - SLE specialism: Pupil Premium
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Jo Hancock - SLE specialism: Early Years Teacher; Literacy; Pupil Premium Reviewer
School and Job Role: Witchampton CE First School, Headteacher
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Joe Jackson-Taylor - Primary Mathematics with KS2 Specialism
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Katharine Anstey - SLE Specialism: Maths; RE; Church School Distinctiveness
School and Job Role: St John’s First School, Wimborne
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Kim Ashby - Inclusion, Pupil Premium
Kim Ashby
Kim Ashby begun her career working at a public school in Shropshire, becoming at Assistant Head of House with fifty three boarding girls. Two years later she joined a school in special measures as a year Head at a West Midland school in Dudley. Through creative pastoral developments, Kim became a Head of House and the school became part of the NCTL program.
In recent years, Kim has worked in a rural middle school as a Head of Year and Head of department, before transferring to her current school – Queen Elizabeth School Wimborne, where she is the Head of Inclusion and Senco.
She has supported local schools with the delivery of Pupil Premium provision and analysing impact of intervention. Future developments and ways of using strategies to promote progress and achievement whilst working within a team environment.
Areas of Expertise.
Pupil Premium
Student focused solutions.
Data Analysis
Teaching and learning Strategies
Pupil premium Strategy Statement
Inclusion and provision
Staff Professional Development
Pastoral Systems and Approaches.
Laura Howieson - Inclusion and Provision
Laura Howieson began her career in a middle school in a deprived area of Salisbury as English and Drama lead. During her NQT year she undertook SENDCo training with the University of Winchester and lead the SEND department from her second year.
More recently, Laura has worked within a secondary school; as an English lead for a Middle School; in a primary school, initially with a year 3 class but also with days in reception and as a class teacher and English Lead in an alternative provision for children with what was then classed as BESD. Through this, she has developed many skills and strategies for positive behaviour management which has prompted her to be trained in many different methods including the PACE approach and Lee Canter’s model.
Laura is now Leader for Pupil Wellbeing at St Michael’s Middle School and Inclusion Standards lead for Wimborne Academy Trust.
She has supported local schools with the delivery of effective SEND provision and using evidence as a tool for positive change. She has also supported the setting up and continuation of pastoral provision which allows a SENDCo to address a child’s needs in a more holistic way encompassing safeguarding, mental health and academic achievement.
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Louise Freir - SLE Specialism: Maths (Primary); Independent Learning (Primary)
School and Job Role: Henbury View First School, Corfe Mullen
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Matt Golding - SLE Specialism: English
School and Job Role: Allenbourn Middle School – Assistant Headteacher and Head of English
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Paul Andrews - SLE Specialism: Science
School and Job Role: Deputy Head Teacher
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Richard Wright - KS2 History and PSHE
Based at Allenbourn Middle School, Wimborne
Head of Year 5
Transition coordinator
Head of KS2 History & PSHE
Areas of expertise:
NQT support, mentoring and induction
ITT
Discipline and Behaviour Management
History KS2
Recent examples of work with other schools:
Training for NQTs in locality
History Curriculum KS2
Transition work with First Schools
Robert Hardy - SLE Specialism: Mathematics
School and Job Role: Queen Elizabeth’s School, Wimborne
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Ross Bowell - SLE Specialism: School back office operations and financial management
School and Job Role: Business Director
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