Profiles

Specialisms: Leadership, Mentoring and Facilitation

Areas of Expertise:

• Senior Leadership
• Facilitator for NPQML
• Modern Foreign Language GCSE

Patricia is committed to improving the outcomes of the students in her community and believes that a similar commitment to investing in and developing teachers can have the greatest impact.

Experience:

• Assistant Headteacher since 2017, leading on Pupil Premium and Pupil Progress;
• Lead for 4 curriculum areas;
• Faciliator for the NPQML course;
• A classroom practionioner for over 20 years working in all key stages;
• Head of MFL for 4 years with a history of excellent results;
• Edexcel GCSE Examiner for 4 years;
• SSAT trainer for MFL.

SLE Specialisms: DT, Food prep, coaching and mentoring

Areas of Expertise:

• Food prep subject lead
• Curriculum planning
• Classroom pedagogy
• Coaching and mentoring
• Cross-curricular pedagogy in practical subjects (PE, DT)

Gill has over 15 years’ experience delivering practical subjects and is currently subject leader for Food and Nutrition. She has also been a Head of PE. She has planned and delivered programmes of study which have allowed students of all abilities to achieve excellent results at GCSE and A’Level. Gill also has an extensive portfolio of exam board assessment work which has allowed her to offer in depth insight into the assessment process allowing for coherent planning.

Gill is an ITT mentor and is currently involved with recruiting and training ITT trainees as well as coaching more exerienced teachers.

Experience:

• Leading and managing members of staff that come from a range of experience for 4+ years.
• Logical and coherent curriculum design for Year 7 to 11 in DT and PE.
• Producing highly engaging, fully resourced lessons which are accesible to all staff in the faculty.
• Effective assessment mapping to monitor progress.
• Visiting other departments, observe teaching, review schemes of work and diagnosing the next steps to improve the quality of education.

SLE Specialisms: History

Areas of Expertise:

• History Subject Lead
• Curriculum Design
• Initial Teacher Education in History

Marc has an unwavering commitment to history for all. He believes students deserve to be inspired and challenged by the past. Years of experience have taught him that engagement and access do not have to be defined by the context of the school, or the abilities of students.

Experience:

• Being a full time classroom practitioner for 11+ years.
• Leading and managing members of staff that come from a range of experience for 4+ years.
• Implementing assessment and progression models that triangulate subject specific literature, with age-related mile-stones and school wide reporting systems.
• Curriculum design that maps out disciplinary and substantive objectives from Year 7 to 11.
• Publishing highly engaging, fully resourced lessons.
• Delivering subject specific CDP courses; including speaking at national and international conferences.
• Visiting other departments, observe teaching, review schemes of work and diagnose the next steps to improve the quality of education.
• Mentoring 13+ beginner teachers with a range of needs and start points.
• Tutoring over 25+ beginner teacher for the University of Sussex, at Masters Level.
• Delivering the Outstanding Teacher Programme and coaching primary and secondary teachers.

SLE Specialisms: Physical Education

Area of Expertise:

• Physical Education Subject Lead

Nicola is an experienced and highly committed Curriculum Leader in PE. She believes in engagement for all students by designing a curriculum and programme that motivates them to be successful and enjoy sport. She also strongly believes in the development of staff in PE and has supported consistency of all Curriculum Leaders.

Experience:

• Being a full time classroom practitioner for 11+ years.
• Leading and managing members of staff that come from a range of experience for 8+ years.
• Implementing assessment strategies at both KS3 and KS4.
• Curriculum design for Year 7 to 11, including GCSE, BTEC, VCERT and Cambridge Nationals qualifications.
• Producing Units of study to progress all students.
• Analysing and using data to support intervention work with students of all abilities.
• Successfully winning a bid with Sport England and implementing a project for schools within our TSA.
• Delivering subject specific CDP courses.
• Mentoring of trainee teachers.
• Designing and delivering CPD sessions for Curriculum Leaders.
• Delivering the Outstanding Teacher Programme and coaching primary and secondary teachers.

Specialisms: Science

Areas of Expertise:

• Assistant curriculum leader for science
• Curriculum planning
• Classroom pedagogy
• I am Assistant Curriculum Leader for science, with responsibility for key stage 3. I have experience in curriculum design and analysing data to inform departmental and individual planning.  After training as a middle years teacher I have a particular interest in transition and bridging the gaps between different education phases, within and across schools. I really enjoy supporting other teachers, initially working with ITT students or informal coaching of colleagues. I am delighted to be involved in facilitating the OTP here at Priory. 

Experience:

• Leading members of staff that come from a range of experience for 6+ years.
• Logical and coherent curriculum design for Year 7 to 9 in Science.
• Producing highly engaging, fully resourced lessons which are accesible to all staff in the faculty.
• Coordinating members of staff in the production of departmental resources.
• Effective assessment mapping to monitor progress.

Tristan Roberts SLE and OTP Course Tutor

 SLE Specialism: Maths

Areas of Expertise:           

• Real life maths
• Literacy in maths
• Teaching resources
• Planning and SOW
• Careers in maths

Tristan has been teaching secondary maths for 8 years and he is passionate about his subject. He is committed to improving his own practice and spends a lot of time creating inspiring resources and lessons which look at real world problems. He finds ways of making mathematics accessible and engaging for all.

Experience:

• Full-time teacher of maths for 8 years
• Deputy-Curriculum Leader of maths for 4 years including acting Head of Curriculum for 1 year
• SOW and CPD development (both department, whole school and with feeder schools)
• OTP course leader