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Literacy and Numeracy Inclusion Advisor
Janet Goring has taught for over twenty years as a class teacher, maths subject leader, Advanced Skills teacher and most recently as a specialist teacher for pupils with specific learning difficulties. She has a Masters in Specific Learning Difficulties, specialising in Dyslexia and Maths difficulties. Her dissertation researched how playing a board game can increase number sense, following a career-long interest in using games to develop understanding and increase enjoyment in maths.
Janet is an accredited Professional Development lead for the NCETM and has led SEND work groups for the last six years in her local Maths Hub. The two current projects are looking at an approach to Maths Anxiety using Zones of regulation for mainstream schools and a smaller steps curriculum for special schools. She is also on the Dyscalculia committee of the British Dyslexia Association.
Assistant Maths Hub Lead – Primary
Kate is the Primary Mastery Lead for the Hub and is also the Strategic Maths Lead for GLF Schools Multi Academy Trust. She is passionate about teacher professional development in mathematics, believing that this is the key to improving teaching and learning. Having led work groups for the Maths Hub, she continues to be inspired by the teachers and leaders who are transforming mathematics practice and policy in their schools for the benefit of all of their pupils. She is a co-author of the NCETM Curriculum Prioritisation Materials and is a Professional Development Lead.
Maths Hub Lead – Primary
Nicki is one of our Maths Hubs Leads, having been involved in the leadership team since the very beginning and as Primary Mastery Lead and Work Group Lead. She is based at one of the hub’s lead schools, Chesterton School, where she also oversees CPD Partnerships for the Wandle Teaching School Hub.
Nicki has 20 years’ experience as a consultant in supporting, developing and training teachers in their maths classroom practice. She loves working with fantastic and inspiring colleagues in the Maths Hub!
Assistant Director for School and Professional Development
Matt has worked at secondary school and cross-phase at local authority level, and now works as an assistant director in the school and professional development strand, with a focus on local leaders of mathematics education (LLME).
School Improvement Lead (Greenshaw Learning Trust)
Rhiannon Rainbow is a maths teacher with 20 years’ experience teaching secondary. Rhiannon completed a 3 year BSc Hons QTS Primary Maths EY before moving to secondary. She is an NCETM accredited SMS, C5, and PD Lead and part of the NCETM MAT Maths Leads delivery team. She also is an LLME in her local Maths Hub and runs the secondary SKTM.
The Sutton Trust have issued a report on the current inequalities within early years education and the potential lack of impact and damage to the sector from the new free hours of childcare funded by the government.
- mental health
- SEMH
New data released on Time to Talk Day (1 February) highlights the extent to which young people are avoiding speaking about their mental health - and how older people are embracing the importance of speaking up.
- Sector News
Following a review, the government has announced changes to the initial teacher training frameworks. The changes come in response to the sector responses and the review findings.
- Sector News
The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGSCO) has warned that the shortage of educational psychologists is having a significant impact on councils’ ability to set out the needs of learners with SEND.
- Online Units
- Universal SEND Services
- Sector News
We are delighted to share that 2 free-to-access online CPD units have been launched by Whole School SEND and Real Group as part of the Universal Services programme.
- Sector News
The Department for Education has announced the providers who have been approved to deliver the new SENCO National Professional Qualification (NPQ). The new mandatory qualification will have it’s first delivery from September 2024.
EE, longstanding partner of the EE BAFTA Film Awards, is today launching a new campaign called, ‘The Stage is Yours’, which delves into the mindset of secondary school children, shining a light on the importance of drama.
Reunite Families UK is a charity supporting children, couples and families impacted by the UK’s spouse and partner migration rules. Many families face separation due to the rules, often long-term and sometimes permanent.
- PfAEY
- PfA,
September 2024
As educators, we’re constantly striving to prepare the young people we work with for their next steps – from the earliest years in nursery or primary school all the way through to the final days in further or higher education.
National Children’s Day UK (Sunday 12th May) provides a wonderful opportunity for everyone to share all the great work that they are doing to protect the wellbeing of children and families.
- PfAEY
- PfA,
Their future is in our hands: how educators can help light the way to brighter futures for their learners.
An investigation by Schoolsweek has found that complaints to the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGSCO) have nearly tripled over the past five years, from 509 in 2018-19 to 1,435 so far this financial year.
- nasen
In January, nasen embarked on a journey to enhance its member feedback processes, aiming to gather higher-quality insights to improve the overall member experience.
The latest figures on absence rates have been published by the Department for Education showing absence for the first half of the 2023-24 academic year.
- ofsted
The Big Listen consultation, published online today, asks a series of questions to help shape the conversation and provide a sense of direction for the changes Ofsted could make.