Our Partners

Please contact Rosie Peskett: Partnership Manager – Hillingdon rpeskett@acs-schools.com
for more information or follow the link below.

Partnerships

Alastair Greig has been involved in Music Education for over 30 years. A Senior Fellow of the University of Roehampton, Associate Lecturer at UCL and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, his work focuses in on musical creativity: composition. Training teachers to understand how music works by breaking complex material down, demonstrating how children can explore this material and discover how to manipulate
sound for themselves.

He has worked with many schools on developing subject knowledge for teachers and how to apply this in their classrooms, contributed several chapters for educational books and organised a conference to develop how to establish sustainable links between composers and schools. He has run projects with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, the English Symphony Orchestra and continues as a Consultant in Primary Music.

alastairgreig.com

Sarah Billingham is a specialist speech and language teacher with a focus on emotional regulation. Her service, Confident Kids, equips parents, carers and practitioners with expert knowledge and the practical tools they need through training, coaching and group programmes.

Qualifying in 2004, she initially worked in mainstream primary education and went on to lead a specialist speech and language resource base. She worked as Assistant Headteacher at Speech and Language UK’s Meath School for five years and went on to lead their independent multidisciplinary assessment service until December 2021.

Sarah was a committee member of NAPLIC (National Association of Professionals Supporting Language and Communication Development) for five years. She is a Regional Makaton Tutor.

Training Sarah offers includes:
– Understanding and identifying Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN)

• Building Attention and Listening Skills
• Developing Vocabulary
• Phonological Awareness
• Using Blanks Levels of Questioning and Colourful Semantics to Support Language Development
• Supporting Pre-Verbal/ Minimally Verbal Children Using Alternative & Augmentative Communication (AAC)
• Understanding and Developing Self-Regulation for Pupils with SLCN
• Extending Language Through Play

https://www.confidentkids.co/

We provide training and support for primary and secondary D&T teachers in the UK and abroad. We provide face to face training, online and E-Learning courses that range from D&T curriculum planning, technical skills, and H&S Food accreditations.

https://www.designtechnology.org.uk

Helen offers training on the Outdoor Teaching and Learning Environment, Early Years Education (particularly planning, staffing, assessment) Playtime, Support Staff and managing behaviour. She delivers keynotes, offers workshops and in depth continuing professional development, ensuring that the training she delivers is bespoke. The session are practical and embedded in quality up to date theory. Helen is visiting schools regularly, talking to staff and taking photographs of children and adults in action and therefore always up to date.

Helen originally trained as a nursery/infant teacher and for the last 44 years has been researching, teaching, and disseminating about the outdoor teaching and learning environment for children. She has a local, national, and international reputation in early years outdoor education and has written and published numerous papers and research-led textbooks (routledge helenbilton) bringing practice and theory together for researchers and practitioners in the field.

She has a series on books out soon, about Child Development and Outdoor Learning. Helen believes in an holistic approach to education.

Additionally she is knowledgeable about health and education, managing behaviour and the role of the adult in schools, which has led to being the Lead Educator on several, successful FutureLearn online courses: Supporting successful learning in primary schools, Supporting successful learning in secondary schools, Teaching climate and sustainability in primary schools

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Karen Kirkpatrick is a Therapeutic Wellbeing Practitioner with over 18 years of experience working with children. She has experience as a Class Teacher and Senior Leader in Inner London Primary Schools. Karen currently works in education as a Behaviour and Wellbeing Consultant to help to improve outcomes for children and young people. She created Heartfelt Teaching as she is passionate about sharing important knowledge and practical skills which support and enable children’s mental health and emotional wellbeing.

Karen runs a training programme which focuses on developing the capacity for emotional regulation and conflict resolution. It provides staff with knowledge, practical skills and a reflective space to enable them to support themselves and their children. It incorporates: Neuroscience, Child Development, Attachment, ACE’s, Trauma, Attunement, Emotional Regulation and Conflict Resolution.

Karen has completed studies in:

• Therapeutic and Educational Application of the Arts
  Therapeutic Communications Skills for Children and Young People
  Therapeutic Wellbeing Practice for Children and Young People
  Compassionate Inquiry

These studies have informed the development of her approach to working within schools. She is informed by theoretical frameworks and key concepts from Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis, Self-Psychology, Neurobiology, Trauma and Attachment.

https://www.heartfeltteaching.com/

I have been involved in primary education for over thirty years both as a teacher and subject leader and in initial teacher education. I worked for many years at the University of Roehampton providing history education for both BA and PGCE students. I am a fellow of the Historical Association contributing to workshops, webinars and conference seminars. I write extensively for Primary History Journal. I am a co-author of Mastering Primary History and edited Teaching a Diverse Primary Curriculum (2022) and Teaching Climate Change and Continuity across the Primary Curriculum (2023).

I am passionate about the importance of providing a rigorous and challenging history education for children. I can provide support and advice for those looking to develop their own subject knowledge or to extend their curriculum provision. I can provide advice and support to subject leaders seeking to review their curriculum. The route to successful history teaching is through the empowerment of classroom teachers and so I can help teachers develop confidence in subject and pedagogical knowledge. I can suggest a range of practical enrichment activities and assist teachers in finding and using a variety of appropriate resources. I can provide support for those lost within the idea of golden threads or struggling to sort out substantive or disciplinary knowledge.

I am enthusiastic and excited by history, and I want you and your children to feel the same way about this fabulous subject.
For further information contact me on
Karin.Doull@outlook.com.

https://www.karindoullprimaryhistoryconsultancy.com/

Nigel Clemens is a highly experienced, secondary school leader with thirty-five years in education. He has spent over twenty years in senior roles, including eight as principal of a large standalone, secondary academy in West London. In September 2022, Nigel retired from this role and has since been working as an educational consultant.

Since then he has been commissioned by a wide range of trusts, local authorities and schools across London and the South West to lead bespoke school improvement work.

Nigel has expertise and wide-ranging experience in all aspects of school leadership development including for example, curriculum design and implementation, behaviour, safeguarding and developing overall quality of education.

He acts as a SIP, undertakes headteacher performance management, conducts bespoke audit and quality assurance projects, supports schools in challenging circumstances, and advises on all aspects of school development including leading on a school-to-school peer review programme and working with governors.

Nigel is an experienced and practising Ofsted inspector, across primary, secondary, special, and independent schools.

Primary Languages Network’s mission is to empower all teachers and schools to be able to establish effective “primary” focused foreign language teaching programmes. The company builds on the ethos and vast experience of its founder, Janet Lloyd.

In addition to Network memberships, currently over 1000 UK school strong, which offer a wide range of award-winning teaching resources, subject leadership support and CPD, PLN highly experienced experts offer primary languages related training including:

• Leadership in Primary Languages
• Creative Pedagogy in the primary languages classroom
• Introduction to primary languages for ITT or PGCE
• Bespoke courses
• We also support MATs and partnerships in leading networking sessions for language leads and teachers

Our trainers, Kate Percival and Joanne Eccleshare have wide experience in both primary foreign languages teaching and training having delivered sessions and contributed to national projects on behalf of Teaching Hubs, training partnerships, universities as well as organisations like NASBTT and ASCL on a range of topics including: Common misconception in primary foreign languages, Self-efficacy and KS2-KS3 Transition

https://primarylanguages.network/

Stacey is an enthusiastic adviser across a range of humanities subjects with over twenty years’ experience making a positive impact on the learning of pupils of all ages in a wide range of schools, including SEND, faith and PRUs, and across the spectrum of State, MAT and independent schools.

When working as a consultant, mentor, coach or as an Associate Deputy/Head Teacher, Stacey builds an excellent rapport with all stakeholders, from Directors of national organisations to school leaders, teachers and parents, and of course the pupils themselves.

Her subject specialism, positive relationships with peers, and recognition from several national organisations, means she is primed to work collaboratively in creating effective solutions, devising successful curricula and developing top quality teaching and learning in any school which go beyond Ofsted expectations and DFE standards.

She has written numerous materials spanning Early Years all the way up to Postgraduate level which support teachers, trainees, students and pupils, and regularly runs popular training for primary and secondary teachers across several London Boroughs in RE, RSE, history and geography.