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Alison Gormally |
Alison Gormally is the Director of Leadership Ltd, which is an education consultancy specialising in School Improvement, Systems Leadership, and Workload and Wellbeing. |
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Alison Rostron |
Alison Rostron is currently the headteacher of Thelwall Community Infant School and has been in post since January 2013. |
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Allan Torr |
Allan is from a small, former mining town in Derbyshire, and would in modern times have been Pupil Premium. He was the first in the family to go into higher education. He gained a B.Ed (hons) and a Master of Arts in Education (management). |
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Anne Gadsden |
Before becoming an independent consultant for ECM Anne has had significant experience across the primary phase, including the Foundation Stage, as a teacher, head teacher, adviser and local authority manager. Anne has fourteen years’ experience as a head teacher of four very contrasting schools. Her last appointment was to a school in Serious Weaknesses and under her outstanding leadership it was judged as Good by OfSTED. |
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Antony Witheyman |
Antony was CEO of Innovate Muti Academy Trust in Northamptonshire from 2014 to 2023. He created the Trust from the seed of an idea with his fellow headteachers at the time. The Trust grew from 4 schools initially to 6 schools in 2022. All of the schools are village Primary Schools at the heart of their community. Each school is very different but with the same aim to deliver a Great education. Antony was also Headteacher at Weedon Bec Primary School from 2009 to 2021 as well as taking on 2 executive headships for the Local Authority in 2014, most notably at Roade Primary School who were inspected by Ofsted on day 2 of him being at the school! Antony has been an Ofsted Inspector previously and has carried out inspections across a wide range of schools in the Midlands. |
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Belinda Crowhurst |
Belinda has worked in Senior Leadership roles for the past 5 years following a 16 year career as an outstanding primary teacher and English subject lead. She took on the role of Associate School Leader at Reach South Academy Trust in 2019 where she supported strategic school improvement across 14 schools in Plymouth and Bournemouth. |
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Ben Cox |
Ben has been a successful Head Teacher in 2 primary schools in Cheshire East, leading his latest school to an Outstanding Ofsted judgement in September 2023. His understanding of strategic leadership is regularly shared, working with a number of schools on a variety of areas from supporting new head teachers, head teacher performance management and the recruitment of Head Teachers, to whole school curriculum design, developing subject leaders and preparing for Ofsted. |
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Cassie Blackwood |
Cassie Blackwood has a wealth of experience specialising in leading early years. Cassie firmly stands for representing the highest standards in education and outstanding expectations for making a real difference and delivering incomparable and extraordinary education to all. Cassie now works as a consultant supporting early years and primary phase, running staff training and exhibitions nationwide. |
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Catherine Cooke |
Catherine has taught students across the entire primary age range. She has demonstrated leadership in various contexts and is an experienced primary headteacher. |
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Chris Howarth |
Chris is currently the Headteacher of a primary school in an area of high deprivation on the outskirts of Bolton. He joined the school in September 2018 when the school was rated as ‘Requires Improvement’ and has brought about rapid improvement to secure a ‘Good’ inspection judgement in January 2020, with the Ofsted team recognising the ‘considerable improvements that leaders have made since the previous inspection’. |
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Claire Routhorn |
After completing a degree in psychology, Claire undertook her mental health nurse training and worked in a variety of settings including, acute mental health, community and CAMHS. |
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Colin Watson |
Colin Watson has over 18 years’ experience as a headteacher of a two-form entry primary School in Bolton. Through his leadership experiences he has worked in schools that serve ethnically and socially diverse communities. |
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Collette Mather |
Collette's leadership at Ashdene Primary School has been marked by significant accomplishments, notably achieving an 'Outstanding' rating from OFSTED in 2019. Her 17 years’ experience has been characterised by a deep understanding of educational contexts, gained through leadership roles in diverse primary schools. |
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Daniel Gauld |
Daniel is a serving Headteacher with experience of leading schools at all grades of the OFSTED framework. His current role is Head Teacher of a large primary school in an inner city location providing inclusive education for a diverse community. |
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Daniel Hartley |
Daniel is an experienced senior leader with a wide range of experience of coaching and mentoring leaders, SEN and curriculum development and monitoring. |
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David Harker |
David is an education consultant and accredited School Improvement Partner (SIP) and has extensive teaching and senior leadership experience in a wide range of schools across several local authorities, serving a wide range of communities. He has 24 years’ experience of Headship with significant school improvement experience across the Primary phase. |
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Deb Kemp |
Deb is an art specialist and teaches Art and Outdoor Learning at Primary Schools in Cheshire and the Wirral. She is also an Art Advisor for Stockport Local Authority and a consultant for ECM. |
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Donna Harris |
Throughout her career, Donna has been identified as a lead practitioner and an integral member of several senior leadership teams. Donna spent several years as a leading literacy teacher, deputy head teacher and time as an acting head teacher. She has a proven track record at developing the role of subject leaders and is currently the Primaries Science Lead across a multi-academy trust in the Northwest. |
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Elizabeth Pearce |
Elizabeth has been Headteacher of Little Aston Primary School near Sutton Coldfield in the West Midlands, since January 2005. Little Aston Primary is an average size, multi-ethnic primary school with 219 children on roll, excluding the Governor run pre-school 'Sparkletots'. |
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Emily Morris |
Current serving Primary Headteacher at Eastway Primary School. Emily has been headteacher at Eastway Primary School for over six years. She has been a school leader on the Wirral for over 10 years since moving from the Lake District. Emily has been in education as a teacher and leader for 20 years, working in a wide range of schools. Whilst in Cumbria, she worked as an Early Years Advisory Teacher and Consultant. She has recently joined ECM Education supporting school improvement, Headteacher appraisal and training. |
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Gillian Talbot |
Gillian has been a headteacher since 2007 with experience as an Executive Headteacher of two primary schools. She is also an LLE, a Pupil Premium Reviewer, headteacher mentor and a lead of a local consortium of primary schools. She has worked as a Quality Education Partner for Bury Local Authority since 2019 and is a facilitator on the NPQLT with the Best Practice Network. |
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Helen McGrath |
Helen McGrath is a retired Headteacher who has extensive leadership skills with 32 years teaching experience, 15 of these in leadership roles in a variety of primary schools. The schools have all been in differing categories, giving her a vast array of experience, mostly in the Catholic sector. |
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James Marsh |
James has gained extensive leadership experience working as a senior leader and Headteacher in a range of primary schools across the North West. He has recently left the headship of St Thomas CE Primary School in Leigh to pursue the role of Education Consultant and adviser to a range of schools in differing contexts. |
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Jayne McCallum |
Jayne has worked for a Multi Academy Trust, with academies located across the length and breadth of the UK, for the last four years and previous to this she worked for a Local Authority Advisory Service, beginning as an English specialist but diversifying into becoming a generic learning and teaching advisor and school improvement professional. |
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Jeanette Westhead |
Jeanette has been the Headteacher of Lowton West Primary School (a large two-form entry school in Wigan) for the past fifteen years and has led the school through three successful OFSTED Inspections. Prior to that, she held two Deputy Headteacher posts, both in large primary schools. |
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Jim McGrath |
With over 20 years reviewing schools and leading reviews, Jim specialises in the quality assurance of schools. He has expertise in working with primary, secondary, including sixth forms, and all-through schools. |
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John Evans |
John is one of the directors of ECM who were established 14 years ago. He has 13 years of headship experience in two contrasting Primary schools. In both schools Ofsted identified John as an outstanding leader. John has 4 years’ experience as a local authority adviser and was a serving inspector for Ofsted. |
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John Littler |
John is currently headteacher at a large primary school. He has extensive headship experience from leading two contrasting primary schools and completing a period of secondment at a school in Special Measures. John also supports schools in his local authority. |
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Julie Cheung |
Julie is currently the headteacher at Brownlow Primary School in Bolton. She has also taken on an executive headship for the local authority supporting a 520 pupil primary school providing stability in the absence of a substantive headteacher. She had led and supported this school through their recent Ofsted inspection. |
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Julie Hurst |
Julie is a passionate positive psychologist and coach, dedicated to cultivating effective leadership within educational settings. With her unwavering dedication for empowering school leaders and promoting growth, she has supported schools throughout the UK. |
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Karen Morris |
Karen is a very experienced primary Headteacher. She has led schools in areas of significant disadvantage and supported schools in different contexts. As well as being a serving Headteacher in Warrington, Karen also works as an associate school adviser for the Local Authority, and has recently joined ECM Education supporting school improvement, Headteacher appraisal and training. |
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Kate Hurley |
A former assistant headteacher, Kate taught at an IAPS Preparatory School in Devon for 13 years. Prior to working in the independent sector, Kate taught in the maintained sector as well as internationally in Italy and the USA. |
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Kathy Nichol |
Kathy has led her school through two very good Ofsted Inspections, led the school through the process of conversion to academy status, has increased the age range of the school and has managed several large-scale premises development projects. |
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Katie Hague |
Katie is currently the Headteacher of All Saints CE Primary School in Bolton. She has worked in a range of school improvement roles in a range of contexts. She has particular expertise in the inspection process, framework and methodology. |
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Kevan Naughton |
Kevan is a serving headteacher and National Leader of Education who has 14 years of headship experience within two large multi-cultural urban schools. |
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Lancashire Professional Development Service (LPDS) |
ECM Education Ltd. and Lancashire Professional Development Service have partnered to offer an extensive range of CPD opportunities for primary and secondary schools, academies, and trusts across the UK. |
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Laura Brown |
Laura has been a consultant with First4Maths since 2019. She is passionate about the teaching and learning of mathematics and has a desire to see all children grow, develop and achieve their potential as confident and engaged mathematicians. |
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Lesley Else |
Lesley Else joined ECM Education Consultants as an Associate Advisor in November 2016. Lesley has extensive quality assurance experience in schools. She holds the National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH) and the Professional Qualification for School Inspectors (PQSI)
Before joining ECM, Lesley had over 20 years’ experience in a range of teaching and senior leadership roles within primary schools, taking one from requires improvement to good and another from good to outstanding. |
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Liam Trippier |
Liam is an experienced school improvement professional. He has been one of Her Majesty’s Inspectors, a lead Ofsted inspector and a Headteacher of a successful primary school. His work in evaluating and guiding schools has helped to improve the quality of education and wider provision for their pupils. |
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Lisa Hesmondhalgh |
Lisa is Director of English for the Aspire Educational Trust and has recent experience as a primary headteacher. She has particular expertise in the inspection process, framework and methodology and is an evidence Lead in Education for Aspirer Research School, as well as a consultant for ECM. |
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Louise Corlett |
Louise has been a Senior Advisor for Warrington Primary, Secondary and Special Schools for a number of years. |
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Lynn Clark |
Lynn has significant experience as a School Leader in a three form-entry Junior School on a large council estate. This has involved taking a school from special measures to outstanding. Ofsted recognised that, ‘the headteacher and her team of senior and middle leaders are very effective in sustaining and further improving the high quality of teaching across the school.’ She has successfully managed her school and others through HMI monitoring visits and Ofsted Inspections. |
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Mark Mullin |
Mark is one of the Directors of ECM Education. He has extensive and current working experience as a Primary School Improvement Partner and Adviser. |
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Michael Gaskill |
Michael has significant strengths and experience including 22 years in headship and executive headship across eight local authorities for schools serving a wide range of communities. |
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Mike Dixon |
Mike is Headteacher at Acresfield Academy, as well as an associate for ECM. He has been Headteacher at Acresfield Academy for 15 years, where he has moved the school from satisfactory to outstanding. The school is a one form entry primary school in Chester, with a nursery and resource provision for pupils with moderate learning difficulties and complex needs. |
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Mylene McGuire |
Working for 35 years in challenging urban contexts. Mylene is a National Leader of Education (NLE) and Executive Headteacher of a small Federation of two schools in Manchester. Mylene has worked as an NLE, Headteacher, Primary strategy manager, lead consultant on the national pilot and rollout of the Improving schools programme; a mathematics and literacy consultant, a school improvement adviser, SIP, and as the senior officer for quality assurance in 3-19 Education for Manchester City Council. |
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Nichola Hill |
Nichola Hill is the Headteacher of a single form entry primary school in Wigan with a maintained nursery and a Resourced Provision (for KS1 and KS2 pupils with SEMH, ASD and SLCN) serving an area of very high deprivation (92% disadvantaged pupils). |
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Nicky Parkinson |
Nicky has 30 years of experience in education, 20 of those within senior leadership working across a range of schools and catchments and 15 as a successful primary school head teacher, during which time she led the school from requires improvement to good with outstanding features in less than three years. On her retirement from this role in 2023, the school was in the top 20% nationally at GDS maths at both KS1 and KS2, reading GDS KS2 as well as for progress in reading. School was also in the top 20% for attendance and within the lowest 20% for staff absence; a school that not only achieved excellent pupil outcomes but where pupil and staff wellbeing was given the highest priority. |
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Nikki Patel |
Nikki is currently the School Improvement Director for the Bolton and Farnworth Church of England Primary Multi Academy Trust and a Specialist Leader of Education for CPD and ITT. |
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Oliver McPhail |
Oliver has been working in education since 2011 and is currently the Headteacher at Broughton CE Primary School in Preston. |
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Paul Ackers |
Paul is an experienced senior leader within Primary Schools. He is in his twelfth year of headship and he is currently the head teacher of St Nicholas Catholic Academy in Liverpool. Prior to relocating back to the north west he was an Executive Head and school improvement partner for the St Ralph Sherwin MAT with responsibility for school to school QA support, digital innovation and also, the development of subject leader expert groups across the Trust. Paul has also been a head teacher in Leigh, Derby City and Stockport and he has worked across a number of local authorities in a school leadership and improvement capacity. |
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Paul Buckland |
Paul was Headteacher at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Cumbria for seven years, the highest performing school in that county. |
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Phill Walmsley |
Phill Walmsley is an educational consultant. He has experience in supporting a wide variety of schools in self-evaluation, curriculum review as well as, personal development, leadership and management, behaviour and attitudes, and safeguarding. He has a track record of contributing to sustained improvements in the schools he has worked with, and feedback from leaders is consistently positive. |
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Ray Biglin |
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Robbie McGrath |
Robbie McGrath is the Headteacher of an Outstanding Primary School and Nursery in Sheffield. He has 13 years of school leadership experience and has worked with schools nationally on curriculum design, assessment, teacher and leadership development. |
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Sarah Dillon |
Sarah is currently the Headteacher of Woolston CE Primary School and has been in post since September 2015. |
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Shaun Miles |
Shaun Miles has been a Senior Leader within the primary sector since 1997. During the past 20 years, he has been Headteacher of three different schools across a range of settings and Local Authorities. He is currently Headteacher at St. Luke’s CE Primary School, Cannock, Staffordshire which is a larger than average primary school. Much of his experience has been within schools with a Christian character and this continues to be a real interest and drive in his work. His passion for school improvement has led to attainment and progress above national averages in previous and current schools. |
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Simon Dyson |
Simon has been Headteacher at Highfields Academy in Nantwich for 14 years. During this time he has led the school through four successful OFSTED inspections and his leadership has been recognised as outstanding. |
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Sue Whitfield |
Sue has recently retired (Dec 2020) from Headship in a large primary school in Congleton. She is an LLE and has NPQH. She is a level 7 Executive Coach. |
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Tim Nelson |
Tim Nelson is a former primary headteacher and now works as a consultant and author. During his teaching career he taught every year group from Reception to Y13 with the majority of this classroom experience being in KS1 and KS2. When he was a headteacher his school was recognised for its innovative approaches to the curriculum with his ideas shared at a European conference and regularly featuring on Teachers TV and other media. |
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Tony Birch |
Tony is the Founding Director of Birch Education. This bespoke educational consultancy, founded in 2020, is dedicated to empowering individuals and teams, supporting them to develop sustainable and successful approaches. Focused on ‘insight-analysis-growth’, his recent commissions have included strategic planning, partnership development, and supported self-evaluations. He works with a range of organisations and is a facilitator on National Professional Qualifications for headship and executive leadership. He is also a Challenge Partners lead reviewer. |
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Vicki Guest |
Vicki is the Director of Primary Education for the Leverhulme Multi-Academy Trust. She has been the Headteacher of Lostock Primary School for 10 years. Lostock Primary School has an excellent reputation, with consistently high levels of achievement. In the May 2024 Ofsted inspection, the school was graded as outstanding in all areas. |
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Victoria Harris |
Victoria Harris is an experienced Primary Languages Specialist and Consultant. |
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Wendy Wheldon |
Wendy has been teaching for over 30 years and has experience in a wide range of settings with widely differing catchment areas: infant and nursery, primary and first schools, Pupil Referral Unit (EBD), Home Education and Higher Education. She had four very successful headships with several ‘Outstanding’ judgements. |
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