School to school support
Specialist Leaders of Education
Kate Roberts
specialism: primary science
Kate is the Director of the HTSA. She has 15 years of teaching experience in 3 different London boroughs. Kate was identified as a leading science teacher when she worked in Haringey.
Following her classroom and subject leadership experience, Kate was a teaching and learning consultant, specialising in primary science for Hackney Local Authority. In this role she lead the borough’s primary science professional development offer and supported a wide range of schools to develop the quality of teaching, learning and assessment in science.
Experienced in providing professional development and passionate about the impact of high quality CPD, Kate worked for the UCL Institute of Education as a Professional Development Leader in primary science. There she also led a programme to develop specialist science teachers in primary schools.
As director of the Hackney Teaching Schools’ Alliance Kate teaches on the Newly Qualified Teacher and Successful Classroom Practice programmes.
Support with planning, teaching and assessment
Subject leadership support
Review and evaluation of practice
Monitoring and feedback to staff/SLT
Curriculum development
Support with science-themed weeks
Network building
1:1 support for teachers
Provision of CPD sessions
Support with raising the profile of science
Bespoke support tailored to the needs of your school
Katherine Turley
Specialism: PRIMARY HUMANITIES.
Katherine is the Humanities lead in Mandeville Primary School, part of the LEAP Federation. She has updated the LEAP Federation History and Geography curriculum so it reflects the enquiry based process. Katherine is working with LEAP leaders to successfully implement and embed the updated curriculum across the federation.
Katherine has lead the HTSA Humanities Forum over the past year and has enjoyed this leadership role. She has worked with two School Direct students and is Year 3 and 4 Phase leader. Katherine studied the humanities at university and takes a keen interest in the subjects in her personal life.
Katherine has expertise in:
Writing and developing humanities curriculum
Developing and improving ways of teaching the enquiry based process
Developing and improving ways of teaching chronology, from EYFS to KS2
Working with struggling teachers to develop their subject knowledge and teaching skills
Creating and leading whole school Black History Month and London History Day schemes of work
Humanities planning with students and NQTs
Monitoring books and delivering feedback
Helping plan and deliver staff meetings for both history and geography
School: Mandeville Primary School
Janne Cornish
specialism: primary english
Janne is the Leader of Learning for English at Kingsmead Primary, where she has been teaching for over 20 years. Part of Janne's role is to support classroom teachers in all aspects of literacy teaching and is instrumental in maintaining accurate and consistent literacy assessment across the whole school. Janne's has an interest in applying assessment to plan for effective targeted teaching in English; to plan for progress. Janne is Reading Recovery trained and specialises in planning literacy interventions.
School: Kingsmead Primary School
Lisa Clarke
specialism: ITT Primary
Lisa has successfully mentored a wide number of trainee teachers studying a range of teaching courses, such as BA, BEd, PGCE, GTP and SCITT. Lisa has worked with many HEI’s: The University of Cumbria, London Metropolitan, The University of East London, The University of Gloucester and The Institute of Education. In her role as mentor she has supported colleagues through the use of clear support plans and has used the IRIS Connect web-based CPD to move new trainees on.
Lisa leads on our successful Initial Teacher Training programme.
School: Gayhurst Community School
Email: LClarke@gayhurst.hackney.sch.uk
Sarah Betney
SPECIALISM: PRIMARY MATHS
Sarah Betney is a maths specialist with over fifteen years’ experience of working in schools in Hackney. She is a qualified ‘Numbers Count’ teacher who is currently the Leader of Learning for Maths and joint Year 6 teacher in Kingsmead School. She has lead the maths team through two Ofsted inspections, the last resulting in a grade of ‘Outstanding’ for the school. Sarah has provided maths training to NQTs, teachers and trainee teacher across a number of the alliance schools. She has also played a key role in creating a scheme of work and assessment materials for the new curriculum for KS1 and KS2.
School: Kingsmead Primary School
Helen Edwards
Specialism: Business Management
Helen has over 13 years of experience as a School Business Manager/Specialist Leader at Clapton Girls’ Academy. Starting out in her role when Clapton was a Local Authority maintained school. In 2011 Helen saw the school through its business transition to Academy status. Helen has experience of planning budgets, linking them to School Improvement Planning and strategic finance as well as HR management. Part of the building schools for the future project, Helen has a wealth of building work and premises management experience.
School: Clapton Girls' Academy
Tanwen dimoline
Specialism: PE
Tanwen is Head of PE at Clapton Girls’ Academy and is an experienced middle leader. To increase the provision for PE in her role, Tanwen has mentored NQTs, regularly collaborates with external agencies and co-ordinates two successful coaching programmes. Tanwen’s focus has been to raise the profile of high quality PE through curriculum development as well as extra-curricular opportunities. Tanwen has also engaged with the wider benefits of sport for student wellbeing and attendance outcomes.
Tanwen has expertise in:
Leading a department through curriculum changes
Leading on planning and assessment for the 9-1 GCSE specification
Developing new KS3 assessment measures
Developing and mentoring staff (NQTs, experienced staff, external coaches, ITT)
Contributing to whole school policies
Promoting outstanding teaching for learning
Liaising with outside agencies to support student progress
School: Clapton Girls’ Academy