Alice Aharon has worked in primary education for over 18 years both in London and in Hertfordshire.  She has been Executive Headteacher in Hertfordshire for over 5 years, as well as being the CEO of the Poppy Academy Trust.  Alice has a wealth of experience in Leadership, Mentoring, Coaching and more recently led the NPQML for a London Trust. She has a passion for ‘growing her own’. Alice is a governor on three local governing bodies. Alice’s Trust won a National Teaching Award for Outstanding Learner and Community Support in Autumn 2021.  

Alice can offer support in New Executive Headteachers/Headteachers/Heads of Schools/Deputy Headteachers; Middle Leadership development and leading subjects with intent, the implementation and how to measuring impact; New to Middle Leadership/Developing experienced middle leaders and how to use research effectively; Creating an excellent Safeguarding Culture: efficient recording keeping, working with families and new to the DSP role; parent and carer engagement.

Clementina Aina is an experienced, accredited inspector. She works with several local authorities to help schools improve their performance and raise the standard of teaching and learning.

She has a wealth of experience of conducting inspections of independent, mainstream and special schools in the UK and the Middle East. Through her extensive work in supporting school’s self-evaluation and improvement, she has helped schools to share a practical, contextual approach to improving the quality of teaching and learning. She has been successful in empowering schools to develop a creative and innovative approach to steering continuous improvement. 

As an accredited performance management consultant, she advises headteachers and governors on pay and performance of staff. She has empowered school leaders to develop a coaching and monitoring approach to teaching, lesson observation and feedback. Her strategic approach to supporting schools means she has assisted them in linking each school’s overarching priorities to teachers’ performance targets and pupil progress.  

She has conducted reviews of Early Years, whole school and SEN provision and developed school’s capability to meet the educational needs of their pupils.

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Kiran Bagai is a qualified School Business Manager and a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. She has over 10 years’ experience working with schools, both within the Public and Private Sector. This includes 3 years working as part of the School’s Finance team for Barnet where she supported up to 12 schools and a further 8 years supporting both primary and secondary schools as part of their SLT.

Kiran has also been instrumental in helping schools in Financial Difficulty by setting and maintaining difficult school budgets as well as improving timely cash flows throughout the year. Kiran is currently helping lead several secondary and primary schools out of massive deficit positions of between £100,000 and £3,000,000. To achieve this she has been involved in reviewing and proposing major staffing restructures, negotiated major building projects, renegotiated existing contracts and implemented effective processes and controls. She has also helped set their 3 year recovery and action plans.

Kiran enjoys guiding and supporting schools in their drive to achieve and maintain effective and efficient use of all resources throughout all aspects of school life.

Kiran can offer support in areas of Finance, HR, Facilities Management, ICT and School Development.

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Yvonne is an experienced and forward thinking school leader with a passion for inclusion, independent learning and pupil voice. She was the founding Headteacher of Etz Chaim Jewish Primary School, one of the first Free Schools that opened in 2011. She was involved in the design and build process of a new and purpose built school including the design of the school's curriculum; building a successful staff team and ensuring graduates are well prepared for KS3 and life beyond school.

Yvonne is community minded and passionate about child-centred learning across the school. She successfully implemented continuous provision and independent learning opportunities in EYFS, KS1 and KS2 supported by SeeSaw and other technologies. She developed pupil voice across a range of aspects of school life, supporting children to become confident and responsible citizens. 

Yvonne areas of expertise include:

• developing vision

• school improvement

• staff appraisal

• coaching and mentoring staff 

• curriculum development

• behaviour management including social and emotional learning and pupil voice

• analysis of performance data

• safeguarding

Shirley Bates was the Deputy Head teacher of Brookland Junior School for the last 8 years. She has over 30 years experience of working within the Primary sector in Barnet and Islington.  Shirley has extensive experience of developing  a  broad and progressive bespoke curriculum alongside monitoring and review systems.

Shirley has led English and has an interest in writing, being a lead moderator at KS2 for many years as well as specifically developing the areas of EAL, French and gifted and talented pupils. Often referred to as an outstanding practitioner, Shirley can offer teaching and learning advice to support your curriculum development to meet all your pupils’ needs.

Shirley works within a coaching approach to grow staff knowledge and expertise. She believes in developing staff and pupils to be highly reflective practitioners.  Shirley can offer support in the following areas: Developing a progressive curriculum as well as individual subjects and supporting and developing middle and senior leaders.

Ray Biglin is a highly experienced inspector, reviewer and consultant. Ray has wide experience of working internationally carrying out primary, all through and secondary school reviews in the Cayman Islands and New York and has delivered professional development in an international school in France. He is an accredited BSO inspector and recently was part of a team which carried out an inspection in Abu Dhabi.

Ray provides training for primary and secondary schools and Further Education/6th forms in lesson observation skills, effective senior/middle management and general school improvement. He is also an expert in the leadership and management of post-16 education.

Between 2013 and 2017 Ray worked as an Education Challenge Partner across Norfolk providing regular support and challenge for over 30 primary schools. Currently, he works as an additional inspector quality assurance reader with Ofsted and has worked as an Ofsted Lead Inspector in the past in both the primary and secondary sector He is also working as a school improvement adviser with Leeds Authority and is a Lead Reviewer with Challenge Partners.

Ray can offer support in the following areas: preparing for Ofsted; lesson observation skills; self-evaluation; SEN provision; effective use of pupil premium funding; middle management training

Jeremy Bird is an inspirational and visionary school improvement consultant. He has a passion for education with an excellent track record of supporting school leaders. He is a dynamic, pro-active leader and coach, empowering staff at all levels to take ownership using coaching, training and mentoring. A natural communicator, Jeremy has proven ability in building cohesive teams to achieve challenging targets.

Jeremy served as a headteacher in two primary schools prior to becoming a consultant.

Jeremy can offer support in the following areas: Coaching school leaders and governors in primary and special schools; Inducting newly appointed leaders and teachers; Facilitating professional discussion and development in a range of middle, senior and headteacher leadership activities; Supporting leaders in developing the rationale, implementation and evaluation of their curriculum;

Challenging leaders in their self-evaluation of school effectiveness.

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Marc Boucherat is an experienced education professional and consultant specialising in leadership and management, school improvement and school based teacher development. He has extensive teaching and leadership experience in London and Hertfordshire. He was head teacher at St Joseph's Junior School, Barnet until 2004, leading the school to be recognised as outstanding. He was then senior adviser, SIP and Head of Primary School Effectiveness with Hertfordshire LA.

Since 2012 Marc has worked as a senior lecturer, tutor and consultant in teacher and leadership development with the University of Winchester, working directly with leaders, trainees and teachers in the southern region to develop schools, teaching schools and alliances within the new ‘self improving’ system. He has focussed on school based teacher training, teacher/leadership development, school to school support and system leadership. Marc completed Ofsted training in 2006 and supported schools as a national strategy consultant leader whilst a serving head teacher.

Marc can offer support in the following areas: school self evaluation and improvement; improving teaching and learning; analysing progress and attainment; head teacher, senior and middle leadership guidance, coaching and development; head teacher appraisal; support for schools in challenging situations; leading in a Catholic or faith school; system and executive leadership; guidance for teaching schools, alliances and MATs; school to school support; school based teacher training (school direct, assessment only); research based staff development; lesson study for improvement.

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Ruth Charteris is a highly qualified business leader at Wessex Gardens Primary and Nursery School.  She has extensive experience within leadership and in supporting leadership teams, teachers, support staff, children and families to significantly improve attendance within the Local Authority. 

Ruth provides whole staff training, and supports individual members of staff to develop strategies to improve class attendance.  She has successfully supported leadership, learning mentors and administrative teams in schools with low attendance to develop and implement effective action plans together with monitoring systems and polices.    

Ruth can offer support in all aspects of attendance: school-specific attendance reviews and action plans; reviewing areas of policy and practice; understanding and applying legislation; using data to identify areas/groups of concern; delivering training to senior leaders, teaching, administrative staff and learning mentors; implementing monitoring systems; delivering school specific advice and training; dealing with difficult parents to avoid conflict; reporting to the governing body.

Diana Choulerton has 25 years’ experience working in education as a teacher, leader and inspector. Diana has worked as one of Her Majesty’s (HMI) from 2014 to 2017.  During this time Diana has developed a wide range of experience and high level of skill related to inspection and education improvement.  This included leading inspections and monitoring visits of primary and secondary schools as well as SEND area inspections.  Whilst working as an HMI she also took on the role of Ofsted National Lead for Design and Technology.  Prior to joining Ofsted she worked as a senior advisor for a local authority leading on 14 to 19 strategy.  Diana also has 13 years’ previous experience working in secondary schools holding middle and senior leadership responsibilities in that time.

Diana offers insight, support and advice for leaders in primary and secondary schools and local authorities on all aspects of education improvement.  Specific areas of expertise include; change management, monitoring and evaluation, development planning, curriculum and assessment, teaching pedagogy, SEND reform implementation and 14-19 strategy.  Diana also remains passionate about D&T education and welcome opportunities to utilise my expertise in the subject.

Spencer Clayton has been a serving headteacher of Queenswell Junior School for fourteen years and understands the challenges of that role. In addition, he has taken the lead in ensuring the Junior School Alliance continues its school improvement role. He can offer mentoring for Headteacher; advice and guidance on workload, time management and work-life balance including long term leadership planning including event co-ordination.

Elaine Corcoran has over 35 years of experience in classroom teaching and leadership.  From 2008 – 2013  she worked for the School Improvement service in Hertfordshire supporting schools in a range of difficult circumstances, including those in Ofsted categories. Elaine is passionate about supporting leadership at all levels.  She has worked alongside head teachers, deputy heads, Sencos and Subject leaders, supporting them with monitoring schedules, school Self Evaluation and preparation for Ofsted and HMI visits. Elaine has coached and worked alongside class teachers.  She particularly enjoys working with staff to develop and manage ‘robust and sustainable systems’  for tracking pupils’ progress and identifying pockets of underachievement.
Elaine can offer guidance and support to schools with the following: detailed analysis of data; pupil progress tracking systems; developing the role of Senco/Inco; developing Subject leaders, both experienced and new to role; joint lesson observations/feedback to staff; detailed school Self Evaluation; Pupil Voice; Work/Planning scrutiny; developing the role of Support Staff.

James Coyle delivers school leadership training, coaching and mentoring in areas such as performance management, teaching and learning, leadership, and data analysis for improvement.
His school improvement experience includes: Ofsted and s48 Lead Inspector; Designated National Leader of Governance (NCSL); Approved Additional Support Governor (HSIP); Teacher Trainer; Chair in Harrow Primary and Secondary Schools over a 20 year period; Professional Development programme for Governors HSIP and Best Practice Network (BPN); Assessment of teachers for ITT, QTS and PGCE; Assessment systems for students learning.
Impact of work undertaken to support school improvement: Board member Harrow School Improvement Partnership since 2011; School Improvement Adviser Brent Secondary Schools; Chair of GB at outstanding Harrow school – Ofsted 2014; Completed school improvement interventions across London and SE following Ofsted RI referral to the National College and HSIP; Endorsed audits and action plans for improvement in teaching and learning, designed to drive up rates of progress, narrow the gap between learners and develop school leaders; Successful tutor to trainee teachers on behalf of the University of Buckingham.

Katie Dawbarn has recently retired as being Head of School Improvement and a Learning Network Inspector for Barnet Education Learning Service.  Prior to this, Katie has been a headteacher for nearly 10 years, in various roles (acting, interim and substantive). She has been responsible for supporting and monitoring many primary schools in Barnet.   This includes working with senior leaders on all aspects of school improvement.  She has a particular interest in developing leadership at all levels, whether aspiring senior leaders, subject leads or those new to senior leadership.  Katie has much experience of working with governors to recruit senior leaders and in providing governing body training around the curriculum and in preparation for Ofsted. She has also supported governors with headteacher performance management.  She is also a qualified performance coach (L5 ILM).  In this role, she has experience of supporting leaders to make those all-important career decisions, helping teachers to improve practice, worked with senior leadership teams to establish vision and values and review and refine their priorities.  She has also helped all staff in developing their skill in having difficult conversations and establishing positive working relationships.

Colin Dowland has been a headteacher for 15 years, leading schools in Barnet with very diverse catchments. He is currently headteacher at Woodridge Primary School in Finchley.

Colin can offer support and advice ‘from the inside’ on the 2019 Ofsted Framework, having survived an inspection in October 2019. He can also offer mentoring for senior leaders; advice on leadership and management; school improvement planning; staff re-structuring; school governance; developing middle leaders; provision in The Arts and Artsmark; staff well-being and how to use branding. He can also offer biscuits, a listening ear and empathy, if that is what is needed.

Colin is also a children’s author and an award-winning playwright. He can deliver fun, informative and interactive sessions about his approach to writing books and plays, through school writer visits – see www.colindowland.co.uk

Sandra Down is the Deputy Head at Oakleigh Special School based in Barnet. Sandra has a wealth of experience in teaching children with complex SEND across Early Years, Key stages 1 and 2 and supporting teams with key strategies to assess the children’s learning needs, to develop communication systems, deliver outstanding lessons and to manage behaviour positively. Her expertise has been used to design a curriculum for children with complex SEND. She is also Team Teach intermediate trainer.

Sandra can offer support in the following areas;

• Assessment of children with complex SEND;

• Curriculum design;

• Lesson planning and delivery;

• Understanding and positively supporting behaviour;

• Developing communication systems;

• Effective use of Intensive interaction and delivery of Attention Autism strategies;

• Supporting children with sensory processing difficulties.

Jillian Dunstan was the Head Teacher of Mathilda Marks-Kennedy Jewish Primary School for 11 years. This is a successful one form entry community school (with Nursery) in Mill Hill. The school is currently graded as outstanding and the recent Pikuach (Jewish Studies) inspection also graded the school as outstanding. Prior to that she was Deputy Head in a three form entry school in Harrow.

Jillian can offer support in Head Teacher performance management reviews as well as data analysis to inform the SEF and SIP. She can also assist in areas of leadership and management. Jillian has mentored new Head Teachers, as well as mentoring other members of SLT. She has also been involved in developing Middle Leaders, as well as in developing teams and leaders at all levels to improve standards. She gains much pleasure from seeing staff develop in their roles. Jillian also started work in her school focusing on the area of Staff Mental Health with a view to improving the retention of staff and developing a positive work environment.

Cobi Ebrahimoff is a former Head of an outstanding primary faith school with extensive experience in supporting school improvement. Instrumental in leading the school’s secular studies from ‘Good’ to ‘Outstanding’ and Jewish Studies from ‘Satisfactory’ to ‘Outstanding’, he is currently the Principal of the Independent Jewish Day School Academy in Barnet and the Executive Head of King Solomon, a British international all-through school in Israel. His qualifications include: BA in finance, MSc research in implementing change within school settings, NPQH, NLE, rabbinical ordination and Pikuach (Section 48) inspector. He tailored successful financial models for a range of schools and has substantial experience in developing Religious Education curricula, particularly in Jewish Studies.

Cobi can offer support in financial management and policies, effective appraisal systems, Headteacher Performance Management Reviews, data analysis to inform the SEF and SIP, training on effective use of data to inform planning, curriculum development and assessment in Jewish Studies, preparation for Pikuach inspections, SMSCD and training on improving teacher/parent partnerships. Cobi’s expertise provides support and training for Headteachers and Senior leaders aiming to achieve high standards of teaching and learning across secular and religious studies.

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Hayley Follett is currently a Deputy Head Teacher in an 11-18 comprehensive secondary school in North London. She has been teaching in the secondary phase since 1994.  Hayley was accredited with Advanced Skills Teacher status and worked across her Local Authority whilst being a Head of Science for 9 years before moving into leadership and inspection.  Her expertise is in effective teaching and learning.

Jen Gaffney has been the Headteacher of Chalgrove Primary School for 8 years. She has led the school through 2 successful Ofsted’s with Leadership being identified as a strength. She has a proven track record of developing and mentoring leaders at all levels. Jen has experience of leading the school through significant challenges and building projects, including the successful opening of a new additional resource provision for pupils with ASD. She has considerable experience and can offer support with data analysis and strategic school improvement; mentoring new heads; raising standards in teaching and learning and developing middle leaders.

Margaret Julia Goodchild is a highly experienced educational consultant with over 20 years’ experience of leading school inspections. She is experienced in inspecting and supporting nursery, primary, secondary and special schools and PRUs, and undertaking quality assurance work for inspection service providers. She has wide cross-phase teaching and advisory experience and was a Senior Lecturer in Education at Middlesex University with a national role in SEN and EAL. She has been an External Adviser for the Performance Management of Headteachers, and an Advanced Skills Teacher assessor. She is a published writer of EYFS materials for parents and practitioners and of school self-evaluation materials. She has particular expertise in relation to special educational needs and alternative provision and is currently Hertfordshire Improvement Partner for 16 special schools and pupil referral units. She is a fully trained counsellor as well as being an educationalist. Margaret is able to provide the following services to schools: school improvement reviews focusing on whole school effectiveness or aspects of provision chosen by the school; governance reviews; early years’ reviews; headteacher appraisal; coaching for senior and middle leaders; support for school leaders in improving teaching and learning, including through joint lesson observations, and in the use of self-evaluation for continuous school improvement.

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Royden Gothelf is a chartered IT professional providing independent advice to Primary, Secondary and Academy school leaders on cost management and strategic IT planning, linking the use of technology to whole school outcomes such as improve teaching and learning.  The approach gives the school a platform for moving forward, reducing spending in areas.

Royden is based in Barnet having over 30 years experience on the use of technology to deliver innovative changes in the workplace and in teaching and learning.

Royden provides advice and training to senior leaders, governors and trustees on: comprehensive strategic plan linking IT to whole school plans, use of technologies in the classroom, management of documents meeting GDPR and Safeguarding, data analysis and management, emerging technologies for use in education and how to be ready to benefit from them - e.g. AI (Artificial Intelligence), Procurement of IT - getting the best from suppliers. 

Bob Hamlyn has extensive school leadership experience and has served for 17 years as a headteacher in two contrasting London schools. Within these roles Bob has chaired local authority headteacher groups and worked closely with key stakeholders to help secure school improvement.  More recently he has led inspections in primary, secondary and all-through settings across the London region. Bob therefore has a strong understanding of the inspection framework, including identifying best practice related to curriculum design and implementation, and safeguarding procedures. 

Bob can also offer support in: coaching and supporting school leaders; helping leaders to develop effective self evaluation and school improvement plans; developing effective governing bodies; dealing with complex complaints.

Jeni has over 17 years of Headteacher experience, ten of which were as an Executive Head; extensive and significant experience of special educational needs at school and county level across different local authorities and 28 years of experience of teaching and leading mathematics, including working as a Primary Strategy Consultant, and obtaining Maths Specialist Teacher status.

Jeni can support your school by offering a wide range of bespoke provision tailored to your needs. This could include professional development and training for your Maths Lead, including effective use of data and how to hold colleagues to account;  delivering small group or whole school staff training on a wide range of teaching, learning and assessment and school improvement aspects; supporting your staff in keeping abreast of changes in education such as the proposed changes in the SEND Green Paper 2022; class based support to improve teaching and learning from Early Years through to Year 6; support for middle and senior leaders to review and improve the use of your chosen schemes of work or professional develop, support and training for middle and senior leaders new to leadership.

Jennifer Hourihan is an experienced Deputy Headteacher having been at St Agnes for 7 years.  During that time she has experienced 3 Ofsted inspections, the last of which graded the school as outstanding in all areas under the new Inspection Framework October 2019.  Jennifer leads on curriculum, assessment and works alongside subject leaders who are both new to the role and experienced.  Jennifer is passionate in offering all children a challenging broad and balanced curriculum, with a sequenced flow of learning.  She has extensive SENCO experience and ensurers the curriculum meetings the needs of all leaders.

Özlem Imil is a qualified and DISC accredited Executive Coach, Facilitator and Trainer. She has 20 years’ experience in education, predominantly in inner London primary schools- as a senior leader, teacher and a coach. During her years as a teacher and senior leader she was known to be an expert in bringing outstanding results to children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Özlem’s current passion is to raise the achievement and well-being of children and young people through raising the achievement and well-being of the adults working with them first.  She is a coach who connects with clients quickly to get to the heart of the matter and is skilled in helping them change mindset, behaviours and habits.  She has a keen eye for detail and is experienced in creating strategic roadmaps to meet individual and organisational needs. As well as one to one coaching and group coaching, Özlem offers facilitation and interpersonal skills training to schools in the areas of leadership, communication, team building, productivity and well-being. She works with leaders, staff at all levels and governors. Her training is designed carefully to meet the individual needs of each school.

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Alison Jacob is an experienced Head teacher with a proven track record of significantly raising standards, achievement and behaviour. She works strategically, and is passionate about critical thinking, with a specialist knowledge in how to embed opportunities for developing independent learning.  She has also worked across a range of schools successfully managing change. 

Currently Head at Edgware Primary School - a school with very high levels of EAL, mobility and disadvantage. Alison has taken it from, 'very challenging, with long standing special measures' to a 'good' school. It has an accreditation from Exeter University as a Thinking School and is also a hub school for best practice.

Alison also works as a Barnet Improvement Partner and carries out school reviews.

She offers consultancy and supports staff with a mix of coaching and mentoring. Alison is highly experienced in developing teams and leaders at every level, motivating them to improve standards and staff practice. She loves to see people positively grow in their roles. ​

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She offers help in the following areas: developing vision; strategy for improvement; raising standards, developing effective and impactful teams, effective appraisal, staffing structure, challenging behaviour; EYFS; developing parent partnerships; whole school curriculum development and assessment. 

Sally King has over 10 years of experience as a senior leader in primary schools in Barnet; most recently being four years as a head teacher, two of which as an executive head teacher after establishing a federation of two schools.

She has a very successful history in school improvement at all levels and has a wide range of skills, knowledge and experience to offer. She has a particular interest and expertise in developing a dynamic and powerful learning environment for all members of the school community at every level. Sally enjoys mentoring and coaching members of staff and has a proven track record in distributive leadership and building capacity for change and improvement with senior and middle leadership teams.

As a teacher and leader Sally has established and developed high quality child-centred curriculum and classroom practice across key stages leading to high levels of engagement, enthusiasm and excellent progress for all. 

Sally can offer support in the following areas: supporting new head teachers; developing leadership capacity; interrogating data and evidencing impact; action planning for school improvement and evaluating impact; developing high quality teaching and learning in the classroom and developing pupil voice and empowering learners.

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Michael Larkin is an independent educational consultant with experience teaching in a variety of secondary and primary schools. He has considerable experience as a headteacher in London and in Milton Keynes. Michael’s leadership was consistently judged as outstanding. Michael has an excellent track record both as a headteacher and as a school improvement consultant. Schools appreciate the level of insight, which enables them to address their improvement agenda in a rapid and sustainable manner. Michael is friendly, funny, personable and incredibly organised and makes sure excellence and providing an exemplary service is at the heart of all of his work with colleagues in schools. Michael lives in Barnet and is keen to work with schools to support the best outcomes for pupils in Barnet.  Michael is passionate about ethical leadership. Michael can offer support in the following areas, including strategic school improvement;  leadership development through coaching and mentoring; developing ethos and critically reflective practice of all staff; headteacher appraisal; school self evaluation; through strengthening leadership at all levels;  improving teaching and learning; using drama techniques in all subjects; building an outstanding computing curriculum; governance training and reviews;  curriculum review and development; safeguarding, including audits.

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Debby Lipkin is a highly experienced educational consultant with over 20 years’ experience in working with local authorities, MATs and schools. Her long association with the London Borough of Brent started with a lead post of Inclusion Adviser and she has for many years been an associate consultant, having worked independently since 2000. She now leads the school reviews in Brent. She has wide cross phase experience and has had recent interim headship experience in three diverse schools, a special EBD secondary in Southwark, a diverse multi ethnic and challenging secondary school in Enfield and most recently a large faith secondary school in Brent( JFS). Debby led all the schools to improved Ofsted status. Debby can offer wide ranging consultancy support including: self-evaluation and development planning; school and curriculum reviews; implementing school wide systems and processes in order to rapidly improve provision; senior and middle leadership development; support for new headteachers; auditing SEND, safeguarding, pupil premium and governance; effective monitoring of teaching and learning; improving behaviour and emotional health and wellbeing for all. Debby can also provide a wide range of useful and practical resources.

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Declan McCarthy has extensive experience in the field of special educational needs and disabilities. He has considerable leadership experience as; a head teacher in a special school, head of two large local authority support services and as a local authority adviser for SEND. 
Declan has published and developed resources for schools including the dexFRAME reading aid and the ‘SEN Resource Manual for schools’. Declan also currently works as a Hertfordshire Improvement Partner for six special schools and is the director for education of an independent special school in Horsham for pupils with Autism and associated SLCN.
Declan leads school inspections in academies, maintained and independent primary schools, special schools (day and residential) and PRUs. He has also taken part in national surveys on; Learning Difficulties and Disabilities; Pupil Referral Units and Learning Support Centres.
Declan’s training in school inspections and in safeguarding are fully up to date.

Declan can offer support in the following areas: Strengthening self-evaluation and school improvement planning - Whole school reviews and preparation for inspection - Training guidance and support including developing monitoring skills of middle leaders, and governors - SEND and safeguarding audits - Checking compliance of website and school policies

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Craig has over ten years senior leadership experience including two as acting headteacher of an outstanding secondary school. In addition, his other roles include being; a PiXL associate, Chief Financial Officer of a stand-alone academy and the Chair of Governors at a primary school.

Craig can offer support in the following areas: effective use of data to improve pedagogy and outcomes for students; development of the curriculum in order that it is ambitious, well planned, and clearly sequenced; subject and pastoral based reviews to support leaders in creating efficient strategies to improve outcomes.

Tim McLoughlin is a very experienced school leader having been a headteacher in inner London before working as a School Development Advisor. He has over thirty years experience of working in education. He is an School Inspector and currently inspects primary and independent schools. Tim can support schools with reviews and evaluation of leadership and curriculum practice as well as training for staff and governors on many aspects of school leadership. He is also able to act as an external advisor for headteacher performance management meetings. As a qualified counsellor he is also able to work with leaders on the development of mental health and well-being within a school context.

Janet Moffat a highly skilled and effective primary practitioner with over 30 years of experience of working in teaching and leadership roles in inner city schools in London.  As the headteacher of a challenging inner city school in serious decline, she developed a strong ethos and corporate team and a model of teaching and learning which led to significant improvements in teaching and learning practices and was instrumental in moving the school to outstanding.

Janet is currently a local authority School Improvement Partner with 9 years’ experience of supporting schools in challenging circumstances on their journey to securing excellent outcomes for all pupils. Janet can offer support in the following areas:  Strategic school improvement and self-evaluation practices - Development of an enquiry based curriculum  - Strengthening links in the teaching of reading and writing - Deep dives in core and foundation subjects - External advisor for governing bodies to support the performance management of headteachers.

Patrick Moriarty has 20 years’ experience as a senior leader in secondary schools, 10 of them as Headteacher at JCoSS in Barnet. His 35-year career in North London schools has included selective and all-ability, single-sex and mixed, faith and non-faith, independent and maintained institutions. He took JCoSS in a decade from pre-opening (as sole Deputy) to Sunday Times Greater London School of the Year (as Head). He is guided by a desire for inclusion and aspirational achievement, humour and humanity in leadership, and the highest standards across the teaching profession.

He can offer support across the range of issues facing school leaders, in particular:

Whole-school vision and ethos development; Leadership and team culture; Headteacher coaching and appraisal; Conflict management; Inclusion strategy and practice; Curriculum development and innovation; Vocational education; Marketing, communications and parental engagement; Recruitment and retention strategy.

After 36 years of working Education, Kevin retired from full time work earlier this year. Most recently, he was Director of ITE at Brunel University where he had strategic oversight for primary and secondary PGCE Courses. and supporting schools with CPD.

Prior to this is Kevin spent 8 years in Local Government in three London Councils and was Assistant Director for Education in Southwark with responsibility for School improvement.

His career includes a secondment to Ofsted inspecting schools, teacher education and FE colleges.

He taught in secondary schools for 13 years, up to and including leading a large English department in Kent and Assistant Headteacher for CPD and ITE.

Kevin is currently working as a consultant for LB Harrow School Advisory service and supporting primary schools with Ofsted preparation, Headteacher Performance Management, Safeguarding and ensuring the curriculum is Ofsted ready.

He has been a governor and have delivered governor training across primary and secondary schools, in the maintained  and  academy /MAT sector.

Kevin was educated in Barnet at Broadfields School and Orange Hill Secondary.

Helen Morrison is currently a Learning Network Inspector for Barnet Local Authority and a School Inspector. Helen was previously headteacher of a large Primary in Barnet.  During her time at the school, Helen has led the school successfully through two Ofsted Inspections, the last inspection team judging the school as Outstanding. Helen has a particular interest in effective leadership structures and enjoys supporting schools to identify and plan for school improvement. Helen has direct experience of leading major change and  has led on the amalgamation of two schools as well as experience of leading major building projects, including school expansion. Helen's Ofsted work enables her to have an up to date understanding of what Oustanding school effectiveness looks like. She enjoys supporting schools in their drive to achieve and maintain this across all aspects of school life.

Dinah is a primary school teacher and primary PGCE lecturer and Supervision Tutor at the UCL Institute of Education. She is also a qualified Personal Performance Coach and NLP Practitioner.

Since starting out as a parent volunteer, delivering a maths intervention programme in 2010, she has made significant impact on school improvement and held various roles of responsibility, including lead practitioner on raising attainment in writing, lead PSHE practitioner, and UKS2 phase leader and whole-school curriculum lead.

With her competencies in coaching and NLP, she is particularly interested in supporting schools to develop effective, whole-school practice that is cognizant of the impact of pupil well-being on educational outcomes, and which consistently and proactively promotes the wellbeing of all pupils and all staff.

She provides whole-school, group and individual training and services that encourage positive communication and cohesion amongst staff, in both the primary and secondary phase.

Beverley Perin began her career as teacher of French, and then became a Head of Modern Foreign Languages. Gaining skills and confidence, she moved on to deputy headship, and then took up post as a headteacher in a good secondary school, with outstanding leadership. Beverley undertook interventions as a headteacher in schools in the most challenging areas. She gained an MBA from Hull University in international educational leadership.

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Beverley supports primary and secondary schools across the country. She has worked in special schools and chaired governing bodies in primary and secondary schools. Some of these required her to help schools get out of special measures.

Beverley delivers inset for trustees and governors - is a good diagnostician and identifies what schools need to do next. Beverley is skilled at writing SEFs and school improvement plans, training leaders to do the same. She especially enjoys training and developing middle and senior leaders, in addition to lay leaders, and works with staff to improve  the quality of education.

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Beverley coaches headteachers and puts together school reviews including senior leaders as much as she can. She is fully trained in safeguarding level 3, and has led safeguarding reviews. Beverley can give support in all areas of school improvement.

Miranda Perry has held senior positions in the primary, secondary and advisory education sector. She has considerable experience as a lead Ofsted inspector for primary and secondary schools. She works as an education consultant for government research trials, as a school improvement partner for local authorities and with schools who want to develop 'beyond outstanding'.  She runs a range of courses and workshops for BPSI on, for example, effective self-evaluation and school improvement planning, interpreting RoL and impactful interventions.
Her qualifications include NPQH, a research MA in public sector change, Diplomas in Counselling, and Change Management.
Miranda can offer the following support: SEF and SIP writing; data analysis, use of data, and interpretation of RoL; school reviews, headteacher appraisal; impactful interventions and feedback, effective work scrutiny; effective monitoring of teaching and learning; improving progress of groups; 'beyond outstanding'.

Eileen is a highly experienced and passionate education professional who is currently working as a School Improvement Partner and mentor for Headteachers in a Multi Academy Trust. During a successful career, Eileen led a Catholic primary school to outstanding Ofsted judgements, and was the founding Principal of a large International School in Malaysia. In addition, Eileen qualified as an Ofsted inspector and was appointed as a National Leader in Education in 2012, to provide direct support to schools in difficulty on behalf of the DFE.

Eileen offers early headship advice and mentoring, and a wider range of leadership development for leaders at all levels. She can support schools in overall school improvement planning and implementation, with a strong focus on teaching and learning.

Penny Rabiger was a primary and secondary school teacher for 12 years. Since 2007, she has been supporting school leadership, working with social enterprises and charities. She was Director of Business Development and one of the founding team that set up The Key for School Leaders, Head of Membership at Challenge Partners, and Director of Engagement at the Finnish edtech resource, Lyfta.

Penny is a long-serving school governor and MAT trustee. She is a co-founder and trustee of The BAMEed Network, member of the Haringey BAME achievement group, an NFER associate, and a coach for the Leeds Beckett University Antiracist Schools Award. She is a PhD candidate researching antiracism, school leadership and governance.

Penny can offer support and challenge:

• Strengthening governance (Recruitment, induction, succession, EDI & antiracism, BAME achievement, strategic planning, governance reviews)

• Race and antiracism (Racial literacy, strategic planning  and whole-school antiracist strategy, understanding inherent bias, cultural capital & the curriculum, diverse recruitment, retention and staff development)

• Coaching for success (Strength-based support for leaders)

• INSET, CPD and conference curation (Sourcing & engaging diverse speakers, impactful workshop delivery, end-to-end design, delivery & debrief of CPD and conferences)

• Project management (Research, focus groups, strategic planning and bringing ideas & initiatives to fruition)

Charles Rice is an experienced Local Authority and independent School Improvement Partner and Inspector, currently in a freelance role supporting and monitoring the maintained schools in Barnet, and also continuing to be trained by and inspect for Ofsted.
In his recent Learning Network Inspector role he was accountable for the performance of all maintained secondary schools in Barnet, and responsible for developing and maintaining a secondary network across all secondary schools, including academies. In this role he left individual schools accurate in their self-evaluation and well-prepared for inspection, and the network professionally developed through meaningful Peer Enquiry sessions and well-planned training opportunities.
His role has also supported and been supported by the Teaching School Alliances, ensuring that the borough has been able to continue to adapt and develop effective relationships with all secondary schools in a rapidly changing context.  His work with Governing Bodies on HT/DHT appointments, HT appraisal, and undertaking their responsibilities, has been commended.  

Charles has also been involved in leading CPD programmes in and across schools, training whole school staff teams, and coaching individuals and groups, in both leadership and teaching. During his tenure the leadership capacity of Barnet Secondary schools has strengthened, as evident both in the % of schools that have been judged Good or better, and in raised achievement at KS4 and KS5.  A particular passion, which he is sometimes briefed to lead on, is the development of strong literacy practice and expertise across and within all subjects.

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Anne Roots has been the manager of Connect, The Network for Global Learning in Education (formerly NLSIN), and worked within Barnet's School Improvement service for over 20 years providing guidance and training for schools in embedding a global dimension to the curriculum, preparing bids, accessing funding and understanding the range of opportunities for schools to develop international links, partnerships and CPD activities.

She is a British Council Schools Ambassador, a UK Global Learning Association Consultant, Connecting Classrooms Through Global Learning Trainer and an assessor for a range of funded programmes. 

Anne delivers training on Middlesex University's BA Primary Education (QTS) course and has worked with the NQT leaders in local authorities to provide global learning training to support Teaching Standards.

Anne organises short-term Language Assistant placement programmes with universities in Spain and Germany and facilitates the on-line New York Global Scholars Programme linking schools all over the world through curriculum based collaboration.

The support Anne offers enables an outcomes focused approach underpinned by evaluation and monitoring processes that ensure good practice and sustainable impact at all times.

Global learning which provides a real-life teaching and learning approach and context can be an effective vehicle to address the requirements of the new Ofsted framework and help schools deliver a broader curriculum that will motivate, enhance and expand the learning experience for pupils.

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Kim Sanett has been the Headteacher of Foulds School for five years.  Having worked in a range of schools, in Barnet, Enfield and Hackney, Kim has experience of being a leader in schools of both high and low deprivation.   She uses a coaching approach to support leaders and in this way has supported leaders to improve.  She has experience of making rapid changes, whilst also taking the long standing team along.

Pav Saunders has experience of teaching in a number of schools, which includes secondary, middle, junior and primary. She is particularly interested in school improvement, leadership and management, staff development, teaching and learning and early years. Pav has been the headteacher of an outstanding primary school.  She was also a National Leader of Education (NLE) and has done school to school support work in schools facing challenging circumstances. She has extensive experience of leading Ofsted inspections. Pav has recently become an independent education consultant. She now leads training sessions and does consultancy work with a number of providers. She is an accredited lead facilitator with the National College and is currently delivering the leadership curriculum.
Pav can offer support in the following areas: Teaching and learning; Assessment for learning; Analysis of data; Monitoring and evaluation; Leadership training for middle and senior leaders; Governor effectiveness; School Self-evaluation; Performance management; Early Years; Working with parents and the community.

Jodi Schajer has been a Headteacher for 5 years, managing schools through a variety of changes leading to improved results. She is currently Headteacher of the Independent Jewish Day School - a top achieving school in Barnet.

Jodi has a proven track record of developing staff teams in order to improve standards, through mentoring and coaching. Jodi is a Key Stage Two moderator for Barnet and was  a Literacy Consultant.

Jodi can offer; coaching and developing senior and middle leaders, subject leaders, support for school leaders in improving teaching and learning and outcomes for children, implementing creative and connected curriculum and school development work at all levels. 

Stephanie Segal is an organisational consultant and coach, facilitator to leadership development programmes and action learning sets to Headteachers, Deputies, NHS and public sector staff. She has worked extensively in Education, Social Care, the NHS, Children, Young People and Families, Learning Disabilities, Domestic Violence, Safeguarding and Mental Health.

Stephanie is a visiting lecturer and tutor at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust on Strategic Leadership and Management in the Public Sector, Team Facilitation and Conflict Resolution, Refugee Care, Working With Groups and Supervision programmes. She is a qualified counsellor, has an MA in Consultation and the Organisation, a Psychoanalytic Approach and studied the Systemic Approach to Organisations, Children and Families (Tavistock Clinic/UEL). Stephanie’s MA dissertation focused on role consultation with a Headteacher and Deputy of a school experiencing difficulties, evaluating roles, interpersonal skills and staff group dynamics. Stephanie is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Member of ISPSO, ASIIP, Association for Coaching, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), BACP Registrant, BACP Coaching, EMCC UK and EMCC EIA Professional Designation at Senior Practitioner level.

Stephanie can offer support with leadership and management, coaching, safeguarding supervision, school staff engagement, managing difficult conversations and conflict.

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David Shakespeare is an education consultant who works with learners and teachers in individual schools and colleges, as well as with broader educational organisations - including many local authorities, various DfE programmes, the National Strategies, Science Learning Centres, the ‘learned’ societies, the Standards and Testing Agency, private companies and others.  He helps develop others in class, in training, and in providing CPD within and across schools; and is an evaluator of educational initiatives both in schools and in wider contexts.  David can offer support in the following areas: Development, training and facilitation of networks and mutual support between teachers and schools – such as through Peer Enquiry and network meetings; Development of classroom practice and teachers supporting others – through coaching, mentoring, paired observations and so on; Support for provision of science in primary and secondary school and college settings – in class, in schools, through training.

Jatin Sheth is currently the Deputy Head at Tudor School.  He leads teaching, learning and assessment across the school which includes spearheading KS1 and KS2 SATs.  Since his appointment in 2015, Fairway’s attainment outcomes have risen year-year-on, particularly strong in KS2.  Jatin also plays an integral part in children’s well-being; he is the school’s deputy designated safeguarding lead, communicates effectively with parents/carers and monitors effective provision at school on a daily basis.
 

Jatin specialises in raising standards in English and Maths, ensuring summative data correlates to the progress in children’s books. Through a rigorous cycle of monitoring, Jatin is able to identify staff that need support.  Jatin delivers masterclass lessons and carries out effective lesson observations which enable him to set teachers SMART targets. Children’s ongoing targets and end of year targets are regularly referred to through formal and informal meetings with teachers. Through staff meetings, Jatin is confident in engaging staff to adopt innovative strategies which are embedded with high expectations of children and staff.  Jatin has already delivered training and supported others Barnet schools as well as working alongside heads at SSIF Project conferences.

Following a career spent in private sector business development and marketing, Justin moved into the education sector over 20 years ago and has worked as a senior leader in 3 large secondary schools in Suffolk and Norfolk.

In 2017 Justin established his own business, Chameleon Training and Consultancy, designed to provide specialist marketing, income generation and bid writing services to the education sector.

A vastly experienced bid writer, Justin has secured over £7 million in additional income for schools, from a variety of sources including conventional grants and trust funds, commercial sponsorship and donations.
Chameleon Training and Consultancy has developed a suite of practical and innovative products, services and masterclasses to support school leaders nationally, from stand-alone  primary schools to large multi-academy trusts.  

Justin was awarded the Guardian/ISBL Marketing Award in 2015, became an ISBL Fellow in 2017 and is a member of the Institute of Fundraising.

 

Susan Sutton has 35 years’ experience in school improvement, having worked at a senior level in four local authorities and at a national level with the National strategies. Prior to this she was a secondary deputy head teacher. She has long standing experience as a SIP, link adviser and head of school improvement service in London, working with schools and settings across all phases. She has recent successful interim senior leadership experience in diverse schools nursery- 19 and can quickly establish excellent relationships with staff.  Susan holds NPQH and remains a serving Ofsted inspector, a trained coach and an Expert Governor. She currently works part time leading the school improvement and education services team in a London borough. Susan has a strong track record of improving outcomes in partner schools.

Susan can offer wide ranging consultancy support in most areas, including: Self-evaluation/ development planning; Ofsted preparation; leadership development; governance; data and pupil tracking; behaviour, attendance, inclusion, SEN; performance management systems; improving teaching quality/coaching; literacy development and assessment. Susan can offer school website reviews and has had long experience supporting governors to undertake head teacher performance management.

Sandra Teacher is a highly experienced educational consultant with over 20 years’ experience in leading Ofsted inspections.  Her inspection work has covered Early Years, primary, secondary and special schools and PRUs, and included quality assurance for inspection service providers. She is continuing her inspection work with Ofsted as an Early Years Inspector and is also an Education Adviser at the Department for Education.
She has wide cross-phase teaching and advisory experience and is a School Experience tutor and Lecturer in Education at a range of Teacher/training Institutions. She has a national role in Special Education; Early Years and Faith communities. She has been an External Adviser for the Performance Management of Headteachers, and an Advanced Skills Teacher assessor. She is a published writer of EYFS materials for parents and practitioners; of school self-evaluation materials and most recently guidance on promoting Fundamental British Values and The Prevent agenda, as well as a Safeguarding Toolkit for all types of educational settings.

Sandra is able to provide the following services to schools: school improvement reviews focusing on whole school effectiveness or aspects of provision chosen by the school; governance reviews; early years’ reviews; pupil premium reviews; headteacher appraisal; coaching for senior and middle leaders; support for school leaders in improving teaching and learning, including through joint lesson observations, and in the use of self-evaluation for continuous school improvement.
Support in achieving the requirements for the SEN Code of Practice including provisioning mapping and on measuring the impact of spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.

Lisa Walker is currently the Headteacher at Courtland Primary School which is based in Mill Hill. She has been in post for eleven years during which time she has taken the school from Good to Outstanding. Courtland is a one form entry school with a diverse population and changing demographics.  Lisa has experience of working with a strong Governing Body and has put systems in place to ensure they have a thorough understanding of their role. Lisa also has experience of mentoring Headteachers and Deputy Headteachers and offering peer support during LA school reviews. In the Autumn Term 2012 Lisa was Interim Headteacher at The Hyde School for three days a week, whilst also leading Courtland School.  During this secondment she was able to work closely with the LA to help stabilise a school which was experiencing difficulties. This experience of leading a school through a period of extreme change has enabled her to have a healthy respect for all staff members working under intense external pressure, whilst simultaneously having to raise standards. For the last few years Lisa also has experience of working with the LA as a BSIP. This involved conducting Attainment reviews, Learning walks, and general School Improvement.

Paul is an inspirational and energetic school improvement consultant. He has a passion for education with an excellent track record of supporting school leaders. Paul is committed to supporting schools in the UK and internationally, to build resilience and have clarity of direction. He is an experienced and highly successful primary headteacher and has worked in schools within a range of contexts. Paul has extensive experience of managing changes in school structures including successful federation and conversion to academy. He has been an Executive Headteacher and a CEO of a Multi Academy Trust.  He is a facilitator and assessor for the NPQ programmes.

Paul is a dynamic coach, consultant and mentor and a qualified Resilient Leaders Elements (RLE) consultant and coach. He strives to model integrity. His work as a learning network inspector and Ofsted inspector enables him to support and challenge schools. Paul enjoys providing high quality professional development to schools through coaching, mentoring and training. 

Paul supports new Headteachers and provides performance management for senior leaders. He has achieved a distinction in the Professional Qualification for School Inspection and has achieved NPQH. 

Paul is committed to nurturing talent. He is an excellent communicator and is passionate about working with Headteachers, Governors, leadership teams and teaching staff to achieve the very best for children.

Michael has extensive experience as a headteacher working in London schools, including ten years leading a school in Barnet. He is a qualified and experienced coach working in the educational and business sectors. His two most recent headships were in all through schools and working across primary and secondary is a particular area of Michael’s expertise.

Michael can offer support in all aspects of educational leadership and specialises in the following areas:

• leadership coaching

• student coaching

• strategic development

• curriculum design

• developing school culture

Paul Wiggins was the Headteacher of Barnfield School, which has more than 50% of its pupils on free school meals.  He has led the school to two Outstanding Ofsted reports. He has worked as a School Improvement Partner for Barnet, supporting heads in reviews of attainment, setting priorities and school improvement planning, as well as supporting governors with Headteacher performance management.  As a local leader of education, working for the London Challenge, he supported Headteachers in Brent and Hillingdon who were either new to the role or in challenging circumstances. He was a founder member and for several years Chair of Barnet’s Excellence in Clusters’ schools, which gave highly effective support to those schools in Barnet which were in more deprived circumstances and contributed to his expertise and experience in the areas of vulnerable children and children facing barriers to their learning. 

Malcolm is a highly motivated and successful educational consultant, trainer, and coach with a strong track record of leading and transforming schools.

He is a Lead Ofsted Inspector with the Qualification for School Inspectors gained through Middlesex University and Tribal in July 2015. He has worked for both Ofsted and the Department for Education (DfE), as an Ofsted Inspector and an Educational Adviser respectively, since 2015. He is a Consultant School Improvement Partner for Haringey Education Partnership and also for a number of other authorities and multi academy trusts across the country.  Malcolm therefore has considerable experience of working directly with schools and supporting them in the raising of standards. During a long career in education, he has nearly twenty years of experience as a headteacher of three different schools, two of which were in particularly challenging circumstances.  He is an EMCC Accredited Coach.  Malcolm is also a self-employed school leader, adviser and consultant and the managing director of LeadingSchs2Success Ltd., an educational consultancy company. He is passionate about education and its ability to enable children to achieve beyond their dreams.

Malcolm offers a wide range of services for schools including headteacher, senior and middle leadership development, subject area audits, whole school reviews, SEND reviews, reading development and training for governors.

everal years Chair of Barnet’s Excellence in Clusters’ schools, which gave highly effective support to those schools in Barnet which were in more deprived circumstances and contributed to his expertise and experience in the areas of vulnerable children and children facing barriers to their learning. 

Having taught for many years in a breadth of settings across all primary ages Louise has experienced a wide variety of primary schools. Over the years as a Headteacher, she successfully managed challenges including budget deficit, staffing concerns and anxious parents. Most importantly, her schools were dedicated to a diverse and busy life for pupils, a curriculum designed to excite, challenge and support everyone, to find strengths and to build aspirations. Ofsted recognised this academic excellence, enriched through sport, music and the Arts and nurtured through golden values, as outstanding.

As a Learning Network Inspector for 6 years, Louise enjoyed the privilege of working with school leaders to monitor, challenge and to support their schools too, to prioritise targets for the next steps and to grow the expertise of their teams. 

Now, as a freelance consultant, Louise can offers senior and middle leadership support to find effective strategies for school improvement, curriculum development and confident subject leadership.