The National Education Trust was founded by Roy Blatchford, who has worked in nearly every sector of education from the classroom to Whitehall. During the past thirty years he has been teacher, headteacher, school governor, government adviser, director of various educational charities, Ofsted inspector, national trainer and keynote speaker. Roy was Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools in England, with lead responsibility for school improvement and for the national inspection of good and outstanding schools. More recently, he has helped establish inspection and school review systems in New York, Dubai and Mumbai. Roy is a Visiting Fellow at Oxford Brookes University.
Roy has served with the Arts Council, has worked in a voluntary capacity within both HM Prison Service and the National Health Service, and was Convenor for many years to the Thames Valley Health Authority. In 1993 he was invited by the Secretary of State for Education to be a Member of the School Curriculum Assessment Authority and has advised successive governments, most recently as Deputy Chair of the Teacher's Standards Review. Roy is also the author/ editor of over 150 books for pupils, teachers and parents including English Essentials, Outsiders, Managing the Secondary School, The Effective Teacher and Sparkling Classrooms.
| Associate Directors |
David Birch is an Associate Director.
David taught English in schools in London and Oxfordshire before becoming a secondary headteacher in Devon for 12 years. Since then he has been a School Improvement Partner with six schools in the South West, and a freelance consultant working on school evaluation and improvement projects nationally. Much of his recent work has focused on improving teaching and learning and leadership in sixth forms. He also writes and leads training courses, and is an A level English examiner and subject consultant for Ofqual. |
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Kate Dethridge is an Associate Director.
Kate leads Churchend Primary Academy (converted Feb 1st 2011) and has completed 13 years in this Headship. The school has twice been graded 'Outstanding' by Ofsted (2005 & 2008) and the school is a National Support School. Kate has been a National Leader of Education for four years and was awarded a Fellowship with the National College last year. She has completed four short term Executive Headships. She has been a School Improvement Partner and worked with the National College to assess S.I.P. candidates. She has also been a consultant Headteacher on a National College programme for Headteachers new to the profession. Kate has been an additional OfSTED inspector and is a member of the OfSTED Primary Headteachers Reference Group. Kate is a panel member of the Bureaucracy Reference Group at the Department for Education and was part of Lord Bew's panel that reviewed Key Stage 2 Assessment & Testing in 2011. |
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Juliette Jackson is an Associate Director.
Juliette is currently the Executive Headteacher of two primary schools in the London borough of Camden and also works as a School Improvement Partner for various London boroughs. She is an accredited Ofsted Inspector. Over the past few years Juliette has led three schools out of Special Measures and moved one school from inadequate to outstanding. |
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Pamela Matty is an Associate Director.
Pamela read Drama and Maths at University which inspired a great interest in maths education. In 1989 Pamela led the maths team in Birmingham, developing extended maths training programmes with the Open University, city wide maths events raising the profile of maths education and a successful Guinness Book of Records maths event with Johnny Ball. In 1995 Pamela joined Grove School in Handsworth as deputy head teacher. Two years later she became head teacher of this inner city school with 700 pupils.
Pamela describes her work at Grove as a tremendous privilege, working with such inspirational teachers and pupils. Grove is proud of its success in interpreting educational practice and developing specialisms in maths and music. Pamela is a member of the City of Birmingham Children's University Charitable Trust Status Steering Group, has supported the Birmingham Science Museum in developing interactive exhibits, has written a wide range of articles and materials for Scholastic Education and other publishers. She speaks regularly at conferences and events as well as hosting visitors at Grove. Always looking for the next challenge, the curriculum has been judged to be outstanding at the last two inspections, Pamela and the team at Grove are looking to develop the Grove Thinking Curriculum into a new dimension. |
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Laurence Pitt is an Associate Director.
Laurence has been headteacher of Ashley Down Junior School in Bristol since 2004. The school has been judged 'outstanding' by Ofsted. The school is expanding and was redesignated as a Primary School from September 2010, taking on a new 210 pupil-place building in the locality. Laurence has worked as a Consultant Leader, and then Local Leader of Education in Bristol since 2007 and has coordinated the New and Acting Headteachers' Induction Programme for the city. In 2010 he became a National Leader of Education and is involved nationally in curriculum development in new schools with NET. |
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| Policy |
NET's policy adviser is Tony Ashmore.
Tony followed a PhD in Chemical Education by teaching at school and university level, becoming Registrar and Director of Education and Qualifications of a major professional body. He is also a consultant on professional regulation, governance and organisational development in the not for profit sector. |
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| Early Years |
Louise Jackson National Projects Leader Early Years Matter
Qualified and experienced in primary and early years education, special education and early intervention, Louise has led a range of successful partnership projects working across early years settings, schools and children's centres. Since 2002 Louise has worked in Herefordshire Local Authority, as an Advisory Teacher with responsibility for the delivery of Early Years training programmes and project management. Louise joined NET in September 2011 as the National Projects Leader for the DFE funded project Early Years Matter.
For more information on Early Years Matter click here. |
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Rachel Kennedy is our Early Years Administrative Officer
After graduating from Roehampton University with a Bachelors degree in Education with Childhood and Society, Rachel went on to work at the national charities '4Children' and the 'Terrence Higgins Trust' as an Intern in their policy departments. Rachel also has direct experience of working with children as a nanny, tutor and nursery assistant. |
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| Schools / Office Team |
Marc Rowland is the National Education Trust Business and Development Manager
Marc has been National Education Trust Business and Development Manager since March 2007, having previously spent 5 years at Ofsted in a number of project management roles. Marc is responsible for the Trust's administrative management of school based events and courses, policy engagement, media, marketing, communications, finance and HR. Marc also works on partnership and relationship development with key stakeholders across the education sector.
Read about Marc's support for 'Starthrowers' and 'Royal Surrey Appeal' |
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Steph Moon is our Events and Marketing Officer.
Steph recently graduated from the University of York with a Bachelors degree in Psychology. She has previously worked for Explore Learning and Kumon, and has volunteered in local schools and at Macmillan Cancer Support before completing an internship at the National Education Trust. Steph will be joining the Teach First 2012 cohort to teach in a primary school next year. |
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Takako Yeung is a NET Intern
Takako graduated from Oxford University with a Bachelors degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. She then completed a Secondary PGCE in Social Science with Humanities at the Institute of Education, London and worked as a secondary school teacher for 7 years. Takako is currently studying for an MA in Public Policy at King's College and hopes to pursue a new career. |
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