We have a dedicated team of experienced leaders who are available to provide wide-ranging and bespoke support at whole school, department, team and individual levels. We will work in partnership with you to identify appropriate strategies and interventions to support you in addressing your key priorities, developing your staff and improving student outcomes.
Details of our NLE and SLEs are listed below, to view their full profile please click on their names.
If you would like to discuss your requirements, or arrange to deploy one of our team, please contact our Teaching School Manager, Cathy Hillier, by email: cygnustsa@whs.bucks.sch.uk, or by telephone, via Reception (during term time) on 01494 523961.
We look forward to hearing from you.
National Leader of Education
Sharon Cromie
Areas of Expertise and Support Offered:
- Leadership
- School-to-school support
- Business management
- MAT Transition
- MAT Leadership
Specialist Leaders of Education
Charlotte Fell
Areas of Expertise and Support Offered:
- Initial Teacher Training in the secondary sector
- Mathematics teaching from Key Stages 3 to 5.
John Houston
Areas of Expertise and Support Offered:
- Progress Tracking
- Data Analysis
- Key Stage 4 Learning & Teaching
- Mentoring and Coaching
Sally Jarrett
Areas of Expertise and Support Offered:
- Leadership and management
- Pastoral Care
- Safeguarding
- Behaviour management
- Learning & Teaching
- Continuing Professional Development
- NQT, NQT + 1, Overseas Trained Teacher and new staff induction, support and development
- Early Career Framework
- Operations and Systems
- Dance / PE in Key Stages 3, 4 and 5.
Vikki Jonsmyth-Clarke
Areas of Expertise and Support Offered:
- Behaviour management
- Metacognition
- Flipped Learning
- Learner characteristics and behaviours
- Most Able
- Stretching and challenging students
- Drama - all Key Stages
- Arts provision
- Extra-curricular provision
- Intervention, coaching and mentoring (students and staff)
Elizabeth
Areas of Expertise and Support Offered:
- MFL Specialist offering departmental support to improve MFL leadership, management, uptake and student outcomes
- • Pastoral, care, support and guidance
- • Mental Health leadership, management, structure, services
Richard Nowak-Scase
Areas of Expertise and Support Offered:
- Curriculum design Years 7-13
- Timetable construction
- Nova-T6
Dr David Palmer
Areas of Expertise and Support Offered:
- Financial Management
- Academy Conversion and Multi-Academy Trust Transition
- Strategic financial and resource planning
- Financial reporting to school leaders and Governors
- Value for money purchasing and contract renewals
- Fundraising, bid management and support, including developing the culture of giving by parents
- Marketing and promotion to protect student numbers
- Planning and implementing staff re-structuring programmes
- Governor and school leader briefing on academy conversion / multi-academy trusts
- Infrastructure planning for academy conversion (financial systems and processes, personnel and payroll, contract management)
- Moving from a single academy to a multi-academy trust
Jack Rushton
Areas of Expertise and Support Offered:
- Learning and Teaching Pedagogy
- Pupil Premium
- Assessment
- History
Jo Walker
Areas of Expertise and Support Offered:
- Teaching for Mastery across all Key Stages.
- supporting schools to develop the teaching in their departments to improve student outcomes.
Rachel Walters
Areas of Expertise and Support Offered:
- Maths Mastery
- Key Stage 2 / 3 Transition
- Induction, mentoring and development of / for trainee, overseas and newly trained teachers
- Support and training for primary mathematics teachers on a range of topics including Bar Modelling and representations.
