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NSCoPSE Committee

Chair: Marilyn Tew Email Marilyn Tew

Marilyn has a history in secondary education reaching back to the ‘70s. She has worked as a classroom teacher, head of department, assistant head and freelance consultant. Her current role is Development Director of Antidote, a charitable organization that works with whole school communities to create the best possible learning environments by addressing relationships, communication and systems in the school. She is an author who has published several texts on emotional literacy and the use of circle time in secondary schools.

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Vice Chair: John Rees Email John Rees www.pshesolutions.co.uk

John is passionately committed to school improvement and reducing health inequalities by through professional development to enhance the personal development of children and young people.

Having taught for 12 years, John was seconded to Devon’s ‘Healthy Schools’ team. Since 1996, John was responsible for transforming the APAUSE www.apause.com from research project into an effective and sustainable, multi-agency programme across England, Wales and Eire with evidence of educational gain and health benefit which is unique in Europe.

In 2006, funding cuts enabled John to become a freelance PSHE trainer and consultant; relocating to South Yorkshire. John is now Regional Advisor in Yorkshire & Humber and National Assessor for the National PSHE CPD Programme, a Regional Subject Advisor for the PSHE Association and working with the Healthy Schools teams in Hull, Gloucestershire, Sheffield, Swindon and Tower Hamlets but also with experience of international consultancy in Russia, and more recently, China.

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Secretary:   Allan Foster         Email Allan Foster

Allan is the County Adviser for PSHE in Kent, leading the Curriculum Team of advisers and teacher advisers working with Primary and Secondary schools supporting a full range of CPD, consultancy and intervention activities. He works with colleagues across all phases, supporting the development of PSHE, Citizenship and Healthy Schools. Currently a major part of his role is to work strategically with QCA, CfBT and other organisations to support the implementation of the New Secondary Curriculum across Kent. Recently, Allan has been actively involved with the National PSHE Advisory Group at the National Children’s Bureau, and with the development of the PSHE Association.

Allan taught for many years in North Tyneside, where he was a founder member of NAPCE (North East) and was seconded as an Advisory Teacher for PSHE and prepared local schools for the introduction of Citizenship in 2002.

Allan has a particular interest in Curriculum Development, Race Equality, and the global dimension of Citizenship. He has traveled widely, and has experienced teaching and working with schools and colleges in France, India, USA and South Africa.

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Membership Secretary: Kay Lord     Email Kay Lord

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Kay spent 20 years as a secondary teacher, followed by 15 years as a local authority adviser where she had responsibility for PSHE, Citizenship, Healthy Schools and Physical Education. Qualifying as an Ofsted inspector in 1994 she worked as part of her LA inspection team and following her retirement in 2003 spent two years as an independent Ofsted inspector for Section 10 inspections, completing her section 5 training in 2005.

Kay was an additional inspector with Ofsted in 2000-2001 undertaking inspections as part of the Ofsted SRE survey and is a member of the Sex Education Forum Advisory Group and also Secretary of the National Health Education Group (NHEG) therefore maintaining good links.

Her recent work has included the EMIE Beacon Council Healthy Schools Dissemination project and she is currently one of the Regional Subject Advisers in the North West for the subject specific support for PSHE Education.

Kay is also NSCoPSE's representative at the Anti-Bullying Alliance

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Treasurer: Jane Lees Email Jane Lees

Jane's main interests are curriculum development and training for PSD. During the
last decade she has contributed to the development of the PSHE framework and
also to the new Personal Wellbeing programmes of study.

Jane has drawn on this experience to assist countries in eastern Europe, the middle East and central Asia to write their own curriculum frameworks for Lifeskills Education, and to train their trainers and teachers to deliver them.

Jane's forte is training in personal and social development through group work; She is currently PSHE CPD lead in one LA and supporting several others. Her other career-long interest is SRE and Jane is now Chair of the Sex Education Forum; Jane is also an associate trainer for the fpa.

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Colin Day               Email Colin Day

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Lorraine King     Email Lorraine King

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Celia Moore         Email Celia Moore

Celia trained as a secondary Physical Educational and Biology teacher. After spending many years at home bringing up a family of four, being a foster carer and adopting a son with special needs, she re-trained as a special needs teacher.

Much of her teaching career was in a high achieving Roman Catholic High School where she was an Assistant Head. She has a governor at a special school, and was Vice-chair for many years. She led a four-year national project on Transfer and Transition for ASCL and The Gatsby Foundation, and participated in the recent DCSF Transfer and Transition project.

She has had articles published in several journals and written a chapter in Starting Science … Again?: Making Progress in Science Learning.

Celia is presently the Cross-phase County Adviser for Personal and Social Development in Suffolk.

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Clare Smith     Email Clare Smith

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