Excellent
course. Best I have been on – a
moving journey in more ways than one.
Denise Travis
Wollescote Primary School
Thank you for an inspirational
6 days. It is the best course I have attended and
I feel fortunate
to have experienced it.
Steph Evans
Highate Primary
Dudley
The most enjoyable,
most useful course I have attended in 30 years of
teaching! It has renewed my enthusiasm
and made me realise why I wanted to teach. Thank
you.
Sue Hanning
St. Ed. And St. John’s School
What can I say but “WOW”. I’m
still reeling from the last two days of your wonderful
training and the impact it has had on our lead learners.
It has been a real privilege to be able to take part
in the training and share in the Accelerated Learning
journey with you and the lead learners. Thank you
for all your hard work, energy and enthusiasm and
commitment, which all shine through in everything
you do – you really do ‘walk the talk’.
Janice Graham
Deputy Director
DpfA EAZ
Nicky Anastasiou
Nicky Anastasiou brings a wealth of experience to her training programmes on behalf of Alite. She is held in high regard as a developer and her courses are based on the notion that educators need to know how we learn. She is passionate about Learning and improving life in schools for pupils and teachers and she says she continuously learns from the experiences of bringing up her own two school aged children, Alexander and Zoe.
Nicky began her teaching career at a girl's secondary school in Elephant & Castle. She then spent an eventful 3 years living and working in Greece, where she had some memorable adventures including dodging a sword-wielding mountain bandit on one occasion, and a charge from horseback riders on another. When Nicky returned to the UK she took up a post in the country's first Community Comprehensive in Liverpool. This was considered at the time to be the flagship for community education, and served an area notorious for its social deprivation.
From there Nicky progressed to a school in St.Helens on Merseyside, then onto the Ealing LEA, as an advisory teacher then on to Adviser and Inspector.
During her time in Ealing Nicky worked on a daily basis at all levels and with schools in every sector. She set up a range of innovative projects that received both local and national recognition. She was instrumental in developing accelerated learning across the authority via training, policy formulation, communication systems and specialist support work with individual schools developing accelerated learning. One of her schools received national recognition via the Queen's Award and I.I.P. for outstanding work on teaching and learning.
Nicky has solid experience of working with schools identified by OFSTED as having serious weaknesses. For her, Accelerated learning has been the vehicle to improve teaching and learning on their action plans and the work involved has incorporated whole school and classroom practices and role of senior managers in moving the developments forward.
As the Senior Consultant managing and delivering on behalf of Alite the prestigious School Improvement and Lead Learner Programme, Nicky is involved with a large number of LEAs, EAZs and EiC projects that aim to transform Learning and Teaching. From this work with hundreds of teachers she is able to bring varied concrete examples of how they have made significant changes and improvements in raising achievement, motivation and standards.
One consistent comment that teachers make is that 'their experience with Nicky boosts their confidence and love of teaching children again'.