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Who are we?

As Heads of Departments' and Senior Teachers, we often felt that the professional development of our staff was limited by poor quality training courses offered by the LEA or Awarding Bodies, many private training courses looked interesting, but were often too expensive to justify!

Over 10 years ago, we started to run courses of our own, and soon branched out into working for the Awarding Bodies as Principal Examiners and Moderators.

Over the past 4 years, we have run courses or carried out consultancy throughout the UK and abroad, including African and Middle Eastern states, as well as Mainland Europe and Ireland.

The mainstay of our business is training and consultancy, we offer ICT software and hardware training across both PC and Mac platforms, utilising all major software packages (and some not so major).

We are also keen to do more than just teach software driving skills, we want you to be able to use your new skills to improve the teaching and learning in your centres. To do this we offer a full consultancy service, carrying out a needs analysis, training and follow-up recommendations.

	Dave Parry
Dave is a freelance education consultant, with particular skills in ICT and vocational education. He is currently supporting a college as webmaster and Curriculum Team Leader and continues to write for various examination boards and publishers, he is co-author of a number of extremely successful GCSE ICT and Business text books. He has been heavily involved in the ICT, On-screen Assessment Project with QCA. He has been a Principal examiner for a number of GNVQ units for OCR and presently carries out consultancy and training for the Learning and Skills Development Agency, Edexcel, Mill Wharf and other national bodies, both here and abroad. He was, for 10 years, Head of Technology in an "outstandingly successful" school. He is a leader and instigator of initiatives, with a proven track record of following these initiatives to their successful conclusion.
	Martin Barrall
Martin has worked in education since 1974. with Advisors, Teachers, Government agencies, students, and pupils from all key stages. Recent work has been with CEA, TimeLine Training, and Herts. CC, Hodders, Pearsons, Channel 4.NOF work with teachers on the ICT initiative, in primary, middle and secondary schools across the country.Specialising in software training for digital design packages, consultations in Design and Technology and Art, course planning, examining moderating and advice. Advising on room layout, equipment purchase, machine training, materials use and advising on curriculum. Recently trained for OFSTED Inspection in Design and Technology
	Dean Weston
Dean is a Mac expert, he has been working on Apple machines and PCs for over 12 years. As well as being a professional photographer, he is a Desk Top Publisher and web designer, with many books and sites to his name. In recent years he has been teaching ICT to adults, and helping to develop innovative teaching strategies in colleges, this has included work on a national pilot for assessing art work through the use of ICT, whilst developing an online exhibition of students' work.
Associates
	Wendy Freer
Wendy is freelance Education Consultant specialising in ICT. She has taught in primary and secondary schools and has over ten years experience of training adults to use ICT. She has worked as a Key Stage 3 National Strategy ICT consultant for several LEAs and also has a wealth of experience in ICT consultancy and training for primary phase teachers and support staff. Wendy is particularly excited about using digital video and animation in the classroom. She has also had a lot success in helping teachers to tackle the more challenging areas of the ICT curriculum such as control technology, modelling, datalogging and web design.
We also employ a large number of associates who are highly qualified and experienced in their specialist fields. These include: Child Psychology Special Needs Education Infant and Primary Specialists Health and Social Care West African Arts, crafts and music CADCAM Work related Learning and Enterprise Science
Our Specialist team are often drawn from: James deWinter - Science Scott Forbes - PE, Football Coaching Diane Spencer - ICT Viv Milne - ICT Joanna Parry - Early Years, KS1 and KS2, Adult Education, TAs Kristin Dockar - Psychology Felix Cobbson - African Studies Sue Donaldson -Leisure and Recreation, Travel and Tourism Katrin Trigg - Art and Design, Early Years John Allen - Vocational and work-related learning

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Who are we?

Dave Parry

Martin Barrall

Dean Weston

Associates

Wendy Freer

Our Specialist team are often drawn from:

John Allen - Vocational and work-related learning