Opening Doors to Ambitious Primary English: Pitching high and including all

About Angela JenkinsAnn MercerBob CoxCecil MercerJulie SargentLeah CrawfordPaige Pullen

Bob Cox is an independent educational consultant writer and teacher coach who works nationally and internationally to support outstanding learning. Bob has been working with clusters of schools and local authorities to apply 'opening doors' strategies to raise standards in English and to make links between quality texts and quality writing. Before that Bob taught English for 23 years. Leah Crawford has 15 years' experience as a local authority English inspector/adviser working across both the primary and secondary phases and now leads the Thinktalk education consultancy. She is an associate tutor for King's College London's Let's Think in English cognitive acceleration programme and also works in support of a European Erasmus project on the assessment of thinking skills. Angela Jenkins has extensive experience in English education and school improvement having worked as an adviser in three different local authorities and two multi-academy trusts in the last 20 years. As well as providing link adviser support for individual schools she also took strategic responsibility for English and assessment. Recently Angela has worked as an independent consultant providing specialist advice and support for the development of exceptional curriculum pedagogy and assessment both in primary and secondary settings. She is currently co-chair of the National Association of Advisers in English (NAAE). ulie Sargent has over 10 years' experience of working across the whole of the primary sector as an English Consultant. This includes developing bespoke CPD for individual schools multi-academy trusts and local authorities. She has a particular interest in Early Years/KS1 and using high-quality texts to promote and develop all aspects of English.