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David Wright is the former owner of Paint Pots Nurseries, an award-winning group of 11 daycare settings based in Southampton. David has over 30 years’ experience of Early Years. Amongst his many roles, David acts as an advisor to the Department of Education and the National Association of Headteachers. He is a board member of the World Forum on Early Care and Education (ECE) and a long-time member of the World Forum Men in ECE working group, an Early Years ambassador, author, broadcaster, commentator, presenter, consultant, TEDx speaker and trainer. In 2022, he was the recipient of a national lifetime achievement award from Nursery World magazine.
Twitter / X: @Mr_Paintpots
Sue Palmer, a former head teacher, has written many books, articles and TV programmes about literacy. While researching Toxic Childhood (Orion, 2006 and 2015) – her first book about child development in the modern world – she discovered the importance of early childhood care and education. Her subsequent involvement in many campaigns for children’s rights led to a listing in Who’s Who as a 'childhood campaigner'. Sue was Chair of the Scottish Play Commission, served on the Scottish Government’s Early Years Task Force and is now Chair of Upstart Scotland, a campaign for a play-based kindergarten stage for three- to seven-year-olds.
Haven is the founder of the field of Neural Story Science and worked with DoD DARPA to determine the cognitive neurology of how stories exert influence. He serves as a story consultant to departments in various governmental science agencies (Navy, DoD, EPA, NASA, NOAA, and NPS) as well as for numerous corporations, nonprofits, international governments, and educational organizations and was selected as a featured presenter at multiple Aspen Ideas Fests. Haven has won 20 major awards for his writing and performance storytelling.
Helen is a Montessori directress, Certified Clay Conversationalist and TEFL teacher. She operates as an education consultant, having worked with children, families and educational organisations for 25 years.
Helen facilitates the understanding and use of the English language in a creative setting, empowering children and adults to express themselves and share their stories using the medium of clay.
Helen is skilled in the creation of curricula using narrative as a foundation: she created the framework and initial lesson plans of the empathy-focused Think Equal curriculum which was recognised with a WISE award for innovation and the addressing of global educational challenges, and which has been implemented worldwide resulting in increased well-being for tens of thousands of children.
Helen is also an author. She wrote the book, Using Stories to Support Children in the Early Years alongside a number of colleagues, and also contributed chapters to Developing Empathy in the Early Years: A Guide for Practitioners.
Helen’s work with education, with story, and her recent clay studies have confirmed her belief in the importance of holding space for children and adults to express themselves in a unique and intentional manner, thereby facilitating personal growth and learning.
Evan Kidd studied an undergraduate degree in psychology and completed a PhD on children's language acquisition. His research focuses on how children learn language and on how adults use and understand language. Part of this research investigates the role of play in learning, with a focus on pretend (or 'symbolic' play). Evan is currently a Professor of Linguistics at the Australian National University.
Jenny Mosley is a national and international educational consultant, author and publisher. Based in the UK, with 50 years of experience of working in schools. Jenny has developed her ‘Golden Model’ approach for Early Years, Primary and Secondary schools - interweaving rafts of key ideas promoting staff and pupil wellbeing, listening systems, positive behaviour, respectful relationships and calmer lunchtimes and playtimes. With the aim of creating safe learning communities where all children and adults feel valued, respected and listened to, Jenny is in great demand for her inspiring talks and motivational workshops. Jenny’s key areas of expertise include positive staffrooms, classrooms, dining halls and playgrounds. All of Jenny’s systems promote wellbeing in schools. Her ‘Five Wells for Wellbeing’ were adopted by the National College for School Leadership, UK. Jenny has taught MEds in Education at two universities and her work has been featured many times in the press and on the BBC. Jenny travels tirelessly to work with staff and children in schools across the UK and internationally. More recently, Jenny has, post Covid, created therapeutic online training resources aimed at boosting wellbeing. Schools can now access easily her support for positive relationships, respectful school communities, speaking and really listening to each other and, importantly, fun, games and joy in school.
Sue Palmer, a former primary headteacher, is a literacy specialist and author of books on child development, notably ‘Toxic Childhood’, ’21st Century Boys’ and ’21st Century Girls’. Research for ‘Upstart: the case for raising the school starting age and providing what the under-sevens really need’ (Floris, 2016) inspired the Upstart Scotland campaign(www.upstart.scot).
During a long career as a freelance literacy specialist she wrote over 250 books, software programs and TV scripts on various aspects of literacy, and many hundreds of articles for the educational and national press. She has also provided courses for teachers throughout the UK and around the world, and acted as a consultant to the National Literacy Trust, the Basic Skills Agency, the DfE and the BBC.
In recent years, Sue has been Chair of the Scottish Play Commission, served on the Scottish Government’s Early Years Task Force and is now chair of Upstart Scotland. She is thrilled to be listed in Who’s Who and Debrett’s People of Today as a ‘childhood campaigner’ and has twice been named among the 40 most influential educationists in London, whichgives her particular pleasure since she lives in Edinburgh.
A Churchill Fellow with degrees from Oxford and London Universities, and an honorary doctorate from Edge Hill University, Tim is a former director of the Children’s Play Council (now Play England).
Tim has just published his new book ‘Urban Playground: How Child-Friendly Planning and Design Can Save Cities’ and we are very excited to read it!
He is also the author of ‘No Fear: Growing Up in a Risk-Averse Society’ which the New York Times called “a handbook for the movement for freer, riskier play.”
Dr. Suzanne Zeedyk is a research scientist fascinated by babies’ innate capacity to connect. Based at the University of Dundee (Scotland), within the School of Psychology since 1993. Her academic career began when she completed her PhD at Yale University, USA.
In 2011, Suzanne stepped away from a full-time academic post to establish an independent training enterprise. Its aim to help the public understand science discoveries about the importance of emotional connection for human health and happiness.
Over 40,000 people have attended her speaking events, and she reaches over 50,000 people a week on social media. She works internationally with organisations keen to think more deeply about fostering connection, compassion and resilience.
In 2014, Suzanne broadened her reach by founding the organization connected baby working to help parents and professionals use of the science of connection. Relationships matter – as much for human brains as for human hearts. Suzanne’s core aspiration continues to be strengthening awareness of the decisions we take about caring for our children — because those choices are integrally connected to our vision for the kind of society we wish to build.
Laura Henry-Allain MBE is an award-winning international storyteller, educationalist producer and consultant.
She is the creator of the well-loved, award-winning, JoJo and Gran Gran global series, developed and produced by CBeebies, and is the series producer. Laura has a new children’s animation that is currently in development.
Laura has worked with several global brands, including Paramount, Mattel, Moonbug, Hasbro, John Lewis, Comic Relief and Bafta.
Her bestselling children's books include My Skin, Your Skin and My Family, Your Family, and Maya and Marley, which centres on an adventure playground.
Laura is a board member of the Children’s Media Foundation and vice president of The British Association of Early Childhood Education. She is also a patron of the Grenada Community Library, mentor to the Grenfell Memorial Quilt, an expert commissioner on the Raising the Nation Play Commission national inquiry into play and the creator and presenter of the podcast My Words, My Book.
Find Laura on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and BlueSky - @LauraHAllain
Ruth works as a trainer, consultant, author, speaker and thought leader with a specialist focus on how creative strategies can nurture our learning and leadership development.
Ruth set up the award winning network for the arts and early childhood sectors, Earlyarts, in 2002 with a vision to embed excellent creative leadership in many schools and settings across the UK and the Middle East. To achieve this, Earlyarts works in collaboration with artists and educators to train around 1,000 early childhood professionals each year.
Through Earlyarts consultancy practice, Ruth has worked with major international clients such as Early Years International, Infinite Learning, Sharjah Museums Department, UCL Qatar, Independent Schools Association, Arts Council England, Arts Council Ireland, Department of Education, Department of Culture.
A former teacher, accredited relational dynamics coach, folk violinist and British Paragliding Team member, Ruth lives in Yorkshire with her two children and spends any free time in the hills paragliding, mountain biking, puddle-splashing and generally having as much fun as possible before tea.
Mine is an award-winning author, lecturer and trainer. She has worked in the field of early childhood education and care for over 17 years. Mine is the winner of the Nursery Management Today (NMT) Top 5 Most Inspirational People in Childcare Award.
Founder of the Cache Endorsed Learning Programme, ‘Applying Neuroscience to Early Intervention.’ Mine is currently collaborating with the Metropolitan police force, undertaking independent research which explores the connection adverse childhood experiences (ACE’s) and criminality.
She is also undertaking a PhD in early childhood education and neuroscience to develop her work in the complex and challenging subject of infant brain development. Her key objective is to bridge the gap between neuroscience and early years discourse and practice. She hopes that her research will provide the necessary evidence to seek solutions to this persistent issue, with the ultimate goal of enhancing provision for babies, children and young adults.
Matt Glover has been a teacher, principal, and educational consultant for over 30 years. He is the author and co-author of many Heinemann titles including I Am Reading, Engaging Young Writers, Projecting Possibilities for Writers, Already Ready, and Watch Katie and Matt…Sit Down and Teach Up, a video- enhanced eBook.
Matt was also co-editor with Ellin Oliver Keene of a best-selling collection of essays, The Teacher You Want to Be.
An international literacy consultant, Matt frequently speaks on topics related to nurturing writers of all ages, early reading, and supporting children’s intellectual development.
Sarah Kingham has been a teacher for more than 30 years, working in 3 London boroughs, a shire county and abroad in a variety of roles, including Primary English Advisory teacher, Deputy Head of a large primary school, a teacher in a Nursery School and more recently an Early Years Adviser.
She is a published author, a National Keynote speaker, a member of the All Party Parliamentary group for the first 1001 Critical Days and founder of a ground breaking early years literacy programme, Readit2.
Sarah is a passionate advocate for the very best for all children, although her expertise lies wholeheartedly in what happens in the pre-school years - she champions the importance of secure attachment in the first few years of a child’s life. Sarah has had the professional fortune to visit both Finland and Reggio Emilia on week long study tours. Her impressively successful and innovative reading method, Readit2, trains adults to inspire children to love to read and learn. Targeted at the 2-5 year old age group, the programme is comprised of a daily one-to-one reading experience fostering an emotional attachment with the reader, books and learning. www.readit2.org.
Mine is an award-winning author, lecturer and trainer. She has worked in the field of early childhood education and care for over 17 years. Mine is the winner of the Nursery Management Today (NMT) Top 5 Most Inspirational People in Childcare Award.
Founder of the Cache Endorsed Learning Programme, ‘Applying Neuroscience to Early Intervention.’ Mine is currently collaborating with the Metropolitan police force, undertaking independent research which explores the connection adverse childhood experiences (ACE’s) and criminality.
She is also undertaking a PhD in early childhood education and neuroscience to develop her work in the complex and challenging subject of infant brain development. Her key objective is to bridge the gap between neuroscience and early years discourse and practice. She hopes that her research will provide the necessary evidence to seek solutions to this persistent issue, with the ultimate goal of enhancing provision for babies, children and young adults.
Kathy Brodie has worked in the Early Years Sector for over 15 years in a variety of roles and settings. She is an author and online training specialist, for practitioners of all levels.Kathy organises the ground-breaking Early Years Summit, a free, twice-yearly, online conference. She has written and edited several books, including one on Sustained Shared Thinking, and writes a regular resources column for Practical Preschool magazine.
Her new book, ‘Birth to Three: Holistic Development’ published by David Fulton, has just been released.
We’re a little in awe of Julian who really is changing the system with the work he does. Working with the DfE, EEF, Ofsted. He runs a training school, heads up a research school and inspires many teachers through his writing and talks.
Head teacher of Sheringham Nursery School and Children’s Centre in East London which has recently been awarded Research school status. Keynote speaker at Nursery World Show 2020.
Served as an adviser on two committees for the Department of Education: The Rose Review of the Primary Curriculum, and The Nutbrown Review of Early Education and Childcare Qualifications.
Regularly writes for Nursery World. Authored and co-authored a number of books about early years education.
Retired Detective Chief Superintendent with Strathclyde Police, John now works as an independent consultant and adviser on violence prevention, effective partnership working and leadership.
John is a passionate advocate of prevention, whole system thinking, early years and effective collaboration and also the importance of human relationships and acknowledging the value of “being human.” Which couldn’t be more of a perfect fit with what we believe here at Tales Toolkit.
Together with a colleague, John established the Violence Reduction Unit with the aim of developing a strategy that would bring about sustainable reductions in violence within Strathclyde. In April 2006 the VRU assumed a Scotland wide role and continues to be supported by the Scottish Government. Their fundamental tenet is that “violence is preventable – not inevitable”.
John acted as an adviser for many projects and organisations including:
Head teacher of Sheringham Nursery School and Children's Centre in East London. Author of Successful Early Years Ofsted Inspections. National Leader of Education. Co-founders of the East London Partnership Teaching School. Works as an additional inspector.
Keynote speaker at Nursery World Show 2017.Served as an adviser on two committees for the Department of Education: The Rose Review of the Primary Curriculum, and The Nutbrown Review of Early Education and Childcare Qualifications. Regularly writes for Nursery World. Authored and co-authored a few books about early years education.
Previous roles include: Senior Early Years Adviser for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Head teacher of Kate Greenaway Nursery School and Children's Centre in Islington.
‘..a world leader in enthusiasm’
Hywel has been a teacher for over twenty-five years. His reputation has grown hugely since he stepped out of the full-time classroom. He has found an incredible and innovative niche in the world of model teaching contributing to and advising curriculum designers and innovators from Barnsley to Brussels, from Cairo to Cleethorpes. Hywel is as at home in front of hundreds of Headteachers on the conference circuit as he is when working with EAL children on the carpets of their classrooms.
Hywel contributes to the national conversation around education at school and university level. He is an experienced teacher in Special, Primary and Secondary settings, nationally and internationally. He is also a well- respected author and contributes regularly to a variety of publications.
His award-winning book ‘Oops! Getting Children to Learn Accidentally’ is published by Crown House Publishing and has proved very popular with educators around the world and now is a feature on the reading list of many university teacher training courses. His book ‘Uncharted Territories’ is written with Dr Debra Kidd and was published in 2018. He writes a regular column for the Times Educational Supplement about his encounters as a ‘travelling teacher’. He has also contributed fiction to a prison-based literacy reading programme developed by The Shannon Trust.
Check out Hywel’s links to find out more.
Jane travels the world, speaking, training, coaching and writing on stress and anxiety.
During these difficult time with Covid-19 it’s more important than ever for us to put a focus on children’s social emotional development. Seems perfect timing to chat with Jane on her expert approach to childhood trauma and anxiety.
Jane Evans credits the children, young people, parents and carers she has worked with and cared for as being her greatest teachers. They have consistently shown and taught her the realities of how lives are profoundly shaped by early childhood experiences.
Jane’s huge curiosity about the why behind child and adult struggles with anxiety and low self-worth has led her to study a wide range of cutting-edge body and brain-based science.
Jane brings her professional and life experience to her roles as a renowned TV and radio expert and author of four children’s books, TED Talker, and international speaker and coach. She makes the why behind people’s behaviours simple to grasp. She provides solid, practical solutions so that everyone has the opportunity to live well beyond their anxiety and other limiting beliefs and behaviours.
Musician and trainer discusses music through storytelling.
John Webb has been working as a musician in EY for 17 years. During this time he has worked for venues, schools and music services designing outreach projects, leading sessions and training teachers. He is particularly interested in child-led music-making and how that fits connects with adult-led musical contexts.
He has worked extensively on Wigmore Hall’s Chamber Tots programme visiting many schools in the London area, but has also worked for a large variety of other arts organisations, including the National Theatre, and with participants of all ages: primary, secondary, vulnerable adults and SEND.
Helen Moylett is an independent early years consultant and writer. She has been head-teacher of an early years centre as well as working in schools and as a university lecturer. She was a Birth to Three Matters national trainer and from 2004-2011 she worked for the National Strategies and was centrally involved in developing the Early Years Foundation Stage and other national guidance. Helen was national lead for the Every Child a Talker programme. She is a Vice President of Early Education and tutors on the M.A. and PGCE courses at the Centre for Research in Early Childhood in Birmingham.
Nancy is a skilled teacher, consultant and trainer with nationally recognised expertise. She has worked closely with Department for Education policy teams in implementing national programmes, and in drafting revisions to curriculum and assessment in the Early Years Foundation Stage review. She has been central to developing national training materials on assessment and on pedagogy, particularly around the role of the adult in playful teaching and learning. In addition, early communication and language for thinking is a prime area of interest and expertise, along with children’s development as self-regulated learners.
Between them Nancy and Helen co-authored ‘Development Matters’ and many other publications.
Click the links below to find out more about Helen and Nancy:
Helen has a wealth of experience in teaching. Initially working in the primary sector, she co-founded a preschool in 2005, where she acquired a keen interest in early intervention and the positive effect this has on a child’s development and progress.
Helen is an Early Years author, and has written two books, Developing Empathy in the Early Years: a guide for practitioners (Winner of the Nursery World Awards 2018 for Professional Book Category) and Building a Resilient Early Years Workforce, published by Early Years Alliance in June 2019.
Helen is Education Director at Arc Pathway, a sensitive profiling system for early years which tracks and supports young children aged 12 to 60 months.
Helen writes articles for Parents, Early Years Teacher Organisation, QA Education, Teach Early Years, and Early Years Educator.
A big personality (and an even bigger fan of Tales Toolkit) Greg is an experienced Early Years specialist who is passionate about the role of play in our education systems. He is committed to enabling children to be at the centre of their own development and learning.
Greg is an Early Years specialist and author of the bestselling book ‘Can I Go And Play Now?’. He is passionate about childhood, the art of co-playing and the magic of children. His new book ‘School and the Magic of Children’ came out in April 2020 and explores how the how and why for the ‘echo of play’ to go up through school.
Check out Greg’s links to find out more.
Graham is the author of three books, including the global best-seller “How to be a Productivity Ninja”, and “How to be a Study Ninja”.
Graham is the founder of Think Productive, one of the world’s leading providers of personal productivity training and consultancy, with offices in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and the Netherlands.
With a mission to revolutionise stuffy time management courses, Think Productive launched in April 2009 and has earned rave reviews from the likes of British Airways, The Cabinet Office, eBay, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Barclays Commercial Bank for its practical approach.
Graham also hosts the popular business podcast, “Beyond Busy”, which explores the issues of productivity, work/life balance and how people define happiness in their lives, profiling interesting people from Olympic gold medallists to tech entrepreneurs to clowns.
Check out Graham’s links to find out more.
Greg is an Early Years specialist and author of the bestselling book ‘Can I Go And Play Now?’. He is passionate about childhood, the art of co-playing and the magic of children. His new book ‘School and the Magic of Children’ came out in April 2020 and explores how the how and why for the ‘echo of play’ to go up through school.
A big personality (and an even bigger fan of Tales Toolkit) Greg is an experienced Early Years specialist who is passionate about the role of play in our education systems. He is committed to enabling children to be at the centre of their own development and learning.
Check out Greg’s links to find out more.
Greg is an Early Years specialist and author of the bestselling book ‘Can I Go And Play Now?’. He advocates for Play People of every age.
Dr Alice Jones Bartoli, BSc PGCert PhD
Senior Lecturer and Director of Unit of School and Family Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Elizabeth Jarman is an award-winning author and an internationally recognised learning environments expert. She specialises in communication skills, emotional well-being and physical development, always considering the environments in which early years children learn as a main factor.
Elizabeth developed The Communication Friendly Spaces™ Approach which uses the environment to support communication skills, emotional well-being and physical development.
Elizabeth's work is widely recognised and respected and her thinking is professionally challenging the way that environments for children are viewed. Elizabeth developed many training programmes for the Department for Education, UK, worked as lead UK consultant with UNESCO advising on the development of European Family Learning schemes and is currently developing various learning environment projects in the UK, Jordan, Malaysia and Thailand.
Kay has worked in Early Years and primary settings since 1981. This has included supporting children with additional needs, especially behaviour, and their families. She led the Early Years Inclusion Team in a London Borough for 6 years, which involved supporting private, voluntary and independent sector settings to develop more inclusive practice. She has completed her PhD research into the development of social competence in young children at Sussex University.
Kay worked part time with the National Strategies as an Early Years Regional Adviser until 2011 when she became a Director of Linden Learning, an ethical educational training and consultancy business. She has a particular interest in exploring what life is like in our early years settings for two year olds and the way in which children with additional needs and their families are included effectively.
This led to her recent book using case studies to explore the SEND Code of Practice (2014). As an independent trainer and consultant Kay works nationally with local authorities, academies and PVI/maintained settings across the sector to improve the quality of provision and understanding of each child’s experience
Alice has directed the Unit for School and Family Studies at Goldsmiths since 2011. Her work focuses largely on school behaviour and mental health; understanding the influences on socio-emotional development across a child’s school life.
Alice has built a portfolio of research, working with schools and organisations to develop intervention strategies that work for students with complex and chronic difficulties. Alice’s work has been supported by external ESRC, Nuffield Foundation, National Autistic Society and Mind.
Alice is also the Editor in Chief of the British Journal of Educational Psychology. Board member of Thinktank Learnus, National Forum for Neuroscience and Special Education and has provided input for the DfE.
David is a passionate supporter of the teaching profession and strongly believes in the importance of providing children with opportunities to develop as full human being, not just "tick-boxes".
Anni began working with young children in a parent-run cooperative playgroup in the late 1980s. She went on to lead and manage the group, and since then has worked across the UK and Europe as a trainer, presenter, consultant and writer.
Specialising in the arts and creativity, with an emphasis on personal, social and emotional development, she works on a variety of projects and is an Associate of Early Education. Her background in the arts, education and psychotherapy gives her a unique perspective and her approach is to inspire, inform and help practitioners identify strengths as well as areas to develop.
Dr Brynn Welch attended Davidson College in North Carolina before going on to earn her MA and PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has taught at Beloit College in Wisconsin, Emory & Henry College in Virginia, and now teaches at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, where her primary areas of interest are applied ethics and social/political philosophy.
In particular, she is interested in the intersection of the family with other social institutions and questions about whether, when, and to what extent broader social justice considerations may constrain what individuals within families do.
In 2013, Welch’s daughter was born, and she started seeing that her daughter was missing from so many stories in which we tell children what the world is and might be like. She became passionate about making sure that all children see themselves in the stories we tell, having adventures both ordinary and extraordinary.
Find out more about Dr Brynn:
Amy is Director of Teaching and Learning at Voice 21, a charity dedicated to amplifying the status of speaking in schools. Before joining Voice 21, Amy was lead oracy teacher at School 21, a non-selective free school in East London, with a focus on developing oracy.
Amy trained as a teacher through the Teach First programme during which she taught for three years in a primary school in Croydon. She has also taught internationally in both Central America and Europe.
Before becoming the creator of dough gym, teeny fairy doors and Jedi writing Alistair was head teacher of a very successful (and creative) three-form entry infant school and Early Years Unit for 10 years. In 2009 Alistair left headship and went into full time consultancy.
Advocate of mud kitchens, messy mark making and deconstructed role play Alistair proved very popular and now runs large conferences and works with individuals, settings and Local Authorities both Nationally and Internationally.
Author of many books (well worth checking out) and creator of ABCDoes blog which features the best ideas (including Tales Toolkit of course!)
Before becoming the creator of dough gym, teeny fairy doors and Jedi writing Alistair was head teacher of a very successful (and creative) three-form entry infant school and Early Years Unit for 10 years. In 2009 Alistair left headship and went into full time consultancy.
Advocate of mud kitchens, messy mark making and deconstructed role play Alistair proved very popular and now runs large conferences and works with individuals, settings and Local Authorities both Nationally and Internationally.
Author of many books (well worth checking out) and creator of ABCDoes blog which features the best ideas (including Tales Toolkit of course!)
Before becoming the creator of dough gym, teeny fairy doors and Jedi writing Alistair was head teacher of a very successful (and creative) three-form entry infant school and Early Years Unit for 10 years. In 2009 Alistair left headship and went into full time consultancy.
Advocate of mud kitchens, messy mark making and deconstructed role play Alistair proved very popular and now runs large conferences and works with individuals, settings and Local Authorities both Nationally and Internationally.
Author of many books (well worth checking out) and creator of ABCDoes blog which features the best ideas (including Tales Toolkit of course!)
