Primary Phase Inspectors

e: stuart.adlam@hants.gov.uk

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Stuart joined HIAS in 2018 having previously worked in primary and secondary education in Hampshire for over 30 years. He has successfully led three Hampshire primary schools in both rural and urban settings including an outstanding three-form entry primary school. Stuart has also worked as the vice-principal of an international school in Budapest, Hungary for three years. Most recently Stuart has established the primary section of Hampshire’s first 4 - 16 school and has leadership experience from Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) to KS4. He has a strong track record of school improvement and the development of effective teams.

His main areas of work include:

• the LA new headteacher induction programme
• HIAS Assessment team, primary assessment network and other assessment training
• HIAS Assessment Data Co-Lead
• working with schools to improve the high-quality inclusive teaching
• subject leader development
• safeguarding reviews
• senior leadership development including school self-evaluation and school improvement
• supporting and training governors.

Stuart works with headteachers and schools to support all aspects of their work including the effective strengthening and distribution of leadership. He is particularly interested in the effective use of evidence to support and shape practice and is trained in the use of metacognition and thinking skills to improve teaching and learning.

e: debbie.allen@hants.gov.uk

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Debbie joined HIAS in September 2021. Prior to this, Debbie was the headteacher of a successful school in West Sussex, having more than 15 years’ leadership experience. Whilst continuing to lead this school, she took on the additional Executive Headship of a failing school. After securing rapid improvements, most notably in teaching and learning, leadership and safeguarding, Debbie continued to lead the school team to secure the school’s future with a local Trust. As a headteacher, Debbie provided support for other schools in areas such as curriculum design, leadership development, professional development and pupil progress.

Some of Debbie’s areas of interest and experience are:

• developing and empowering leaders at all levels
• innovative curriculum design, development and sustainability
• improving outcomes for all through a focus on the whole child in pupil progress meetings as part of school improvement planning
• working with schools to improve self-evaluation and school improvement planning to improve outcomes.

Debbie has a particular interest in inclusion and is passionate about supporting every school to be good for every child.

e: michaela.barber@hants.gov.uk

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Michaela joined HIAS in April 2021. She has worked in infant, junior and primary schools within a wide range of contexts. She has held headships in three contrasting schools including an infant school with onsite nursery and a large primary school connected to a sister senior school.

During her educational career, she has been involved in coaching senior leaders, leading school self-evaluation and she has an extensive knowledge of the curriculum for primary and early years aged children.

Michaela has experience of headship in both Hampshire and abroad. She is experienced in the field of school improvement. She has been involved in school inspections, mentoring of headteachers and is an accredited facilitator for leading senior leader training as part of the National Professional Qualifications (NPQ) programme.

Her main areas of responsibilities include:

• Leadership and Learning Partner for a range of primary schools
• supporting school self-evaluation and school improvement planning
• working with governors
• development of and training for all levels of leaders

• induction and support of ECTs.

Michaela has a wide range of experience in education, including the implementation of a child-led curriculum and accelerating progress for all pupils through the effective use of data. Michaela values a holistic approach to education and is passionate about ensuring a relevant, high quality education for all.

e: chris.brooks-martin2@hants.gov.uk

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Chris joined HIAS in April 2022. He began working in Hampshire schools in September 2000 as an NQT. He has worked in both infant and primary schools across the county as a teacher and leader at all levels, including a non-class based deputy position within a federation. He has held two headships in his career. In his role as headteacher at both schools he has attained high quality outcomes for pupils, including successful Ofsted and SIAMs inspections.

During his educational career he was selected to be a lead teacher in Peer Coaching, identified as an outstanding Early Years teacher, has worked in partnership with Winchester University to assist in both core phonics teaching and what it means to be a subject leader in a primary setting. He has been seconded within his headships to help secure and continue progress in other local schools. He has lead school self-evaluation, is experienced in school improvement planning and has a wide knowledge of the curriculum for primary and early years aged children.

His main areas of responsibility and interests include:

• coaching and development of staff and leaders at all levels
• developing community engagement
• curriculum development
• supporting new headteachers
• working in partnership with governing bodies and headteachers

Chris values a holistic and creative approach to learning and strongly believes in the power of pupil voice, engagement, equity and thinking about thinking. Above all he believes in a curriculum where all pupils receive a high quality education and where children believe that they can succeed.

e: cherry.chope@hants.gov.uk

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Cherry began her career in Cornwall as a class teacher where she held responsibilities for both mathematics and ICT. After her time in the classroom, she secured a post as National Strategies Numeracy Consultant. During this time Cherry worked with schools across Cornwall offering targeted support for schools where results were below floor level, as well as subject knowledge training across all areas of mathematics and curriculum leadership.

In 2007 Cherry moved into headship and held posts which ranged from small rural settings to larger urban schools. In 2014 Cherry began work for Achievement for All (AfA), where she supported schools to review and develop the provision for the most vulnerable pupils at their school. During this time, she wrote the Early Years mathematics resources for AfA Bubble resource bank. This work was complemented with freelance training which included delivering a short-term project for the British Council for two years and working with British International Schools. Cherry has travelled to South East Asia and parts of Europe delivering her Early Years and Pupil Independence Training to inspire and reinvigorate colleagues across the globe.

Most recently Cherry has worked as a School Improvement Adviser for a large multi academy trust, offering both challenge and support to leadership teams as well as leading the introduction to the statutory changes in the Early Years. Cherry’s experience lies within the pre-primary and primary age groups.

e: rebecca.collins@hants.gov.uk

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Rebecca joined HIAS in September 2024, having worked for the last four years as a District Schools Effectiveness Adviser in Hertfordshire. She has sixteen years’ experience of school leadership and has had success as the headteacher of two primary schools, a rural church school and an urban primary.

During her 31 years in primary education, she has delivered lectures at the University of Hertfordshire, been the chair of a headteacher consortium and a behaviour executive committee and has worked extensively with the local authority to support other schools. This has included supporting other headteachers in the development of provision for pupils with social, emotional and mental health needs. Her teaching experience includes all year groups across the primary sector from nursery to Year 6.

Rebecca is passionate about providing a quality educational experience for every child in Hampshire. She believes in a focus on the mental well-being of school leaders to enable them to create a healthy and evolving school improvement process.

Her main areas of experience and expertise include:

• Leadership and Learning Partner to primary school leaders
• supporting school self-evaluation and improvement planning
• subject leader and curriculum design training
• supporting headteachers new to the profession
• working with and developing school governors.

Rebecca works closely with schools to support all aspects of school improvement, striving, through positive partnerships, to align and streamline self-evaluation when establishing school priorities, to impact pupil outcomes.

e: edward.dawson@hants.gov.uk

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Ed joined HIAS in September 2022. He has worked in schools across Southampton and Hampshire for over 25 years. This has included 15 years in senior leadership, two interim headships and most recently seven years as head teacher at a large junior school in Basingstoke.

His main areas of interest and responsibility include:

• working as the Leadership and Learning Partner for a range of primary phase schools
• supporting school self-evaluation and school improvement planning
• working with schools to improve teaching and learning
• being part of the Hampshire Assessment team.

Ed’s particular areas of interest and expertise are curriculum development, supporting the practice of middle leaders and building effective leadership teams. Having been a staff governor for over 20 years, working in a variety of contexts, he is also able to support the development of governance and the strategic role that governors undertake in schools.

e: jason.matthews@hants.gov.uk

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Jason joined HIAS in September 2017. He has worked in schools across Hampshire and Kent for over 20 years in a range of contexts. Jason has also worked as an Achievement Partner for Teach First, providing training, coaching and mentoring for school leaders.

His main areas of responsibility are:

• support for school improvement, leadership training, coaching and mentoring
• Leadership and Learning Partner
• professional development for school staff
• primary assessment.

Jason has eight years of headship experience in two outstanding Kent primary schools and has a good understanding of the challenges that are faced by both small and large schools. He has extensive experience of developing and coaching leadership at all levels, across a number of schools.

Jason believes in working in partnership with school leaders to support and advise on self- evaluation and school improvement. He is able to support the development of governance and the strategic role that governors undertake in schools. Jason enjoys working alongside teachers and leaders to develop practice and improve outcomes for all children.

Jason has a particular interest in supporting schools to understand the wide range of factors that can lead to a child being vulnerable to underachievement, including their social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) needs.

e: Lindsay.McCarthy@hants.gov.uk

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Lindsay joined the HIAS team in April 2024 having previously worked in primary education in Hampshire for almost 30 years. With 17 years of headship experience across a range of schools, from rural settings to larger urban schools, Lindsay has secured a wealth of primary experience. Developing and strengthening staff teams to improve teaching and learning and outcomes from Early Years to Year 6 is a particular strength.

Her main areas of work include:

• acting as a Leadership and Learning Partner for a range of primary phase schools
• working with schools to improve self-evaluation and self-improvement planning
• supporting primary phase schools to improve the quality of teaching and learning.>

Lindsay is passionate about curriculum development and supporting middle leaders with curriculum implementation and evaluation.

e: simon.mitchell-innes@hants.gov.uk

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Simon has worked in primary education in Hampshire for 27 years and has 10 years’ experience of headship. Simon is passionate about Primary Education and has worked in Primary schools across KS1 and KS2 as a teacher and leader at all levels, including all core subjects and as a SENDCo. Simon has held two headships in his career.

Simon’s main responsibilities include:

• Leadership and Learning Partner to a number of primary schools
• Providing support for school improvement and leadership development, including leadership training, coaching and mentoring
• Ensuring the quality and consistency of teaching and learning
• Professional development for school staff.

Simon’s expertise lies particularly in teaching, learning and assessment, school improvement and SEND including:

• developing rigorous school self-evaluation that leads to focused strategic planning
• strengthening leadership at all levels and career stages, including support for new headteachers
• working with school leaders to improve the quality of teaching, learning and assessment
• effective subject leadership, including the development of impactful monitoring and evaluation
• working with governors on support and challenge

Simon also co-leads the team of Local Authority assessment inspectors and moderators for Hampshire. This role includes coordinating and delivering training to support schools in developing their approaches to formative and summative assessment, as well as overseeing the process of statutory assessment.

e: alister.moses@hants.gov.uk

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Alister joined HIAS in September 2021, having worked for the last six years as an Education Partner within the central Education Team of a large multi academy trust in Surrey. He is an experienced primary school leader, gaining the NPQEL qualification in October 2021. He has a broad experience across the leadership spectrum from Chief Executive Officer, Executive Head, Headteacher and Deputy Head, both within maintained schools and in a multi academy trust.

His main areas of experience and expertise include:

• Leadership and Learning Partner to primary school leaders
• Specialist Leader of Education - pupil premium
• Equality and diversity effective practice and leadership development
• Physical education and effective use of the Sports premium
• Ofsted preparation for senior and middle leaders
• Higher Level Teaching Assistant and Learning Support Assistant training and development
• Designated Safeguarding lead and good practice.

Alister works with schools to support all aspects of their school improvement work and professional learning needs. He has been involved in a range of school-to-school improvement projects, coaching and mentoring new and experienced senior and middle leaders. Alister has a particular interest in developing a school’s curriculum offer to ensure inclusivity stays central to school improvement planning, and curriculum development.

e: jilly.myers@hants.gov.uk

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Jilly joined HIAS in April 2024, having previously worked in primary education in Hampshire for almost 30 years. With over 20 years of leadership experience, including more than 17 years as a headteacher, Jilly has a wealth of experience. Latterly, she was the executive headteacher of an infant school and a junior school both with Resourced Provisions for pupils with moderate learning difficulties. She completed the Senior Leader L7 Apprenticeship and the NPQEL qualification in April 2024 and is committed to continuing professional development.

Jilly’s main areas of interest and expertise include:

• coaching and development of staff at all levels, particularly leaders
• supporting school improvement planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation
• development and effective deployment of teaching assistants
• supporting schools to develop provision for pupils who are disadvantaged
• supporting schools to ensure that provision for pupils with SEND is ambitious and helps them to develop independence.

Jilly works in primary schools to support headteachers and their teams in their work and acts as a Leadership and Learning Partner for a range of primary phase schools.

e: sarah.peters@hants.gov.uk

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Sarah joined the HIAS team in 2023. She has worked in Hampshire for the vast majority of her 35-year career moving into Headship in 2002. Sarah has had the privilege of leading three schools, swiftly galvanising communities to secure rapid school improvement. She has previously been a Leadership and Learning Partner and LLE (Local Leader of Education) often working in schools during challenging times.

Sarah’s areas of interest and experience include:

• creating high performing teams through collaborative activities including using peer observation and coaching models/tools
• providing quality training and development opportunities to empower and encourage leaders
• developing a whole school, inclusive pedagogy to improve learning experiences and outcomes for all pupils
• broadening and strengthening provision for pupils through the creation of partnerships with schools and a range of childcare providers within the community
• school self-evaluation and improvement planning.

Sarah is passionate about coaching and supporting leaders to problem solve resolutions to the complex challenges facing schools today.

e: Alison.Rhodes@hants.gov.uk

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Alison joined the HIAS team in 2023, after a career working in West Sussex, Southampton and Hampshire. She has been in school leadership for the past 11 years, including headship in a Hampshire primary school and a recent secondment as head to a junior school.

Teaching mainly in schools with higher numbers of vulnerable children, Alison is passionate about improving outcomes for children. Her route into school leadership was through SEN – as SENCo she was an advanced skills teacher, and then a specialist leader in Education, supporting local schools in developing inclusive practices. Effective behaviour management and working with parents have both been recent areas of work.

Alison has had a lot of experience of supporting and developing students and teachers new to the profession through both SCITT and School direct work. She has also supported and coached teachers, enabling them to become effective leaders.

e: nicola.rickman2@hants.gov.uk

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Nicky joined the HIAS team in January 2022. She joined from her 27th year working in primary education in Hampshire. This has included 18 years in senior leadership, with eight of those years in headship. Nicky’s school base has predominately been in primary, where she has enjoyed the challenges of working with staff to develop the educational experiences of pupils from the Early Years to Year 6.

Her main areas of work include:

• working as a Leadership and Learning Partner for a range of primary phase schools
• engaging with schools to support the induction of ECTs
• providing support for school self-evaluation and school improvement
• supporting schools with the development of curriculum and leadership at all levels.

Nicky’s particular areas of interest and expertise are curriculum development, the development of middle and senior leaders, inclusion and the wider school ethos. Nicky has enjoyed working alongside staff and pupils to develop pupil voice in schools, along with a rights, respecting ethos and a strong school culture of achievement for all.

e: sian.smith@hants.gov.uk

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Sian works for HIAS as a Primary Phase Inspector. She has been a headteacher of a primary school and an Executive Headteacher of a federation of an infant and junior school. She has also supported other primary schools as a Local Leader of Education (LLE) and as a Consultant Headteacher and is a member of the Association of Education Advisers (AoEA).

Her main areas of work include:

• acting as a Leadership and Learning Partner for a range of primary phase schools
• working with schools to improve self-evaluation and self-improvement planning
• improving the quality of teaching and learning within primary phase schools.

Sian is passionate about coaching and enhancing social and emotional skills of pupils and led the development of these areas as a teaching and learning adviser for Southampton City Council. Her expertise lies in supporting schools in challenging circumstances and the strategic development of leadership teams.

e: emma.tarrant@hants.gov.uk

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As lead Inspector/Adviser for primary English, Emma works hard to ensure the English team are focussed on both local and national priorities.

As well as having oversight of countywide actions, Emma provides bespoke INSET, projects and courses in all aspects of English. She is an accredited Inference Trainer and qualified to train the trainer in Fischer Family Trust (FFT) Wave 3 interventions for reading. She works closely with the Hampshire Assessment team to coordinate and deliver statutory activities around Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 moderation.

Her main areas of expertise are:

• supporting schools in raising attainment and progress through curriculum design, pedagogy and assessment
• early literacy including the development of phonics, early reading and writing
• reading comprehension and inference.

e: tim.walters@hants.gov.uk

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Tim is a highly experienced primary school headteacher, with a significant and successful track record of school improvement over the last 30 years, particularly with schools in challenging circumstances, as a headteacher and as a senior adviser.

Tim has had three successful substantive primary headships, and interim headships in a range of contexts. He has successfully led all schools from an OFSTED category or ‘requiring improvement’ by the LA to ‘good’ or better by focussing on high quality school sequential improvement planning for high quality teaching and provision. In all schools the work led to improved pupil progress, plus sustained continued school improvement.

He worked as a senior adviser for Somerset LA where he led a team working with 85 primary schools, enabling the local authority and schools to work more closely. He successfully worked with all schools, including high performing, to secure further improvement.

He specialises in whole school turnaround projects, leadership and management, coaching and mentoring, school improvement planning, and school budgets.

He is an author of two published books on Growth Mindset, with a particular interest in brain functioning links to effective learning and development within organisations at all levels.

Tim’s expertise lies in:

• strengthening leadership and management at all levels
• providing support for school improvement and leadership development training and networks as part of the Hampshire Assessment team.
• supporting rigorous school self-evaluation that leads to focused sequential improvement planning
• coaching and mentoring
• supporting school turnarounds
• developing collaborative partnerships
• dupporting school budgeting for school improvement
• implementation of effective Growth Mindset whole school strategies
• supporting the planning, implementation, monitoring and review cycle.

e: jane.wilson@hants.gov.uk

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Jane has worked for HIAS as a Primary Phase Inspector since 2014. Before relocating to Hampshire she held a number of subject and phase leadership roles in schools in a variety of contexts in the North West. Following her initial headship of a small primary school, she then led the successful amalgamation of a separate infant and junior school.

Jane’s areas of expertise include:

• improving the quality of teaching and learning
• developing leaders at all levels, particularly middle leaders
• developing effective systems for securing school improvement
• validating school’s self-evaluation
• developing and evaluating school’s provision for disadvantaged children
• supporting schools in challenging circumstances.

Jane works in primary schools to support headteachers and leadership teams in their work. She uses a combination of individualised support and challenge, and bespoke staff training to help schools in their continued journey of improvement.