Katherine Fey, Odyssey Teaching School Alliance

Current Role:  Head of Additional Studies, Co-ordinator of Teaching & Learning

Current School:  Pate's Grammar School

Key Stage / Age Range / Subject Specialism:  KS3-5 / Economics, Business

Katherine's previous roles have been as a Head of Department in both school and Sixth Form College settings, a co-ordinator of Teaching and Learning and a member of the extended SLT at Pate's Grammar School.

Katherine has an MSc in Educational leadership with a focus on leadership for innovation. Her work with Google in California enables her to bring experience of leadership in the best of industry together with over 20 years in education to inform her work.

She has recent experience in driving sustained improvements in Assessment for Learning techniques to raise pupil achievement, resilience and independence. In addition, she has had significant impact in working collaboratively to develop the Teaching and Learning strand of the
School Development plan. Ensuring a strong vision of excellence and a range of practical strategies to support new and experienced colleagues to develop their own practice through training, advice and support.

She has been instrumental in leading improvements in differentiation amongst pupils in a high achieving Grammar School. Training designed and led in the last 2 years includes that on questioning, differentiation, creating the right classroom environment, metacognition, formative assessment, and enhancing skills for learning. Katherine also organises regular TeachMeets locally.

As an SLE she specialises in improving Teaching and Learning. More specifically: Assessment, Provision for the Gifted and Talented and Post-16 Education.

Contact:  Odyssey, Rachel Thorpe - rthorpe@patesgs.org