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OUR MISSION
OUR HISTORY
WHO WE ARE
WHAT WE DO
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
OUR CLIENTS
OUR LINKS
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
CEO AND DIRECTORS
Patrons
Professor Guy Claxton
Professor Deborah Eyre
Baroness Shreela Flather
Professor Joan Freeman
David Fulton
Professor Diane Montgomery
Sir Michael Tomlinson
Belle Wallace
Professor John West-Burnham
Dr Chris Yapp
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NACE exists solely to support the daily work of teachers providing for pupils with high abilities whilst enabling all pupils to flourish. |
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Our History |
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The Association is a Company limited by Guarantee and a Registered Charity. It was established in 1984 by members of the Schools Council Gifted Child Project to bring together and support all those with an interest in the education of able, gifted and talented children.
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Who we are |
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We are a large network of educators passionate about enabling able pupils to fulfil their potential within inclusive school communities. Our members are teachers, leading teachers, head teachers, advisers, inspectors, psychologists, researchers, writers, independent consultants, student teachers and school governors. They include people who are new to teaching able pupils and the leading national and international practitioners in the field - a wealth of experience used to benefit teachers and their pupils.
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What we do |
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Develop and exchange strategies for effective practice and further the professional development of our members
Provide professional responses to issues affecting education of able, gifted and talented children and advice to government agencies
Undertake development projects with partner organisations, local education authorities and groups of schools
Provide professional expertise, advice, training and consultancy services, conferences, events, publications and resources
Everything we do is driven by our commitment to help teachers improve the education of able, gifted and talented pupils. |
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Our clients |
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Hundreds of schools, cluster groups, many local authorities and individual teachers have used our services and return for further support as their work develops. |
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Our links
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Nationally NACE has regular contacts with the DCSF, QCA, Welsh Assembly Government, OfSTED, TTA, BECTA, London Gifted and Talented, Young Gifted and Talented and City GATES City Challenge Programme
Internationally NACE is affiliated to the European Council for High Ability and the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children. |
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The Board of Trustees constitutionally consists of the President, Vice President, Treasurer, Company Secretary and six committee members plus the immediate Past President, a UK delegate to the World Council for Gifted Children and a delegate to the European Council for High Ability. |
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CHAIR AND PRESIDENT
Sue Mordecai
Sue is currently the President of the National Association for Able Children in Education (NACE) and the Chair of Trustees. She is Principal Adviser with a Local Authority. |
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Sue is currently a member of the DCSF Gifted and Talented Stakeholder Advisory Group and the SSAT G&T Steering Group. She is a consultant to the publishers Rising Stars and on the editorial board of the academic journal Gifted Education International. She was an associate tutor for Oxford Brookes University and is an education adviser to the international Charles Darwin Trust. Sue is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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VICE CHAIR
Hilary Lowe
Hilary is Assistant Dean at the Westminster Institute of Education, Oxford Brookes University. She was the Project Director for the National Training Programme for
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Gifted and Talented Co-ordinators for the government’s Excellence in Cities initiative. She has been a member of a number of national consultative and advisory groups on gifted and talented education, including the National Strategy Group developing the Leading Teachers programme and the DCSF group advising on Quality Standards. Hilary has written and presented widely on the education of able children and on the professional development of teachers and educational leadership. She is currently working with the Oxford Academy advising on curriculum and professional development. Hilary has served on NACE National Committee for 5 years.
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Jan Beet |
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Steve Clarke |
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Mary Fitzpatrick
Mary has been a Vice Principal in a large secondary school in Oxfordshire. She has many years teaching experience in secondary schools in both the inner city and the provinces. For a short period she held a research |
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fellowship in the Westminster Institute of Education, Oxford Brookes University. She is especially interested in the kind of able individual, who does not conform to the traditional stereotype of high ability, who will not necessarily go on to higher education, eg, able entrepreneurs or students with autistic spectrum disorders. She has been involved in a number of mentoring projects to provide support for able students.
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Dr Peter Holding
Peter is currently a Headteacher of a co-educational grammar school in Buckinghamshire. He serves on the 14-19 steering committee for Bucks and is on the advisory board for the local pupil referral unit. He is the chairman |
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of the Buckinghamshire Association of Secondary Heads and of the Milton Keynes and Buckingamshire Enterprise Learning Partnership and a trustee of the Khanyeni Trust, which works with schools in Eastern Cape province, South Africa. He has been a Deputy Head, Head of English and Head of Drama in schools in Warwickshire and London as well as a teacher of English and Film Studies at the University of Michigan.
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Michael Jones
Mike currently has responsibility for secondary English in the South West, as well as helping to co-ordinate G&T support across the Strategy. He has worked with the National Strategies since April 2000.
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His previous post was as English Adviser/Literacy Manager for Cheshire County Council, with responsibility across phases. Prior to that he was teacher, Head of English and Head of English and Drama at schools in the Bristol area. Having read English at Cambridge, Mike did a PGCE at Leicester University and obtained a master’s degree in education from Bristol University.
He has served as Secretary and Chair of the National Association for Advisers in English, examined ‘A’ Level for many years, and been Chair of GCSE English Examiners for the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (AQA). He was a consultant to the BBC and Channel 4 on television poetry programmes and has written articles on educational issues in the national press. He has edited or contributed to various publications in the fields of able pupils, language and literature.
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Mary Myatt |
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Linda Prestidge
Linda is the Gifted and Talented Co-ordinator for Luton, Bedfordshire. Prior to assuming that role she worked as the G&T lead in a large secondary school. Linda is a member of the regional Gifted and Talented Group, Excellence East. She has also been a member of the
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DCSF Steering Group and Associate Tutor for OxfordBrookes University. Linda has delivered inset to teachers in England and in Europe. She has worked with organisations like the National Archive to develop programmes to challenge able learners. She is passionate about supporting able young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. |
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Michael Sheridan
Mike started his teaching career after he gained his qualification from Loughborough in 1973.
He taught Mathematics, Physical Education, Computing and
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Religious Education to 11-19 year-olds in the London boroughs of Lewisham and Lambeth until 1984. Having spent a career break of six years in financial services, he returned to education in the London borough of Wandsworth until 1992.He completed his teaching career in Lewisham as a headteacher and, subsequently, became an LEA officer in the borough, specializing in Excellence in Cities initiatives.Since the start of 2008, Mike has been working with the Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark as the Assistant Director of Education.He has been a speaker and facilitator at National and Pan-London workshops and delivered presentations at Pan-London and local conferences, with particular emphasis on widening participation issues and the education of able children. He supports the view that Gifted and Talented education should be inclusive and is currently serving on the National Committee of NACE.In both 2002 and 2003, following a request by the DfES, Mike delivered several talks to Excellence Challenge professionals from around the country and three years later, as part of a working group, advised the Department on issues relating to Aimhigher. He has also been an Associate Tutor at Oxford-Brookes University.Since the early eighties, Mike has served on governing bodies in the Catholic sector at three schools in the primary phase, two secondary schools and a sixth form college. His faith is extremely important to him and he is an active member of his local parish.He lives in South-East London with his wife. They have two sons, who currently work in the banking sector, and a young granddaughter, who manages to keep Mike very much on his toes.
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COMPANY SECRETARY
Julie Graham
Julie been involved with NACE since it first began in 1983. As a retired Headteacher, her interests have remained with more able pupils and she is currently a part-time |
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Consultant for Gifted and Talented Education to Bracknell Forest Local Authority. Her work in this field has included training and writing materials to support teachers in the classroom.
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IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT
Belle Wallace
Belle is immediate past President of NACE and currently Director of TASC International (A Curriculum Framework |
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for developing Problem-solving and Thinking Skills); she was formerly Co-Director of the Curriculum Development Unit (University of Natal, SA) with the brief for developing Assessment Strategies and Curriculum Extension for very able, disadvantaged learners, and training Curriculum Planners; she designed and was senior author of a whole school series of 48 language and thinking skills texts to redress cognitive underdevelopment in pupils from 6 to 17+ years. Belle has been the Editor of the tri-annual Journal Gifted Education International since 1981. She currently works as a consultant on Problem-solving and Thinking Skills both nationally and internationally, and continues to write extensively for teachers and pupils.
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BUSINESS ADVISER
Ben Barton
Ben has worked in education for 15 years including time at Pearson, Granada Learning and Harcourt. He co-owns and runs
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Rising Stars specialising in books and software for children of all abilities. He is a member of the Educational Publishing Council and St Nicolas School PSA. Ben has three children under 7 and works in the school library 3 days a term.
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CEO and Directors
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CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Rowena Gaston
Rowena has moved to NACE from a Chief Executive role with another Educational Charity. Her experience has been wide and varied but largely focused around
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educational settings. She has a wealth of enthusiasm for Education and considerable respect for those who work with children. She has empathy for teachers and their role and significant experience in leading and managing in the education field. She enjoys guiding and developing projects to improve the education of pupils. Rowena has twin boys who are very involved in sport and drama. In her spare time, she follows her passion for dance and choreography.
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FOUNDER DIRECTOR
Johanna Raffan
Johanna has had many years teaching experience and was a Headteacher for 25 years in Nursery, Primary and Middle schools.
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She was a founder member of NACE and is a past President. She is Consultant on More Able & Talented to the Qualifications, Curriculum and Assessment Authority for Wales (ACCACC). She is an Executive Member of the European Council for High Ability and is a UK delegate for the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children. She is a Council member of the College of Teachers, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Education Adviser on Able Children to the Government of Madeira. |
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EDUCATION DIRECTOR
Rachel Feneck
Rachel has a key role in shaping, developing and presenting professional development programmes for Able, Gifted and Talented pupils. Rachel is also NACE’s |
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National Lead Assessor for the Challenge Award which brings her into regular contact with a range of schools, including those from the independent sector, advisers and consultants.Rachel has been a Headteacher of a primary and a junior school in two contrasting settings before beginning her work with NACE. Her work as a ‘School Improvement Partner’ enables her to work on a ‘one-to-one’ basis with Headteachers and Leadership teams to help them develop their provision. To support middle managers she has recently written an Education Essentials ‘Guide for Leading Teachers of Gifted and Talented Education’. * Rachel also works with an employment based Initial Teacher Training organisation as a quality assurance assessor. She is also the author of ‘Able, Gifted and Talented for the Informed Beginning Teacher’. **Published by NACE-Reeve Education 2009 |
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DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
Kate East
Kate has worked in educational and academic publishing for over 17 years covering a variety of roles including sales, marketing, product development and publisher |
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relations. She started her career with Blackwells in Oxford developing the first wave of online publishing. More recently Kate has worked with Harcourt Education and ABC Clio working with schools and Local Authority advisers. |
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