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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
Baroness Shreela Flather
Professor Joan Freeman
David Fulton
Professor Diane Montgomery
Gervase Phinn
Sir Michael Tomlinson
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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| Board of Trustees |
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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 Principal Adviser with a Local Authority
with particular responsibility for the Secondary National Strategy.
In addition she takes the lead in the education of gifted and
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talented pupils for all phases. Sue is President of the National Association for Able Children in Education (NACE) and sits on the Partnership Board of London ChallengeGT. Sue was the inaugural chair of the LondonGT advisory group. She has been an adviser to QCA and the DfES on a number of initiatives and has had several articles published in a range of academic journals. Sue is a consultant to the publishers Rising Stars and a consultant editor to Gifted Education International. She is an associate consultant to Fieldwork Education Services delivering INSET in Europe and the USA. Sue is an associate tutor and external adviser to the CPD Directorate on the gifted and talented programme for Oxford Brookes University. She is an education adviser to the international Charles Darwin Trust and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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VICE CHAIR
Hilary Lowe
Hilary Lowe is Assistant Dean at the Westminster Institute of Education, Oxford Brookes University. She was the Project Director for the National Training Programme for Gifted and
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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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Karen Adams-Shearer |
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Mary Fitzpatrick
Mary has worked as a Vice Principal in a large provincial 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 fellowship in the
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Westminster Institute of Education, Oxford Brookes University. Her main focus was working on developing provision for able students and providing in-service training for teachers. She is particularly interested in the systems and procedures schools adopt to recognise the individuality of students with high ability and ways they then cater for these individual needs. 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. Mary is currently the guest editor of NACE Newsletter for members.
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Dr Peter Holding
Peter Holding is the Head of a selective co-educational school in Buckinghamshire, the chairman of the Buckinghamshire Association of Secondary Heads and a member of the board of the Bucks Academy for School Leadership. |
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He has been involved with Able, Gifted and Talented education for nearly 30 years, and a NACE member for most of that time.
He grew up in the United States and was educated both there and in England, with a Masters degree from the Shakespeare Institute and a doctorate in English literature from the University of Michigan. After a short period as a university lecturer in the US, he worked as a teacher of English, a Head of Drama, Head of English and then Deputy Head in schools in London and Warwickshire. His most recent interests include work to support education in rural South Africa, and he is a trustee of the Zanyeni Trust, a charity established to support the work of schools in one of the poorest parts of the Eastern Cape province.
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Michael Jones
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Linda Prestidge
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Valerie Scott
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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
Religious Education to 11-19 year-olds in the London boroughs |
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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 Consultant for Gifted |
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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
Editor 'Gifted Education International';
Past Executive Member of World Council G/T; National/
International Consultant G/T; extensive publications in
the field; specialist interest in Problem-solving and
Thinking Skills. |
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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
Rising Stars specialising in books and software for children of all |
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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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CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Julie Fitzpatrick
Julie started work as a primary teacher, has lead national
education training and consultancy businesses, was deputy
project manager for the national data collection of Key Stages
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2 and 3 teacher assessments and test results, has managed major national contracts for DfES, as was, and QCA. Has worked as an adviser to local authorities, an Ofsted inspector, an education lecturer and adviser to the Maltese Government. She is the author of science and maths books for young children and many articles for teachers. She was the winner of a national education award for enterprise work with pupils, including able, gifted and talented children.
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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.
She was a founder member of NACE and is a past President. |
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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 |
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DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
Kate East |
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