THE EXCHANGE


CHANGES TO HfL's SLTSPOTLIGHT


A number of changes have been happening to the senior leadership team at Herts for Learning. With the company constantly adapting, expanding and developing and with a number of existing SLT members retiring, three new, yet familiar, faces have taken on new positions. Mireille MacRaild, Helen Jones and Paul Wilson have all been appointed in new roles within the company. Read their profiles below.


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Mireille MacRaild Education Services


Director for Early Years


Director for Disadvantaged Pupils


Helen Jones Education Services


Director for Secondary schools SENIOR LEADERSHIP TEAM


Managing Director Jan Paine (until March 2017)


Andrew de Csilléry (from April 2017)


Paul Wilson Education Services


Education Services Director for Early Years Mireille MacRaild


Mireille MacRaild is the Education Services Director for Early Years at Herts for Learning. She leads the Early Years team, which supports schools, children’s centres and Early Years settings in developing high-quality provision and undertaking work to improve outcomes for young children and their families.


Mireille first became passionate about work in Early Years when teaching in an inner-city main- tained nursery school in Edinburgh. She has since taught in the foundation stage and Key Stage 1, has supported PVI settings as a qualified teacher, has led and managed large daycare settings, and was seconded from HfL to work as a Hert- fordshire nursery school headteacher. Mireille has worked as an additional inspector for Tribal Inspections, undertaking inspections in the Early Years sector.


Mireille’s expertise includes the strategic use of data to support leaders in improving the quality of provision, to enable children to maximise their potential. She leads training sessions, supports staff teams to build capacity to raise standards in their setting, and develops appropriate systems and procedures to meet the requirements of the EYFS. She is a Hertfordshire Nursery School and Children’s Centre Improvement Partner.


Mireille’s participation in the Effective Early Learning research project fostered her interest in analysing children’s wellbeing and their levels of involvement during play. This has helped to formulate strategies that better support learning through child-initiated activities. This research is complemented by her ongoing work as an Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scales Auditor; the main aim of this role is to identify areas for development, environments.


to ensure high-quality learning


Mireille is currently the vice chair of the eastern region quality-improvement network, and sits on the National Early Years consultative forum for Ofsted.


Helen is a trained lead Ofsted inspector, and is accredited to inspect specialist SEN resource provision as well as SEN provision in main- stream schools and academies. She is also accredited to inspect independent mainstream and special schools.


01438 845831 hfl.executive@hertsforlearning.co.uk


Helen is the Education Services Director for disadvantaged and vulnerable pupils and she has over 30 years’ experience in education. The core purpose of her role is to challenge and support mainstream and special schools to raise stand- ards for pupils who are supported by the pupil premium, including those who are known to be eligible for free school meals, those who are looked after by the Local Authority, those who have special educational needs and/or disabil- ities, those who speak English as an additional language or who are from minority ethnic groups, those with mental health needs, those at risk of cyber-exploitation, and pupils from any other groups that need support to reach their potential.


“Improving outcomes for disadvantaged and vulnerable pupils is a cause which is very near to my heart because these are the children who need us most,” explained Helen. “I believe passionately that schools are a powerful vehicle to ensure that these children get the very best out of education and so do the very best they can.


“I am fully committed to supporting schools wherever I can, and I know that my team share this passion and commitment too. I look forward to the time when we can say with confidence that, in Hertfordshire, the differences are dimin- ishing for these pupils.”


Helen's work supports school improvement in Hertfordshire and beyond, and this includes lead- ership team development and securing good and better teaching. She is skilled in headteach- er performance management and successfully supports schools to validate their self-evaluation. She is the improvement partner to the Hertford- shire Virtual School for children looked after.


Paul joined the Hertfordshire advisory service in Hertfordshire in 2009, having previously been a senior leader in a Hertfordshire secondary school. He initially joined as the lead Assess- ment Adviser before becoming a School Effec- tiveness Adviser and then Deputy Leader of the Secondary Achievement Team. He took up post as the Education Services Director for Secondary schools in HfL on 1st


December 2016.


A science specialist, with over 20 years’ experi- ence of teaching in secondary schools, Paul has worked as both a subject and pastoral leader, and has particular interests in the use of assess- ment to support learning and in leadership and management.


Paul has an MA in educational leadership and management and is also an accredited execu- tive coach (ILM level 5). Through his work with schools, and membership of both CIEA and AAIA, Paul has up-to-date knowledge of current issues in education. Paul holds PQSI, and has current experience of inspection in secondary, primary and middle schools.


Talking about his recent employment, Paul said: “I am really looking forward to working with schools and headteachers to ensure that Hertfordshire maintains its high standards and achieves the best outcomes for all young people.”


Education Services Director for Disadvantaged Pupils Helen Jones


Chief Financial Officer Andy Griffiths


Chief Information Officer Christine Woodward


HR Director Helen Foster


Business Development Director Carole Bennett


Education Services Director for Primary Pat McAteer (until August 2017) Tracy Warner (from September 2017)


Education Services Director for Secondary Paul Wilson


If you would like to speak to a member of HfL's senior leadership team please contact them as follows:


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