Fiona Evans Email & Phone Number

Fiona provides pedagogic leadership to raise standards in English across the Trust, through modelling of excellent teaching, resource creation and bespoke CPD, delivered on an individual, school-level and also Trust-wide basis. As Director of Learning, Fiona develops and leads cross-functional projects that transform teaching and learning in English to raise standards and positively impact the lives of predominantly disadvantaged children across 39 primary schools in the North of England. These projects involve collaboration with senior leaders, external partners and over 1000 teachers.Headteachers and their senior leadership teams are both supported and challenged to ensure consistent and robust implementation of the Talk for Writing and Reading strategies, accelerating progress and embedding a love of reading and writing for all children, but particularly those from disadvantaged communities.Oracy skills are developed in children through playful performance, alongside confidence, self-belief, and a love for the magic of stories.As a senior leader, Fiona also delivers training to ECTs and their mentors as part of The Teaching School Hub, using evidence-based pedagogy from the Education Endowment Foundation.

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

As Outreach Project Manager for the British Library, I supported the development of an audience engagement strategy for their Discovering Literature collection, bringing archived material to life through a series of successful and well-attended digital and in-person events. These webinars and workshops have enabled the British Library to share archived material to teachers and students from across the globe, deepening understanding of the social, historical and political context of key works of literature. By building a trusted network of professionals from the academic, arts and cultural sectors, these events have successfully connected audiences to not only poets, authors and playwrights but also spoken-word hip hop artists, comic book illustrators and musicians, in addition to traditional academics, ensuring an accessible and inspiring programme of events for all. Texts include Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, An Inspector Calls, A Christmas Carol, Jekyll & Hyde and the Power and Conflict poetry anthology. In 2024 my focus moved onto the Discovering Children’s Books collection: various projects run concurrently. I have hosted and curated various live ‘Authors into Schools’ events, providing children with the opportunity to meet, interact and be inspired by their favourite authors such as Michael Rosen, Jasbinder Bilan, Patrice Lawrence and SF Said, engaging in activities to promote a lifelong love of reading and writing for pleasure. In addition to this, I develop and deliver CPD events for primary teachers, demonstrating the vital importance of providing different ways to inspire and engage children – our most recent events have seen Farrah Serroukh discuss the results of CLPE’s Reflecting Realities reports and the importance of ensuring representative and inclusive literature within the classroom, and Professor Teresa Cremin share the impact of providing children with creative agency to increase their motivation when it comes to reading and writing.

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Fiona is passionate about the power of storytelling and has a strong interest in traditional tales and folklore - particularly how these stories have been adapted and used over time. Her experience of developing a love for stories in secondary schools, primary schools and Early Years settings has provided her with a wealth of experience and passion that enables Fiona to inspire and engage all ages.Current projects:- Outreach Project Manager for the British Library Learning (North) - online primary and secondary teacher CPD Events featuring a range of authors, academics and expert teachers (Cook up your own fairy tales, GCSE English Literature text events: A Christmas Carol, Macbeth, An Inspector Calls), face-to-face student event - Step into Shakespeare (In collaboration with Leeds Playhouse)-Education and Improvement Advisor - Fledge-ECT Teacher and Mentor training and development (The Teaching School Hub - Selby, Wakefield, Barnsley, Doncaster)-Teacher CPD: - Creating a culture of reading for pleasure - Imagery for inference: how to use picture books, images and graphic novels to teach inference

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

BrainyBoots Education was established in 2020 by Fiona, a passionate and dedicated senior teacher, experienced in both secondary and primary settings. Delivering engaging, high-quality tuition that builds a pupil’s confidence and self-esteem is the BrainyBoots way – whether that be learning phonics as building blocks to word recognition in Year 1, exploring the order of operations in maths in Year 6, or the contextual analysis of Shakespeare in Year 11.As an experienced teacher, Fiona’s expert classroom knowledge enables her to deliver bespoke curriculum workshops to support classroom learning, themed workshops tied into celebration days and extra-curricular enrichment. You can be reassured that your children are engaged in purposeful learning with sessions that promote exploration and the enjoyment of creative freedom.-quality, interactive school workshops linked to your class text, curriculum topic or PSHE focus-enrichment sessions using popular films and stories as stimuli, linked to events such as Shakespeare Week or using a topic of your choice-extra-curricular sessions to take place after school, bookable by parents-school production support for end of year / Christmas shows-National Curriculum objectives supported where applicable

Leeds, United Kingdom

Huddersfield, United Kingdom

York, United Kingdom

Leeds, United Kingdom

Leeds, United Kingdom

Leeds, United Kingdom

Yorkshire

Arts Education Consultant- Tinshill Learning Centre Pupil Referral Unit, Leeds and Rathbone Education, York.

Postgraduate Degree, National Professional Qualification For Headship (Npqh)

Innovation In Learning, Educational Leadership And Administration, General, Diploma

Graduate Teacher Programme, Teaching: Primary And Secondary Education

Qualified Teacher Status

Level 3 Certificate In Delivering Learning, Adult And Continuing Education And Teaching, City And Guilds Level 3: Merit

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Literature, Theatre, Film And Television, 2:1 (Hons)

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Media Technology, Year One