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Teacher Advisory Group (TAG)

Our Teacher Advisory Group is made up of active teachers from around the UK.

They draw on their real-world experience to shape our services, and help ensure we are successful at meeting the needs of young people, as well as educators.

  • Harry French
    Chair of Advisors

    Harry French is currently the Head at Cliff Park Ormiston, and was previously Principal at Nottingham Academy as well as Executive Principal at Ash Green Academy in Coventry, Greenwood Academy, and the Firs Primary School.

    Harry secured rapid improvement in both contexts but notably led Greenwood to secure a Good judgement from inadequate in just 15 months.

    Harry is a Future Leader for Ambition School Leadership.

  • Matthew Partington
    Group member

    Matthew Partington is headteacher of Roundhay all-through School in North Leeds.

    Matthew was previously Associate Principal of Ossett Academy, Wakefield, which secured ‘Outstanding’ for Leadership in 2013.

    He then became Principal of Goole Academy in the East Riding of Yorkshire, securing its removal from Special Measures.

  • Allison Redshaw
    Group member

    Allison Redshaw is Deputy Headteacher and Careers Leader at Walney School in Cumbria.

    Allison has extensive leadership experience in a variety of schools in the North.

    She is passionate about providing opportunities for students to meet employers from every sector so that they understand the vast range of careers available to them, and to grant them a vision of what their future could look like.