Meet our wonderful team of advisors, who help to ensure the Natural Curriculum resources reflect the latest developments and best practices in primary teaching and learning:

Alison Turner

Alison has been teaching in primary schools for over 20 years. Since discovering the Natural Curriculum during lockdown, Alison became one of the site’s main contributors, writing numerous lessons for its multi award-winning KS2 grammar programmes. Passionate about wildlife from an early age, Alison frequently collected for animal charities and spoke out on environmental issues. More recently, inspired by Greta Thunberg’s climate strikes, Alison has worked closely with the headteacher at her current school to develop creative ways of bringing nature into the school curriculum.

Pete Hall

Pete is an experienced primary school teacher, having taught all the age groups. He was the head teacher of two inner-city primary schools in Leeds. He is a primary mathematics specialist. Pete has worked with the National Numeracy Strategy and has been the Senior Regional Coordinator of the NCETM. He is the author of a range of books and has written many internet based resources. He continues to work, running Able Maths Days for Authors Abroad.

Rachael Vaughan

Rachael Vaughan is an experienced primary school teacher, Assistant Head and Maths specialist. She currently works at Bute House Prep School in Hammersmith. Rachael is always looking for creative ways of teaching, that, while being rigorous in content, are relevant and engaging for the children. Through her interest in curriculum design, Rachael has been involved in producing a bespoke curriculum for her own school, which includes sustainability and respect for the natural world as a key component. Rachael loves nothing more than watching an awe-inspiring David Attenborough natural history programme with her family on a Sunday evening.

Will Ewens

Will is a Climate Action Advisor at Let’s Go Zero and works with schools in the South West to help them to find ways to reduce emissions, improve nature and biodiversity on school sites, as well as incorporate sustainability into a school’s culture and curriculum. He has worked in education for 19 years, most recently as a headteacher of two schools in Somerset. He has a great understanding of the challenges that school leaders are under and has these in mind when supporting schools.

Liz Woodham

Liz is Primary Coordinator for NRICH, where she helps to develop rich mathematical tasks, and guidance for teachers to support them in nurturing curious, resourceful and confident learners of mathematics. Liz was part of the NRICH team who worked in partnership with colleagues at the Natural Curriculum to develop and trial mathematical investigations inspired by the natural world.

Rachel Bradley

Rachel has been teaching in primary schools for over 25 years. During this time, she has been a Music, English, Geography and Teaching and Learning lead. Rachel has also been a KS2 writing moderator for 10 years. As a contributor and frequent user of the the Natural Curriculum resources, Rachel is always excited to see how engaged all children are as they watch the captivating clips and enjoy learning about the incredible biodiversity of life on Earth.

Verity Jones

Verity is an Associate Professor in the School of Education and Childhood at the University of the West of England, Bristol where she supports the training of primary teachers. Her research focuses on social and climate justice, drawing from her experience as a teacher and education officer with both charities and local government. Recent projects Verity has worked on include: developing integrated food systems in European schools with Food for Life; creating the online course ‘Who Made My Clothes?’ for international charity, Fashion Revolution; working with young people to design immersive learning experiences and exploring eco-anxiety with Global Goals Centre and Friends of the Earth; and working on an interdisciplinary project that developed creative learning tools to embed water scarcity and drought into UK classrooms.

Yvette Kydd

Yvette is an experienced primary school teacher, who now works at the University of the West of England as an Associate Lecturer/Visiting Tutor to post and undergraduate student teachers while they are on their school placements. She has worked as a local authority KS2 Writing Moderator since moderation was invented, and has been the Lead Moderator for the last several years. She uses her moderation and assessment knowledge and expertise to undertake contract work for the Standards and Testing Agency and other organisations, as well as working with schools on their provision and assessment of English. There is nothing she likes more than settling down with a good book!