Champions & Collaborators

Verity Jones is a senior lecturer in the Department of Education and Childhood at the University of the West of England, Bristol. She is education advisor to the Global Goals Centre and the international sustainable charity Fashion Revolution. She is Director of Bristol Achieve, supporting disadvantaged learners in the city, Trustee to the Darwin Centre for Biology and Medicine and Primary English consultant to Oxford University Press. Her research focuses on sustainable futures.

Harri is Schools and Colleges Manager at the Ellen Macarthur Foundation. His focus is on curriculum development and capacity building, research into, and the development of, teaching and learning materials. Harri began his career in education teaching English as a Foreign Language before working as an English Teacher at the International School of Choueifat, Abu Dhabi. Upon completion of his PGCE on at Portsmouth University, Harrison taught English, creative writing and physical education at Christ the King College on the Isle of Wight. Harri has also had a number of roles in outdoor education teaching young people to sail, surf, and kayak.

Rachael holds the role of Manager, Cymbrogi Conversations. She has recently finished an MSc in Sustainable Development, specialising in sustainable diets and agriculture. Having studied Spanish and Italian at Swansea University, she holds the South Wales coast close to her heart. Her pedagogical experience extends to her time as a British Council English teacher at the Universidad Autónoma in Chile. Rachael has combined her passion for sustainability, languages, the outdoors, teaching and people in this role.

Rachael holds the role of Manager, Cymbrogi Conversations. She has recently finished an MSc in Sustainable Development, specialising in sustainable diets and agriculture. Having studied Spanish and Italian at Swansea University, she holds the South Wales coast close to her heart. Her pedagogical experience extends to her time as a British Council English teacher at the Universidad Autónoma in Chile. Rachael has combined her passion for sustainability, languages, the outdoors, teaching and people in this role.

Shaun is a qualified sports scientist with an honours degree in human performance, specialising in a whole body, whole person approach to health and wellbeing. Drawing upon 12 years of knowledge and experience in movement coaching, injury rehabilitation and embodied learning, Shaun works as a Movement Coach and Somatic Facilitator. He helps his clients redefine wellbeing beyond the physical body, including mental, emotional and relational wellbeing. His philosophy holds that we can make changes to ourselves and our bodies for the better, at any stage of our lives. We don’t have to settle for 'this is just the way it is.’ Shaun makes the critical connection between mind and body, and with this, empowers others to get unstuck, recover from injury and increase their energy and vitality. His ultimate hope is for people to move with ease, think clearly and perform optimally in an ever changing world, with minimal sacrifice to their overall health.

Primary teacher turned university lecturer, Nanna was highly significant in the work with the Curriculum in the Wales development, with her work with AOLE for Health and Wellbeing and the progression steps. Nanna has developed a Welsh-medium Special Education Needs provision, and now focuses on the Additional Learning Needs provision. She has a particular interest in dyslexia and literacy difficulties as well as Autistic Spectrum Disorder.

Head teacher; interim headteacher; additional inspector for OFSTED and Estyn. As Director of Introteach/Cyfle Dysgu’s successful Thrive programme, which focuses on the wellbeing of school leaders, Geoff is very motivated by the idea of using his knowledge and experience of successful change management to equip and support the current and next generation of school leaders, and in turn, make a significant difference to the lives of pupils, staff and the community around a school.