This conference will give you the latest updates in Junior, Prep and Pre-Prep settings and offer practical insights to take back to your school. There will also be an opportunity to share good practice with other delegates.
Christine Bailey is an award-winning Performance Nutritionist, Chef and Author with over 20 years of experience in the Health & Fitness, Corporate and Food industry. As Group Director of Nutrition & Wellbeing at Thomas Franks Christine heads up the nutrition & sustainability work for the company which embraces legislation support, menu design, recipe production, cookery demos, and nutrition support for schools including webinars, talks for staff, parents and children on all aspects of mental and physical health and wellbeing. Christine is a chair and judge of the Free From Foods Awards and works with the Natasha Research Foundation to support education and work on allergies particularly in schools. She is a well-known lecturer on nutrition in the UK and USA, author of over 14 health and recipe books including the Brain Boost Diet, My Kids Can’t Eat That, Go Lean Vegan & The Gut Health Diet. Christine is also a journalist for many health and fitness magazines and regularly appears in the media including BBC programmes on stress and teenage mental health.
Natasha Eeles is the founder of Bold Voices, an award winning social enterprise that prepares and empowers educational communities to recognise and tackle gender inequality and cultures of gender-based violence. Natasha has an academic foundation in issues of gender and equality with an MSc in Gender and International Relations from the University of Bristol. She has facilitated workshops and delivered lectures on gender equality, feminism and women's rights at multinational investment banks, start ups, schools and universities across the UK. In 2020 Natasha was part of the New Entrepreneurs Foundation Fast Track cohort following a 12-month entrepreneurial learning programme.
Dr Pat Preedy has had a long and distinguished career in education including being a global Chief Academic Officer for early childhood education, Executive Principal of a school catering for pupils from 3 months to 18 years with boarding, Head Teacher of one of the first Beacon Schools in the UK and a reporting Inspector for the Independent School Inspectorate. She completed her Masters degree in Educational Management particularly investigating how schools can work in partnership with parents and a doctorate in Education. Her school improvement work stretches across many countries including UAE, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Malaysia, China, India, USA, UK and Europe.
Pat has conducted extensive research into meeting the educational needs of multiple birth children. She was also part of the team that developed the performance indicators in primary schools’ value-added baseline assessments (University of Durham CEM centre).
Having led the Movement for Learning project (Loughborough University) which highlighted how daily movements based on children’s developmental stages can address developmental delay particularly with regard to balance, fine and gross motor skills, Pat developed Motor Movers for babies, toddlers and children (www.neuroway.ae). The Movement for Learning Project received the CYP Award for Early Years in 2016.
Michelle Winter joined ISI in September 2021 having previously worked at Ofsted for 11 years as one of Her Majesty’s Inspectors (HMI). This included leading inspections across maintained schools and academies, non-association independent schools, British schools overseas and initial teacher education. Michelle was also a Senior HMI for six years, managing a team of HMI and with leadership responsibilities including for the quality of inspections across the East of England region. Prior to joining Ofsted, Michelle was the headteacher of two London schools.
