WILLOW - Key Persons
Jo has worked in education for 14 years, teaching and supporting students from 3 to 18 years-old in a range of subjects, including mathematics, English, French, Chinese, as well as conservation education. Mainly supporting students with dyslexia, dyscalculia, autism and deafness, she has also supported students whose anxiety and poor mental health may be interfering with their education and learning. She was a youth mental health mentor for the charity, LifeSpace for over five years.
So many factors can adversely affect our learning, whether it be specific learning difficulties, anxiety, lack of confidence, tiredness or external events. Too often, these factors can obscure other talents and limit progress. Like other Willow consultants, Jo believes in looking at every child holistically, to work alongside them, to listen and to discover the best ways for them to learn and build confidence in themselves. Unique perspectives and non-conformist thinking can enhance the learning process, but only if they are discovered and nurtured. Individual support can help students realise their full potential by framing teaching and learning in a way that makes more sense to them.
While not involved in education, Jo loves to tramp through jungles and forests working and volunteering in wildlife conservation, including bees, bats, butterflies, dormice, hedgehogs, newts and toads, gibbons and pandas. Her most memorable moments were coming face-to-face with a large male orangutan in the Sabangau Forest in Borneo while tracking a family of gibbons, and holding her first sleepy dormouse.
Qualifications:
BA (Hons), MSocSc, MSc, Adv. Dip Overcoming Barriers to Mathematics, Certificate Fundamentals of Psychotherapy and Counselling, Youth Mental Health First Aider
Lorraine Payne is the owner of Willow and the main consultant
Lorraine has also worked as an Educational Consultant on the autism team of SEND Supported and is part of the EOTAS (Education Other Than At School) package for 3 young people through the local authority.
Lorraine is qualified to work with The Decider Skills which teach distilled Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Dialetical Behaviour Therapy.
She is trained in the use of Social Stories and PACE and has completed a Diploma in Hypnotherapy and Introduction to Counselling Skills.
Qualifications: Higher Diploma in Education, BA (Hons), Post Graduate Diploma in SEND including CPT3A for assessment and access arrangements. MA ED SEND. Diploma in Hypnotherapy and Introduction to Counselling Skills.
Born in South Africa, Tim trained in Primary Education. He has worked with children and adults as a teacher, headteacher, coach and mentor; and in Adult Education and Training as a Training Manager in the business sector.
Teaching is Tim's passion. He taught in South Africa and Botswana before moving to the U.K. in 1998 to take up a role as Headteacher of a primary school.
Leading three schools in England and an independent school the Middle East, he has embraced the individuality of students and their families, valued the co-operation of agencies and support services, and respected the differing needs and circumstances of everyone with whom he has been privileged to engage.
Qualifications: Higher Diploma in Education, National Professional Qualification in Headship.