Gail Bedford, headteacher at the Mountpleasant Primary School in Dudley, West Midlands, has been asked by Deryn Harvey, a director at the Innovation Unit, to co-ordinate the project. She is currently drawing together a group of people from settings around England who have already shown enthusiasm for the pioneering work carried out at the Dudley school.
Mrs Bedford said there would be representatives from a nursery, a nursery and infant school, and primary schools. The group will also include an advisory teacher working with ICT and an advisory teacher seconded to work with the Foundation Stage and transition.
'Some of the people are already involved in transition work, and others are expressing a real interest and want to do this work,' she added. 'But it is a management issue in schools, and a classroom teacher cannot make that decision themselves. They need their phase co-ordinator's co-operation or the headteacher's permission to do more than tweak the environment.'
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