Working with Experts
At Oxford, we're working with leading experts to support you in your classroom.
Maureen Lewis
Dr Maureen Lewis has been involved in primary education for over 35 years. She has always been most interested in what really works in classrooms to support children in becoming readers and writers. Maureen has been a teacher, adviser, university researcher and lecturer and a member of the national strategies directorate team. Her most recent interests have focused on reading comprehension and the many creative and engaging ways in which teachers can support children in understanding the texts they read.
Di Hatchett
A national expert in intervention, Di's career in the field of primary education has spanned over 40 years including being a Headteacher and a local authority adviser responsible for primary literacy. Di served within the Primary Strategy's national team, initially taking a leading role on the development of literacy interventions and later serving as Senior Director responsible for the wide ranging cross-phase work on inclusion and intervention for children at risk of under-achievement.
Since 2008, Di has been Director of the Every Child a Chance Trust, a charity which has developed highly effective early intervention for the lowest achieving six and seven year olds, to bring them up to the level of their peers.
Marilyn Joyce
Marilyn had over 25 years' experience as a teacher and adviser in London before joining the National Strategies. She has worked on numerous materials for schools, including the influential SEAL (Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning) resources, as well as the ELS (Early Literacy Support) and FLS (Further Literacy Support) intervention materials. In 2006, she was asked to join the group to create Letters and Sounds.
From 2007-11, Marilyn led the National Strategies' Communication, Language and Literacy Development team. She is passionate about children's entitlement to high quality, precision teaching of phonics within a broad, rich literacy curriculum, so that they all learn to read and learn to love to read.
