Meet theTeam
Seven staff are based at The Learning Space and are available to plan, support, deliver and evaluate the centrally led or school led learning experiences in The Learning Space, as well as to participate in outreach programmes.
Sue Sayer
Learning and Teaching Team Leader : email
Sue is an Advanced Skills Teacher on secondment to the CPR Success Zone. As a Secondary Teacher, she has spent most of her career as a Geography and Leisure and Tourism Teacher, although she now considers herself a lead learner. She has held a number of management positions, including Head of Department, Head of Upper School, GNVQ Coordinator and ITT Coordinator. Her interest in accelerated learning and brain-based approaches began during an INSET day at Redruth School : A Technology College, led by Alistair Smith. More recent involvement with the University of the First Age, as a fellow, has enabled her to transform much of this educational theory into practice
Sue has led many innovative learning and teaching projects, including two 'Brain Wave' experimental school of the future projects; UFA Summer Schools and 'Brain Trains' - 'team building experiences for whole school staff'. In all these projects, Sue aims to enable learners of all ages to become autonomous yet interdependent, to integrate many cutting edge learning and teaching initiatives and to involve participants in the project planning. Sue has led national training sessions and written articles for Alite and the UFA
In her spare time, Sue studies a local Grey Seal colony.
Sandie Hawkey
Early Years Team Leader : email
Sandie entered education in 1992 as a Special Needs Assistant, working with children from Reception through to Year 6. In 1998 she moved to Camborne Nursery School as the school's Special Needs Assistant. A dynamic leadership by the school's head, Jean Webb, facilitated creative and visionary ideas. Realising the importance of the outdoor environment as a rich resource for children's learning, Sandie brought about the launch of 'Kernow Woodland Learning'
She is now on a full time secondment to the CPR Success Zone and regularly takes Foundation Stage children to local woodlands to explore, challenge, gain confidence and think creatively when covering all areas of the Foundation Stage curriculum. Most of all, the children have fun! More recently Sandie adapted the Kernow Woodland Learning philosophy and techniques to apply them in a sand dune setting in her Dynamite Dunes project
As a member of the CPR Team, Sandie has worked with a wider age range from Years 1 to 13 on a variety of collaborative cross-curricular challenges including Brain Wave II, III and Space Academy II.
Becky Williams
Learning and Teaching Team : email
After graduating from the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff with a BSc in Psychology and Communication, Becky progressed to Oxford Brookes University, where she was awarded an MSc in Cognitive Neuropsychology. Becky joined the staff at the CPR Success Zone in April 2003, as a member of the Learning and Teaching Team- planning, facilitating and evaluating the majority of the programmes delivered at the Learning Space. Becky is involved with the Campaign for Learning’s Learning to Learn action research project (Cornwall is one of three LEAs nationally who won the right to participate in this project), coordinating the project on a local level, as well as being actively involved with the action research at the CPR Learning Space.