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Meet the Team

Gwen Gilmore

Leader of the CPR Learning Partnership
 

 A little biography? My role within the Partnership is to support and direct the work of these three teams of staff as well as work closely on the schools on any school improvement issue they might have identified. I work in both primary and secondary schools and generally see each of the schools once a term. The work is certainly varied and interesting as I might be looking at foundation stage data in one setting, examining Learning Mentor practice in another and having a conversation about the Children’s Centre in another. For 2008-2011 my role will increasingly support the inclusion agenda through improving our work for pupils receiving fixed term exclusions - the Paul Hamlyn project in primary schools in particular.  I also have role in developing the professional capacity of Zone and other Extended Services cluster staff in developing Parent Support Advisor (PSA) roles and the National Programme for Specialist Leaders of Behaviour and Attendance (NPSLBA)

A large part of my remit is to support the extension of some of the good practice that we have developed with some of our additional funding. This is particularly applicable with the work of the SMART team where I have been fortunate to pick up on a visionary project to support multi-agency working in the school environment.

My background over the last 16 years has been in education. Most of this was in New Zealand. Much of this was in secondary schools, behaviour support work, delivering professional development on our Inclusion and SEN provision and a primary head teacher are amongst the experiences I bring to this project from the Land of the Long While Cloud. We have been in the United Kingdom for 4 years. I include a year at the chalk face in a Pupil Referral Unit, just over two years as a co-ordinator for the Behaviour Improvement Project (BIP) in Stoke on Trent and have been in post here for just over two years.

I am delighted to be part of an innovative and creative learning project. The schools have made very good progress in their results over the last few years with the impact of the additional funding and the opportunities this has provided. Several of our schools have received excellent Ofsted reports recently, in some cases with some reports of outstanding features.

Please feel free to comment on the work of the Partnership, the site or anything else you think is relevant.  

Rosemary Strongman

Finance and Administration Manager

I have worked in administration for over 30 years and apart from my secretarial qualifications I am a qualified Accounting Technician and more recently have become a member of the Chartered Management Institute. I have experience of working in 2 busy school offices so understand first hand the sort of challenges schools face financially.

Having remarried and moved from Wiltshire to Cornwall in 1999, I was lucky enough to obtain the post of Office Manager with the newly formed Education Action Zone. I am now the longest serving employee with the Partnership and have progressed to my current post of Finance and Administration Manager.

My outside interests include walking, reading and tracing my family history.

Claire Waterhouse

Senior Project Executive


 

Having lived in the Camborne area for most of my childhood, I completed my A levels at the (then) Camborne School Sixth Form and was extremely fortunate to be accepted on a retail management training programme for a well-known multi-national company – based at one of their branches in West Cornwall. After completing my training and a whirlwind couple of years which included me moving to Salisbury, and then Trowbridge, to manage small independent bookshops – I found myself back in Cornwall and ready for a new challenge.
 
In the autumn of 1992 I commenced my employment with Kerrier District Council as an Accountancy Assistant and a member of the Management Accounting team for that local authority. A major part of my role at that point developed into grant funding and monitoring for European funded projects that Kerrier was the sponsor for. From the experience gained in this role, I then secured a post in Kerrier’s newly appointed Community Regeneration Team (the first of its kind in the county) in 1998 as a Regeneration Officer with a specialism in grant funding and project monitoring. This gave me hands-on experience on how to consult with, and how to deliver and manage projects with the local community – right here in Camborne, Pool and Redruth.
 
In 2002, one son later, I was again searching for a new “part-time” challenge – building on my experience to date and utilising my skills for the good of our community. By chance I learned that the Success Zone needed an ESF (European Social Fund) Consultant, one day a week, to run one of their European grant-funded projects, and the rest, as they say, is history….. My current role is a Senior Project Executive, writing, managing and monitoring the Partnership’s grant funding bids.

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