Our Consultancy Services

We deliver highly recommended, bespoke CPD, support, and training, which is designed to fit the context of each school we work with and is aimed at developing teachers’ and leaders’ subject knowledge, so they can achieve the best outcomes for their children.

With our English Subject Support, we can help your school in ensuring all children leave primary education with the creative and technical language skills they need to be successful readers, writers and communicators for life.

We can help your school to review, refresh and redesign its curriculum to ensure that it meets the needs of your children and their community. With effective Curriculum Design, they will be prepared for life at secondary school and beyond.

Our Leadership Coaching supports middle leaders in education to understand what it takes to create a vision, make positive changes in their school, develop others, think strategically and evaluate successes to inform future plans.

"Ruth is a passionate and engaging consultant who uses her extensive knowledge to effectively prepare leaders and teachers to become reflective in their visions. Through her enthusiasm and a love for Reading and Writing, she leaves a lasting impact on her audience. A huge thank you for your guidance this year!"

About Minerva Learning

Ruth Baker-Leask

Director of Minerva Learning

Co-Chair of the National Association of the Advisors of English

Working in partnership with the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education

Creativity lies at the heart of good teaching.  The ability to be flexible, innovative and wise is the best way to succeed as a teacher in our ever-changing educational landscape. 

After leaving headship, I founded Minerva Learning as a way to use my expertise and experience to inspire teachers to be confident, innovative and to always teach like experts. We owe it to the children in our schools to put teachers and teaching back at the heart of our profession.  

We work with schools, trusts and networks across the UK, who want expert advice and support to find their own solutions to the unique issues they face, creating the very best curriculum through which their children can flourish. Contact us to see how we might work together.

What our clients tell us

“Ruth is one of the most knowledgeable, well-informed and enthusiastic people working in the field of primary English in the UK.”

I’ve learnt so much about education from her.”

 

James Clements, writer, researcher and author of ‘Teaching English by the Book’

 
“Ruth is a passionate and engaging consultant who uses her extensive knowledge to effectively prepare leaders and teachers to become reflective in their visions. Through her enthusiasm and a love for Reading and Writing, she leaves a lasting impact on her audience. A huge thank you for your guidance this year!”

Lynne Paino, Headteacher, Crocketts Primary, West Midlands
“Love working with Ruth. She is a bridge from the best of the past to the potential of the future imbued as she is with mastery and a depth of understanding of the raising standards for all learning and teaching whilst remaining passionate about the international context, comparisons, and needs for children to thrive

Peter Hall Jones, Founder of the Curriculum Foundation

Follow us on Pinterest & discover our Book Web

One of the aims of the National Curriculum is to ‘develop a love of literature through widespread reading for enjoyment’. So whatever book you’re reading to your class, or planning from, link it to other similar titles to get the children reading more widely.

We have developed these simple book webs to get you started – all are available on Pinterest so follow us today!

Please leave any suggestions you have of other books that could get caught in the web!

 

Find out how we can help your school today