Julie Gibbings, Schools Manager

I develop and manage our membership network for school and literacy professionals. With the team, I research outstanding and innovative literacy practice and support network members to discover and try these new approaches in the classroom, library and across the whole school. I also manage Transforming Writing, an action research project which is trialling how to effectively embed formative assessment into the teaching of writing.

I was previously a secondary school teacher, and have worked on a wide range of projects for schools and alternative education. For me, literacy is absolutely vital to enable people to participate fully in society.     

Contact Julie: 020 7820 6267 julie.gibbings@literacytrust.org.uk

Susie Musgrove, Schools Officer

My role is to support our members to make sure they get the most out of their membership, so please come to me with any queries about accessing the network benefits, and I'll do my best to help.

I also run our national literacy competitions and love coming up with exciting ideas to help you motivate your pupils.

Contact Susie: 020 7820 6268 susie.musgrove@literacytrust.org.uk

Judy Clark, Network Adviser (primary)

I have a complete passion for all things primary! These formative years are so crucial in building effective, confident communicators and thinkers - readers and writers for life and it continues to be my joy as a teacher, leader and literacy specialist consultant to help seek out excellence in theory and practice to help inform, inspire and support professionals in transforming the lives of our primary pupils.  

Contact Judy: judy.clark@literacytrust.org.uk

Francine McMahon, Network Adviser (secondary)

 In this role, I am privileged in being able to research theory while developing and capturing outstanding literacy practice in English and across all subjects in secondary schools. It is my belief that if we as a teaching profession talk about and share strategies that help pupils speak, read, write and think, then we not only inspire our profession, but will give our younger generation the best possible chance in life. Formerly, I was an Assistant Head Teacher in a secondary school in Tower Hamlets and a Secondary National Strategy Literacy consultant. I also now work as a Senior Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University for Teach First.

Contact Francine: francine.mcmahon@literacytrust.org.uk