Elmaz Soyal is currently Head of The Creative Arts Faculty and Academy Publicity Coordinator at Aylward Academy. She strives for the Arts to become a faculty of excellence in teaching,...
“The PTI events are imaginatively conceived, superbly organised, and probably unique in this country. To invite committed teachers to come together and debate with leading experts and practitioners in their subjects - and in such intimate and conducive settings! it's a brilliantly simple way to inject fresh ideas, new ambitions and sheer inspiration into classrooms. I always feel excited when asked to participate.”
Kim Hanley studied medieval history at Lancaster University and focused her special subject on the reign of Richard III. She then went on to complete her PGCE in Lancaster at...
Lucy Meyer is Head of Modern Foreign Languages at Bexley Grammar School. She studied French and Spanish at Nottingham University, followed by a PGCE gained at the Institute of Education....
"What we are doing with young people in schools, by teaching them music, is beginning their life-long exploration of music, not creating the finished article. I had been sufficiently enthused at school by the strange alchemy of music to want to learn more. Teachers have a difficult and challenging job and I have enormous admiration for what teachers do. The Prince's Teaching Institute plays an incredibly important role in helping teachers start the engines, so that young people will go on wanting to learn more and in time discover their own musical humility."
Nell Macleod grew up with a dedicated and committed music teacher for a mother, so it runs in her blood. Having completed her degree at Kings College, London and trained...