KP80 - A Phonics Day: A whole school approach to Phonics - Part 1

She is a graduated English teacher who has 30 years of classroom experience. She is currently Head of Primary at Colegio San Antonio, a bilingual school in San Antonio de Areco, Buenos Aires. She works part time as an Educational and Literacy Consultant offering advice and training to schools and teachers. She is a Jolly Phonics professional trainer for Latin America, providing training in synthetic phonics in English and Spanish. She has recently come from her second trip to England where she was invited by the Inspector of British Schools and Chairman of the English Speaking Union in Oxford, Geoffrey Goodall. She spent a month in Oxford where she visited several schools and worked at Rye St Antony School, where she observed lessons and helped deliver the curriculum. There, she gained experience in the best and last teaching practices and has learnt more about the latest teaching of reading and writing through synthetic phonics. Since 2006 she goes to the UK every year to get training, visit and work in schools. In 2010 she was offered to be professional trainer on Phonics International a spelling and phonics programme created by Debbie Hepplewhite.