Terry Rollings

Terry has been working in education for over 32 years. He has worked in a number of primary schools at a senior level, including four headships, and has held positions in the advisory services of three local authorities. The most recent of these was as Joint Head of School Improvement in an inner London Borough, where he had shared responsibility for the strategic direction and management of the service. He is an experienced Ofsted Inspector and has been the lead inspector on a number of inspections. Terry is currently the Director of School Improvement for Cocentra, which involves working directly with a variety of schools and local education authorities providing training and consultancy support.

Pat Doherty

Pat has worked in education for over 30 years with experience in middle and secondary schools across the country and in British Forces schools at a senior level. He has held advisory positions in two local authorities one in the south west as a curriculum advisor followed by a period as principal advisor in a London borough. At other points in his career Pat has worked for the DfES on the national School Improvement Advisor initiatve as well as the Department for Education in Bermuda assisting them in restructuring their education system. Pat is an experienced Ofsted inspector and has led substantial advisory, consultancy and training work for local authorities and schools both nationally and internationally. He is now the Principal Advisor for Cocentra where one of his responsibilities is their CPD and INSET programme.

Sharon Gray

Sharon has wide experience in Special Education including a headship of a very successful inner city Special School. Sharon is a qualified Ofsted Inspector and is a Team Teach Tutor. She led the hub centre, developing 20 Pupil Development Centres in mainstream schools within the London area.

Sharon has represented all London BESD schools at the National Association of EBD  Schools (NAES) and this led to her leading training for regional groups in behaviour management, visioning workshops and in special school Self- Evaluation Forms (SEF)

Chris Jacobs

Chris has worked in a number of primary schools at senior level. He has also worked in teacher training facilities overseas, secondary pupil referral units and in an advisory capacity for a local authority with specific focus on improving the quality of teaching and learning and advising on the management of behaviour. Chris currently works as a Senior Consultant Adviser for Cocentra which involves working directly with a variety of schools and local education authorities.

Martin Beale

Martin has significant experience at senior level in secondary schools and is a OfSTED registered inspector. He has been either the lead or team inspector in over 200 inspections. Other aspects of Martin's portfolio of experience include project management, financial management, quality assurance, performance management and advisory and support work with schools in all phases.

Frank Jones

Frank has extensive experience in education at both LEA and school level. He was a head teacher in two schools for over 15 years and worked as an adviser in both secondary and primary phases for two authorities. Prior to joining Cocentra as a Senior Adviser in November 2003 he was Assistant Director of Education for a Welsh Authority where his specific responsibilities were finance, personnel and school improvement. Frank is an Ofsted Inspector and has experience of the Estyn inspection system in Wales.