Helen Sharpe

Helen works at The Radclyffe School in Oldham as English AST and Lead Teacher for Literacy. She has worked tirelessly to build a culture of reading through regular assemblies and whole-school initiatives while trialling and sharing best practice in pedagogy. Helen is passionate about curriculum design and led the development of a KS3 curriculum which followed 'the journey of literature' in her faculty, underpinned with fortnightly grammar and reading/spelling lessons. This curriculum was designed to be rich in high-quality texts, academic language and challenge and it has thus far had transformative results. She believes in high levels of challenge for all students regardless of ability or need.