TfW Primary Expert
Samantha is the former Deputy Headteacher of St George’s C of E Primary school in Battersea.
St George’s is a Talk for Writing training school in one of the most deprived areas of London. Sam led TfW at St George’s for over 10 years.
Talk for Writing was instrumental in transforming teaching and learning at St George’s and as such Samantha is passionate about ensuring all children are given the same opportunities to thrive.
Samantha also works for the National English Hub as a Literacy Specialist helping to support schools with all aspects of their English curriculum.
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samantha.reed-drake@talk4writing.com
Based in Oxfordshire. Available for training in the south and south east.
"Sam has been absolutely brilliant supporting our school as we embarked on our TfW journey. Through the high-quality training that Sam has delivered our staff have been inspired and excited to embrace TfW. Throughout, Sam has been on hand to offer support and encouragement enabling us to successfully implement TfW across our school."
"Samantha raised the expectations of what our children could do. The teachers were blown away by seeing what the children could achieve in such a short space of time. The staff have been totally inspired to take their teaching of writing to the next level. The very next day, they were using the tools/strategies modelled by Sam."