Who are we?
Sarah O'Neill
Leadership | School Improvement | Curriculum & Assessment
Areas of Expertise
● Whole school quality evaluation, self-evaluation and Ofsted readiness
● Curriculum design, sequencing and implementation
● Leadership development, coaching and mentoring
● Assessment, moderation and data analysis
● Apprenticeship and trainee teacher assessment
Sarah is a fully qualified teacher (QTS) with over 20 years senior leadership and teaching experience in spanning multi-academy trusts, schools, SCITTs and oversees education.
She has led school improvement programmes and curriculum design in both secondary and primary settings, including in a large all through schools. As a Headteacher and senior leader, she has played a pivotal role in transforming schools’ Ofsted gradings from Special Measures to Good within short timescales.
Sarah also has a strong focus on inclusion and safeguarding. She has significant coaching experience supporting postgraduate students, trainee teachers, early career teachers and apprentices, adapting her approaches to support individual needs.
Her strategic expertise centres on curriculum design and implementation, whole school quality evaluation, leadership development and Ofsted-readiness. She has led the design of a bespoke, sequential and progressive curriculum for large all through academies, overseen significant improvements in pupil outcomes, and worked closely with senior leaders, middle leaders and governors to build leadership capacity through coaching, mentoring and professional development.
Sarah understands that thriving colleagues create thriving schools. She champions reflective practice, emotional intelligence and distributed leadership models that allow individuals at every level to contribute meaningfully. Her facilitation style is calm, thoughtful and grounded, creating safe spaces for leaders to explore challenges, build confidence and develop sustainable habits of excellence.
Sarah holds a BSc (Hons) in Counselling and Therapeutic Studies, QTS in primary education, NPQ (Primary Education), Trauma Informed and Attachment Aware Lead and DDP Level 1.
Contact Sarah on: 07398 241346
Who are we?
Angie Kirkwood-Lalanne 07894 208207
Teacher Educator | Lesson Planning Specialist | Educational Researcher
Areas of Expertise
● Reducing teacher burnout and improving teacher retention through teacher development, coaching, academic research and lesson planning frameworks
● Coaching and performance evaluation for trainee and practising teachers
● Design and delivery of Level 3 to Level 7 teacher training qualifications
● Trainee teacher observation and assessment
● Research-informed approaches to reducing teacher workload and burnout
Angie is a fully qualified French Teacher and Teacher Educator (QTS, PGCE) bringing 30 years of experience across the education and corporate sectors, including secondary, further education and ITT.
In addition to private consultancy, Angie works as a Teacher Educator at a large FE college group designing and delivering successful teacher development programmes and qualifications across Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Surrey. She also works in quality assurance consultancy for a leading national ITT provider, observing, coaching and supporting trainee teachers across the South of England.
These roles have required her to spend many hundreds of hours observing new and beginning teachers, studying the knowledge gaps which exist between theory and practice and researching how to address them.
As part of this work, Angie is currently completing an MSc in Teacher Education at the University of Oxford. Her research and academic focus has led directly to the development of the Aim-to-Impact Model, the five-step lesson planning framework which forms the foundation for The Aim Education Partnership's pedagogical training and coaching work.
This framework has already been applied successfully in academic settings and has proven highly effective in developing the lesson planning skills and raising the confidence of new, beginning and experienced teachers. It gives teachers a clear, practical process for planning, guiding them from a well-defined learning aim, through scaffolded outcomes, to purposeful activities and meaningful checks on learning — closing the gap that so often exists between good subject knowledge and confident, effective lesson planning.
Angie also holds a BA (Hons) in French with Distinction from the University of Nottingham, a PGCE with Distinction from the University of Sussex and is a qualified Mentor and Performance Coach. She is fully bilingual in French and English, having lived in France for many years.
Contact Angie on: 07894 208207