Our Partners

Teacher Development Agency for Schools

The Ethos Project has been commissioned and funded by the teacher development agency for schools, under their national priorities programme

KFES Ltd

KFES is the lead organisation delivering The Ethos Project. KFES is an education consultancy specialising in innovative projects and programmes in secondary schools. Led by Richard Kennell KFES is currently involved in leading two 14-19 consortia as they prepare for the delivery offour diploma lines from 2009. KFES also advises on and trains schools and colleges in the use of Common Application Processes and INdividual Learning Plans.

Richard Kennell, Director of KFES, has been a Deputy Head in a successful maintained secondary school. In his 15 year teaching career he spent many years on school leadership teams and prior to that as an AST specialising in International Education. As a Deputy Head he has been instrumental in curriculum change and has worked with Dylan William on the Assessment for Learning pilot and with David Hargreaves on Personalising Learning.

Fifth Model Solutions

Fifth Model Solutions is led by Jon Berry. Jon is also the director of Frontiers and organisation that provies an alternative curriculum for students who are disengaged or disaffected at school. The programme has been enormously successful and one local Headteacher describes the work that JOn does as "transforming the lives of young people".

The young people engaged in this programme follow a course based around developing personal skills. The course culminates in working with an orphanage in Bulgaria.

Jon Berry has been a teacher and middle manager in FE. He has also worked for a number of blue chip companies designing and implementing change management programmes. His largest contract was to take 10000 employees through a change management programme.

Wasted Potential

Michael Drennan works for Wasted Potential Theatre Company. He is an experienced teacher in both the maintained and independent sectors and has worked in a range of educational settings. He has taught a range of subjects and at Middle Management Level has led the Citizenship and PSHE programme.

Michael has spent the last two years engaged in an MA course in Character Education. It is this MA and Michael's academic work in this field that forms the basis of the first phase of the programme.

We are very grateful to the three schools at which phase 1 of the project will be held

Matthew Arnold School, Oxfordshire

Maidenhill School, Gloucestershire

Tiffin School, Kingston on Thames

One of the organisations that will act as a case study in phase 2 is

Frontiers: Adventures in Learning