Curriculum Thinkers Conference 2025: full lineup revealed
Schools from across the Curriculum Thinkers Community and wider We Are In Beta network have been busy nominating subject specialists to celebrate their work at our online Curriculum Thinking Week Conference 2025
Those subject experts have been even busier planning, recording and submitting sessions.
And you’ve probably been wondering:
What will I be learning?
Who will I be learning it from?
What resources have they kindly offered to share with me?
Well, wonder no more.
You. Are. In. For. A. Treat.
It’s time to reveal the full lineup for Curriculum Thinking Week Conference 2025!
Huge shout out to nominators and speakers for making this possible.
80+ talks, hundreds of resources, across every aspect of subject and curriculum expertise.
What subjects and curriculum topics will you be learning about at Curriculum Thinking Week 2025?
If you register before 23rd March you’ll be able to learn how the awesomely generous, knowledgable and passionate practitioners below are tackling the following issues across 15 different subjects:
AI
Modelling
Reading
Writing
Revision
Mini white boards
Retrieval
Marking
Assessment
Getting garde 9s
Mixed ability teaching
Learning walks
Timetabling
When you register, we’ll send you a private link giving you access to all sessions and resources inside the co
Plan your Curriculum Thinking Week Conference 2025: preview the interactive lineup
Use the interactive conference lineup to find everything you need to know about the 80+ sessions inside the conference.
titles, objectives, impact summaries, resources and more
Sort and filter the sessions by:
subjects, session key words and audience.
Who are the Curriculum Thinkers 2025 speakers?
These subject specialists and curriculum leaders have kindly agreed to share years and years of hard earned subject wisdom so you can learn from it:
🎯 Leading you subject
Omar Deria (The Excelsior Academy); Adam Walton (Dover Grammar School for Girls); Leo Dudin (Oakham School); Gavin Weir (Kings Academy Ringmer); Lainy Spinks (Harris Garrard Academy); Richard Bustin (Lancing College);
🤖 AI applications across subjects
Lee McLinden (Fulwood Academy); Tom Rye; Jo Hughes (Berkhamsted Schools Groups); Luke Harris (Bloxham School); Jack Weston (Bow School);
🎨 Art
Adam Elias (Leigh Academies Trust); Matt Stimpson (Beckfoot School);
💸👩💻 Business, Computer Science & IT
Robert Turley (Oakwood Park Grammar School); Adam Hirst (Future Academies); Luke Harris (Bloxham School);
📐🥗 Design Tech & Food
Edward Charlwood (United Learning & Oasis Community Learning); Liam Anderson (Trinity School, Newbury); Matt Stimpson (Beckfoot School);
📚 English
Louise Ward (Harris Ockendon); Matthew Moore (Queen Mary's); Oli McVeigh (Ferndown Upper School); Rebecca Abbott (Harris Church of England Academy); Joshua Clarke (The Spires College); Yvonne Eba (St Paul's Academy); Grace Savage (Holy Trinity Crawley CofE); Cathryn Parkes (West Walsall E-Act Academy); Susan Strachan (St Bernadette Catholic School); Chris Webb-Cook (Ipswich Academy);
🌎 Geography
Katherine Baulcomb (Westminster City School); Fiona Sheriff (Kingsthorpe College); Catherine Owen (The King Alfred School an Academy); Richard Bustin (Lancing College); Kate Stockings (Future Academies); Arnold Jan H Reesink (Lancing College);
📅 History
Lila Cherrih (Whitefield School); Flora Burt (Chiltern Learning Trust); Emily Pringle (Lincoln Minster School); Emmy Quinn (Newminster Middle School); Harry Hudson (West London Free School); Christopher Batt (Beaumont School); Jonathan Mountstevens (Beaumont School); Alex Fairlamb (Kings Priory School);
🧭 RE
Nikki McGee (Hethersett Academy and Inspiration Trust); Ria Searle (Northwood School); Charlotte Newman (Archway Learning Trust);
👋 Languages
Luke Hashman (Kings Langley School); Esmeralda Salgado (Princes Risborough School); Ben Harrison; Ben Levi (The James Hornsby School); Francesca Urquhart (Kings Academy Ringmer); Melody Valois (Alderley Edge School for Girls);
📊 Maths
Sophie Comer (Hazelwick School); Louis Ronald Kisitu Ssekabira (St Paul's Academy); Amarbeer Singh Gill (Greenshaw Research School); Shabana Anjum and Mohammed Rahman (Challney High School for Girls); Jemma Sherwood (Ormiston Academies Trust);
🎭 💃🎶 Performing Arts, Dance, Drama & Music
Rosie Devine (Coombe Wood School); Francesca Urquhart (Kings Academy Ringmer); Matt Stimpson (Beckfoot School);
⚖ PSHE
Nicole Campbell (Lilian Baylis Technology School); Helen Kennedy (Northampton School for Boys); Ria Searle (Northwood School);
🧬 Science
Joanne Crofts (The Hart School); Simon Shanks (Ormiston Academies Trust); Lucy Wallis (Stretford Grammar School); Rebecca Lennon & Jennifer Bates (Invictus Education Trust); Beejesh Deva (Moorside High School); Kate Bridge (Haberdashers Girls School); Simon Poliakoff (The Priory School, Hitchin);
🧠 Social Science
Lucia Berridge (The King John School); Kirstie Smith (Thomas Clarkson Academy); Katie Forrester (Ralph Allen School); Lucinda Powell (Abingdon School); Holly Smith (Meden School); Lyndsey Hayes (Westminster Tutors Independent Sixth Form College);
🎯 Senior Curriculum Leadership
Jess Payne (St Helen's); Sarah Kilty (MEA Central); Bryony Paul (Queensbury Academy); Lisa West (Challney High School for Girls); Stephen Bodman (King's Leadership Academy Liverpool); Kylie Rio-Wood (Ted Wragg Trust); Peter Foster (Bridgwater and Taunton College Trust); Liam Johnson (Fulwood Academy);
📝 They'll also be sharing a set of resources alongside their talks so you can download the tools, systems and processes they've used to implement their work.
🤯 When you read them, you begin to wonder just how many years of learning, discussing, testing, refining, etc. they've gone though to get them to where they are today - the mind boggles.
🙏 We are incredibly fortunate to have them all in one place - huge thanks to all of them for getting involved (and their schools/MATs for supporting their submissions)
🗓️ Curriculum Thinking Week 2025 is free to attend, if you register before 4th July.
After 04/07, only speakers and premium members will have access.
If you've ever bemoaned the lack of subject-specific and curriculum CPD and case studies out there, don't pass up this opportunity.
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