About

About Clare Feeney she / her

Hello. I’m Teaching and Learning Lead in a large secondary school in North East England. Over the past few years, I’ve worked on our whole-school priorities including disciplinary reading, writing and oracy. Currently, I’m a Literacy Special Practitioner for our MAT. I’m also an Associate Consultant for The National Literacy Trust which includes designing training resources and delivering CPD sessions either in person or online for secondary schools. Please contact me via clarefeeneyuk.bsky.social or LinkedIn if your school is interested in any Literacy or Teaching and Learning CPD.

I’ve taught English at secondary level for over 25 years. In that time, I’ve built up a wide-range of experience in a variety of professional roles from departmental responsibilities to pastoral work. I’ve also undertaken a Local Authority Secondment, working on raising achievement post-16.

I present at conferences on aspects of Teaching and Learning, and write articles for various educational publications.

I was also part of a Critical Language Awareness (CLA) working party based at the English and Media Centre, developing approaches to teaching CLA in schools.

Read my critical language awareness statement here.

Find out more about my aims and vision for this space here.