Phonics Leap School Karachi
Yoshi Heffernan
Our Professional Trainers are highly experienced teachers who have taught with the programme in a classroom setting for many years. They have achieved excellent results with the programme and are keen to deliver effective synthetic phonics training in order to help others do the same. We have both Jolly Phonics Professional Trainers and Jolly Music Professional Trainers. You can contact them directly and discuss training options using the contact details you can find below.
Alternatively, you can find details for scheduled training courses around the world by clicking here. For details of our official online courses via CPD College, click here. For details of our Jolly Music Trainers, please click here.
Diego Zaffaroni is an international educator and consultant. He is qualified to teach in the UK and Italy; he worked for five years as a Bilingual Education School Coordinator, a project supported jointly by the British Council and the Italian Ministry of Education. Diego has experienced leadership roles at an innovative Cambridge school in Milan and an IB World School in Kurdistan, Iraq and was actively involved in the development of projects in International Education and English Language Teaching in the Middle East and Europe. He was Dean of Academics and PYP Coordinator at a newly established IB school in Mumbai which is part of a well-known group of schools across India. His training and consultancy experience has developed over ten years across three continents.
Grace provides literacy and phonics training in Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico and all of Argentina. She also visits individual schools, sharing her experiences and giving sound guidence on developing synthetic phonics.
Buenos Aires
Stella is a graduate teacher from the National University of Mar del Plata, Argentina. She has been teaching English for over 25 years to children and adolescents. She has developed EFL classroom projects at both private and state institutions. She works as an exams developer and as a Speaking Examiner.
Buenos Aires
Gisel graduated as an English Teacher at Instituto Nacional Superior del Profesorado Tcnico. She has taught children, teens and adults for over 18 years. She started using Jolly Phonics in 2013 in primary state schools in the city of Buenos Aires. She saw a huge change in her students' reading and writing skills as well as their pronunciation and comprehension of texts. She has trained teachers on this method at private and state schools for two years now.
Buenos Aires
Roxana is a graduate Primary School Teacher and Sworn Translator and has been teaching in both state and private schools and translating for many companies for the past 25 years within Buenos Aires. She has run her own School of Language, Leighton Institute since 1997 and has been the head of the English Department at Adveniat Secondary School since 2015.
Roxana first began to use Jolly Phonics in her teaching in 2013 after becoming involved in a Jolly Phonics pilot project for six states schools in Buenos Aires. The results of using Jolly Phonics was a turning point in Roxana's professional life. She now feels that her students look forward to their English lessons as they are attractive, fun and more memorable, and in turn the students have more confidence and have a complete understanding of what they are reading and writing. Before Jolly Phonics, Roxana felt there was something missing, but now the students have the necessary tools to read and write in English.
Tatiana first began working with Jolly Phonics in the year 2013 and was amazed to find out that there was an abysmal gap between groups that had been taught how to read and write with Jolly Phonics and the ones that had not. Since 2013, she has noticed that using Jolly Phonics has helped students read fluently, produce sounds more accurately and write more independently. She thinks Jolly Phonics provides children with a safe and fun learning environment.
She became an official Jolly Phonics trainer in the year 2007 and from then onwards she has trained teachers at different schools so that they could start implementing the Jolly Phonics programme to make a real difference.
Lanus, Buenos Aires
Fernanda Panzitta is a graduate English teacher of ISP DR. Antonion M. Saenz and is currently specialising in the teaching of phonics and phonology to young learners. She has been teaching English in kindergarten and primary levels for the past ten years. When she became aware of the Jolly Phonics programme, she was delighted with the results from the method, and immediately decided to apply it with her own students.
Fernanda has been teaching with Jolly Phonics for the past five years, finding it the key to aid students in their reading and writing processes. She has found that children love learning a new sound every day and that they are the ones asking for a new sound as soon as classes begin. She has noticed a wide difference in the way students read, write and pronounce in English. She now cannot imagine teaching without this method.
Fernanda would love to share her experience and ideas with teachers all over the world. She strongly believes that synthetic phonics works with all types of students and she will provide teachers with warm support, guidance and ideas, showing her care for an effective teaching experience.
New South Wales
Santina Di Mauro has been a NSW teacher for over 30 years, teaching in both state and independent schools. Santina has spent the last 10 years working as a literacy consultant to various schools around Australia, as well as working as an intervention teacher using the L3 and Jolly Phonics and Grammar programmes at a school in Sydney.
Santina has been a JollyPhonics Professional Trainer for 20 years, and has trained teachers in the UK, Asia, the Middle East and Australia. She is dedicated to providing teachers with training that gives them what they want as well as what they need throughout Australia and Asia.
Western Australia
Victoria Carlton, is the director of The International Centre for Excellence (ICE), and extensively uses Jolly Phonics to help West Australian children improve and succeed at literacy skills. She frequently travels to the UK to meet the authors and publisher of Jolly Phonics and to check on current research in this area. She developed and conducted her own programmes which are used with great success at her own centre in Australia and now in her licensed centre in Singapore.
Her workshops are so popular that she has now committed to travelling to Singapore 4 times annually to conduct the highly successful Jolly Learning training workshops. Her workshops are attended by participants from all over the Asia Pacific region. Victoria is convinced that Jolly Phonics is the most effective literacy programme available to teach literacy skills and was featured on the TV current affairs program, Today Tonight, to demonstrate and discuss the approach.
Adelaide, South Australia
Jan Polkinghorne has over 50 years teaching experience in both primary classrooms and tutoring children with specific learning difficulties and provides training in Jolly Phonics and Jolly Grammar. She is aware of research into Jolly Phonics and Jolly Grammar that demonstrates repeatedly the raising standards of reading and spelling. After retiring as Jolly Phonics Trainer for SPELD SA (Special Learning Difficulties Association), Jan has reduced her workload but still gives some training sessions.
Gawler South, South Australia
Annette Blackett is a passionate primary educator with over 14 years of experience teaching and training in Australia, England, Mozambique and Papua New Guinea. She is currently studying a Masters of Education, holds a Bachelor of Education (Primary) from Tabor Adelaide, and qualifications in Early Childhood Education, TESOL/ESL and Indigenous Affairs.
As a keynote speaker, Annette leads international teacher training seminars across Papua New Guinea, specialising in Early Childhood pedagogy, using the Jolly Learning programme, incorporating Jolly Phonics for the foundation years and Jolly Grammar for Years 1-6. She has had the pleasure of working with many diverse cultural groups and has seen the impact of Jolly Learning in a nation of people, with outstanding results in students, both children and adults.
Sunshine Coast and Brisbane
Prue graduated from Central Queensland University, Australia, with Distinction and is currently studying a Masters in Educational Leadership, specialising in Leading and Learning. Prue has taught from pre-prep to year 7 within Australia, England and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Prue has been teaching with the Jolly Phonics programme since 2013 and across many year levels, with the majority of students being ESL/EFL learners. She has found the Jolly Phonics programme to offer daily opportunities for creativity in developing phonics understanding. Jolly Phonics allows room to incorporate fun activities whilst still allowing students to develop fine motor skills. In the early years setting especially, fun equals increased learning!
When comparing Jolly Phonics with other programmes taught in Australia and England, Prue has seen a significant increase in student progress and achievement in their knowledge of sounds, reading, spelling and sentence writing. She sees her students working collaboratively with each other, which is great for peer-tutoring to occur. Students are able to start 'reading' and spelling within a number of weeks and the interactive elements within the programme keep students motivated and enthusiastic about their learning. Motivation and enthusiasm can be the difference between adequate progress and advanced progress.
Adelaide, South Australia
Kylie is an experienced educator, having worked in diverse educational settings in Singapore, England, and Adelaide for over 20 years. At a classroom and school level she has successfully implemented various synthetic phonics programs with students of different ages, abilities, and prior experiences.