Testimonials
Senior Staff - Cover
Simon has helped us with a number of projects, including most recently taking charge of the fluent and effective management of our highly complex admissions cycle last year when we were short-staffed because of long-term illness of a senior member of staff.
Simon is highly intelligent, very experienced and a very effective communicator and team player who will quickly establish both confidence on the part of, and rapport with, any colleagues with whom he is working. He has excellent IT skills and quickly displayed an excellent understanding of the processes and constraints. He worked extremely effectively with colleagues in managing this process and in communicating with prep schools and other stakeholders and it is always a pleasure to work with such a highly competent, able and flexible colleague.
With his great experience of senior management and leadership within education, Simon has an enviable ability quickly to pick up an issue or area of responsibility and to take people with him as necessary to achieve successful outcomes. Having been a Head of Department, Director of Studies, Deputy Head and Head across a number of different schools in his highly successful career in educational management and leadership, there is almost no area of school life of which he does not already have a deep understanding and he has a natural feel for the life and priorities of both boarding and day environments, having worked for many years in both settings.
I have no hesitation in recommending him and I do so without reservation.
[Head, HMC Boarding and Day School].
Departmental Appraisal
Thank you for your excellent, comprehensive independent review of our Mathematics Department, which considered how the department was organised, assessed the quality of the lessons and the pupils’ work, interrogated the scope and relevance of the schemes of work, and judged how well pupils achieved in relation to their ability.
The review was thorough and searching, and the observations and recommendations made in the well-structured, cogent 5,500-word report were well evidenced and founded on secure judgments.
As a result the department is in the process of making a number of key changes which will undoubtedly result in better outcomes for the pupils, enabling them to achieve their potential (and beyond) in their study of mathematics.
[Head, GDST School]
Departmental Appraisal
Simon Wilson came to do inspect our Mathematics Department, and it is hard to describe what a thorough and professional job he did. He managed to gather a great deal of information in a short time and his report was insightful and wise. All pupils, teachers and the Head of Department enjoyed talking to him and the process had none of the bureaucracy or sense of threat one could picture from a mock inspection. However, his report was candid and contained excellent suggestions for marginal improvements. I can recommend him wholeheartedly and we would certain use him again in the future.
[Director of Learning and Innovation GSA School]
Pupil Feedback
"Thank you so much for teaching me these last two years. I am so grateful for your endless patience and the different ways you address each question in your attempt to create as much clarity as possible. I have really enjoyed maths and would like to thank you for making me a confident mathematician.
[ Year 13 pupil who achieved A*, A*, A*]
Pupil Feedback
"Thank you so much for teaching me maths so wonderfully over the last year. I am so happy with my results in maths and would never have been able to achieve them if you hadn’t taught me so patiently throughout the year. I am particularly happy with my FP3 mark as it definitely took a journey to get there and two months ago I wouldn’t have thought it possible.
I so appreciate how much time you spent helping me and explaining things to me and thank you for putting up with a stream of algebraic errors!"
[Year 13 pupil who achieved A*, A*, A*, A*]
Pupil Feedback
"I want to thank you for all your help over the last year. I honestly don’t think I would’ve survived the interview process without you. Your help with STEP has also made a world of difference, and again – I don’t think I would’ve come this far without you. Thank you for being patient with me when I’m having one of my idiot moments, and thank you for laughing at me when I’m having one of my really idiotic moments :)"
[Year 13 pupil who achieved A*, A*, A* and STEP Mathematics]
Senior Staff -Coaching
Thank you for all your patient help and support. All your sage advice when dealing with some tricky situations has been invaluable.
[Director of Studies, HMC/IAPS School]
Response to ISI Inspection
.....the result would not have been possible without you personally and your prodigious efforts on behalf of the school and the pupils. Your input was formidable, the impact inestimable. Your contribution laid the foundation for the professionalism and rigour so necessary in approaching these exacting reviews.
[Chairman of Governors, HMC Boarding School]
Inpection Preparation
Facing an inspection, we wanted an expert to guide us through the workings of how an inspection team operate to best prepare us. Simon delivered a bespoke package through researching our school and knowing how the minds of teachers work. Brilliant.
[Senior Team Leader, HMC Boarding School]
EXCEL Training
We needed a very deep dive into the workings of Excel to best present data for tracking and predictions. Simon clearly understood our needs and professionally delivered exactly what we needed. We are very grateful to him for understanding what teachers need to be able to do this. Can’t recommend him enough.
[Director of T&L, HMC Boarding and Day School]