Education Specialist and author of educational books:
- Olivia & the Proverbs
- Raising Confident Children
- Brain Development and Schools
- Keeping Minds Happy and Healthy
- Transforming Reading Skills in the Secondary School
- Study Skills Transforming Reading Skills in the Secondary School. (Routledge)
Practical strategies to support the older reader. Keeping Minds Happy and Healthy. (Routledge)
This book discusses the issues surrounding children’s mental health, and provides strategies to promote children and young people’s mental well-being. Brain Development and Schools. (Routledge)
A publication that explores the development of executive functioning. Executive functioning being the control system of the brain that is responsible for the individual’s levels of attention, motivation, self-control, memory, flexibility, effort and emotional regulation. Raising Confident Children (2020)
A book that discusses how families and schools can work together to improve children’s levels of self-confidence and emotional health. Olivia and the Proverbs (2021)
A book of short stories for children. Each story is based on a well known proverb with a clear message/lesson to be learned in each tale. Join happy-go-lucky, mishchief-maker, Olivia Monkey who lives with her family and pet dog, Biscuit, in a house near the middle of town. The big house next door is a retirement home for elderly monkeys. Can you just imagine how much fun and monkey business goes on in there? Olivia has so many friends at the retirement home she doesn’t have enough fingers to count them all. But two are her VERY best friends - Boris Monkey and Blossom Monkey. Join Olivia and her very best monkey friends as they get up to all kinds of adventures and shenanigans. See what they’re doing right now! It will make you laugh out loud from start to finish!
