Peter Gale

Managing Director

Peter began his career in education as a secondary science teacher and went on to hold several leadership roles, including Head of an Initial Teacher Training Partnership. He later joined Ofsted as one of Her Majesty’s Inspectors (HMI), leading inspections of both primary and secondary schools, as well as teacher training partnerships.

Returning to school leadership in 2013, Peter has held senior roles across four multi-academy trusts. His positions have included Director of School Improvement, Director of Education, and Chief Executive Officer. Alongside these roles, Peter has worked as an education adviser to the Department for Education, Future Academies, Ark, United Learning and served as Head Consultant to Challenge Partners. Peter also co-authored two units for The Key’s CPD toolkit.

With a passion for school improvement, Peter started EvaluateMySchool with the aim of helping schools accurately self-evaluate to drive their own improvement.

Keith Halsey

Technical Director

Keith completed a doctorate in Artificial Intelligence before starting his career in education as a science teacher, going on to hold senior leadership positions in a variety of schools and multi academy trusts. He was responsible for the role out and training of technology solutions in education. He consults on timetabling, curriculum design, financial planning, and data reporting.

He is passionate about producing software that is exceptionally easy to use and administer, whilst also being flexible enough to meet the needs of self-evaluation and improvement in schools. 

David Bartram OBE

Education Director

David has been a SEND policy adviser to the Department for Education, an adviser to the Mayor of London’s education team, and Director of SEND at the London Leadership Strategy. David is an author of the SEND Review Guide, a national best practice framework funded by the DfE. He is editor of ‘Great Expectations, Leading and Effective SEND Strategy in School’ and co-author of ‘Beyond Boundaries, Leading Great SEND Provision Across a Trust’.

David has supported the development of inclusion policy in a number of countries including Ethiopia, Seychelles, Thailand and Malaysia. David is a member of the Educational Policy Institute Advisory Board, Chair of the ImpactEd Steering Group on Inclusive Environments and a trustee of the KPMG Foundation, which seeks to bring about systemic change in business and society and unlock the potential of the most disadvantaged children in the UK.

David was appointed an OBE for Services to Special Education in the 2016 New Year’s Honours List.

Verity King

Head of Operations & Partnerships

A former history teacher and middle leader, Verity has worked in and with schools for over a decade. Verity is passionate about supporting school improvement through collaboration and previously led delivery of Whole Education’s SEND School Improvement Programme.

Most recently, Verity led content development for Education Development Trust’s National Professional Qualifications, quality assured programme delivery and was responsible for key aspects of the NPQs Summative Assessment.

A Teach First Ambassador, Verity holds a PGCE from Sheffield Hallam University, a Master’s Degree in Education from the University of Manchester and is the SEND governor for a community primary and nursery school in her home county of Norfolk.

Harry Thompson

Developer

Harry has been involved in EvaluateMySchool from a very early stage. He has extensive knowledge of innovative front end and back end design and implementation. Harry is always keen to innovate, using the latest technologies and developments to keep EvaluateMySchool at the forefront of the tech stack.