About
About Graham Reeves
Graham Reeves is Director of Graham Reeves Ltd. He has worked in education – as teacher, headteacher, consultant, trainer and inspector – for many years. He has also been a school governor, an author, a journal editor, a residential social worker, a night porter in a hotel and a trades union official. He was a founder member of the International Advisory Board of International Teacher Education for Primary Schools an initial teacher-training programme operated by a consortium of universities in the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway, and has been a member of the lay panel of the Special Educational Needs Tribunal for England.
Graham had been a teacher in four schools in Outer London before becoming headteacher of Southborough Primary School in Bromley, UK – a post he held for thirteen years. After a period as an independent consultant, he joined Fieldwork Education (later part of the WCL Group) where he worked with Martin Skelton and David Playfoot and held a number of positions including Director of Fieldwork Education Services, Director of School Management and Quality Assurance Director. For Fieldwork Education he was responsible for school start-up – assisting with the establishment of schools in places such as Iran, Gabon, Syria, Vietnam, the Netherlands and Qatar. He was also responsible for school management, providing management and other services for schools in Nigeria, Gabon, Malaysia, Brunei, China, Qatar, Russia, Syria, Turkey, Iran, India and South Korea. He was jointly responsible for the introduction of the International Primary Curriculum, now used in over 1,800 schools around the world.
Also with Fieldwork Education/WCL he assisted with recruitment of teachers and headteachers for many schools around the world. He conducted fact-finding and feasibility studies for companies and prospective school owners in Qatar, Russia, Libya, Ukraine, and South Korea. He conducted a fact-finding visit to the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia at the invitation of the Minister of Education. With Katherine Tucker, he participated in a ‘Review of the New Subject Curriculum for Secondary Education (grades 5-11) and Curriculum for Preschool Education in Azerbaijan’ on behalf of UNICEF and the Ministry of Education and led a further consultancy to the Ministry of Education on ‘the Development of a Teacher Performance Evaluation System, Teacher Certification and Career Development Mechanisms’. His quality assurance work included reviews of international schools, more than 20 ‘Ofsted’ inspections of schools in England, leading the accreditation procedures for the International Primary Curriculum, and responsibility for the external validation of the self-review and evaluation of all schools in the Isle of Man.
Graham has been series editor of Primary File, the School-Home File and the SEN Co-ordinator’s File. He has written many articles and reviews for these and other publications including Bulletin of Environmental Education, Bygone Kent, Safety Education, Management in Education, Onderwijs Buiten Nederland, Primary Education Review, NUT Education Review, Education Magazine, Destinations, Buiten Band, schoolmanager.net, International Schools and Educational Leadership. He has contributed to the Primary Curriculum File, the School Improvement Manual and – with Martin Skelton - Cross Curricular Approaches to Teaching and Learning, edited by Chris Rowley and Hilary Cooper. He is the author of Development Planning for Primary Schools (with Martin Skelton and David Playfoot), Reporting to Parents, and The Governors’ Handbook (as editor). His local history books have been A School for Penge, Palace of the People, and Undaunted.
Graham was, with Martin Skelton and Alastair Douglas, a founding director of RSD School Management Ltd, set up specifically to help launch a group of schools in Vietnam.
When not working and writing, Graham enjoys listening to a wide range of music, going to the theatre and visiting museums and galleries, and has a particular interest in local and family history. He is qualified in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).
Graham established his own consultancy – Graham Reeves Ltd – in 2014.
Graham had been a teacher in four schools in Outer London before becoming headteacher of Southborough Primary School in Bromley, UK – a post he held for thirteen years. After a period as an independent consultant, he joined Fieldwork Education (later part of the WCL Group) where he worked with Martin Skelton and David Playfoot and held a number of positions including Director of Fieldwork Education Services, Director of School Management and Quality Assurance Director. For Fieldwork Education he was responsible for school start-up – assisting with the establishment of schools in places such as Iran, Gabon, Syria, Vietnam, the Netherlands and Qatar. He was also responsible for school management, providing management and other services for schools in Nigeria, Gabon, Malaysia, Brunei, China, Qatar, Russia, Syria, Turkey, Iran, India and South Korea. He was jointly responsible for the introduction of the International Primary Curriculum, now used in over 1,800 schools around the world.
Also with Fieldwork Education/WCL he assisted with recruitment of teachers and headteachers for many schools around the world. He conducted fact-finding and feasibility studies for companies and prospective school owners in Qatar, Russia, Libya, Ukraine, and South Korea. He conducted a fact-finding visit to the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia at the invitation of the Minister of Education. With Katherine Tucker, he participated in a ‘Review of the New Subject Curriculum for Secondary Education (grades 5-11) and Curriculum for Preschool Education in Azerbaijan’ on behalf of UNICEF and the Ministry of Education and led a further consultancy to the Ministry of Education on ‘the Development of a Teacher Performance Evaluation System, Teacher Certification and Career Development Mechanisms’. His quality assurance work included reviews of international schools, more than 20 ‘Ofsted’ inspections of schools in England, leading the accreditation procedures for the International Primary Curriculum, and responsibility for the external validation of the self-review and evaluation of all schools in the Isle of Man.
Graham has been series editor of Primary File, the School-Home File and the SEN Co-ordinator’s File. He has written many articles and reviews for these and other publications including Bulletin of Environmental Education, Bygone Kent, Safety Education, Management in Education, Onderwijs Buiten Nederland, Primary Education Review, NUT Education Review, Education Magazine, Destinations, Buiten Band, schoolmanager.net, International Schools and Educational Leadership. He has contributed to the Primary Curriculum File, the School Improvement Manual and – with Martin Skelton - Cross Curricular Approaches to Teaching and Learning, edited by Chris Rowley and Hilary Cooper. He is the author of Development Planning for Primary Schools (with Martin Skelton and David Playfoot), Reporting to Parents, and The Governors’ Handbook (as editor). His local history books have been A School for Penge, Palace of the People, and Undaunted.
Graham was, with Martin Skelton and Alastair Douglas, a founding director of RSD School Management Ltd, set up specifically to help launch a group of schools in Vietnam.
When not working and writing, Graham enjoys listening to a wide range of music, going to the theatre and visiting museums and galleries, and has a particular interest in local and family history. He is qualified in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).
Graham established his own consultancy – Graham Reeves Ltd – in 2014.
