Consultancy Services

Barry is available for a range of services. These include:

• keynote presentations at conferences or training days
• workshop sessions with staff and/or students in all key stages
• in-service training sessions for schools and LAs
• governor training/awareness
• presentations to parents

The content of presentations and workshops usually consists of one or a combination of the following themes:

• inclusive approaches to gifted and talented education
• fostering intrinsic motivation to learn and take intellectual risks
• thinking, learning and reflecting
• creativity, enrichment and extension
• Philosophy for Children/Communities (P4C)
• Dilemma-Based Learning (DBL)

Examples of previous courses, presentations and workshop sessions:

• Keynote: “Four Funerals and a Wedding: psychology’s legacy to gifted and talented education” (Doncaster, 2005)
• “Constructively Speaking: Creativity, enquiry and collaboration in the classroom” (Chalfonts Community College, 2006)
• “An Audience with Barry Hymer” (NACE afternoon audience series, London 2006 and Birmingham 2007)
• One day conference: “Gifts, Talents & Inclusion: the power of personalised enquiry” (Torbay, 2006)
• Keynote: “Gifts and talents in the 21st century” (NAGTY Primary Launch, Warwick and Manchester, 2004)
• Whole staff training: “Building Gifts and Talents” (Altrincham Girls’ Grammar School, 2007)
• Philosophy for/with Children workshop sessions and staff twilights (Bradford, 2004-2007)
• Workshop: “Wise thinking, wise behaviour: towards the development of wise learning communities” (10th International Conference on Thinking, Harrogate, 2002)
• Whole-staff one-day INSET: “Constructing Learning: Motivated learning in the 21st century classroom” (Gosforth High School, 2006)
• Whole-staff SAPERE-accredited Level 1 Training in Philosophy for Children (Grafton Primary School, London, 2006)
• One-day whole-staff introduction to P4C (Ladywood School, Barnsley, 2007)
• Whole-staff one-day training in approaches to gifted and talented education (Sturminster Newton School, Dorset, 2004)

Rates: These vary, dependent on the nature and duration of the input required. Please contact Barry directly (see Contact section on this site) to discuss your requirements.