Trevor Hawes is now regarded as one of the UK's leading experts on teaching and the learning brain and has a growing international reputation. His presentations and courses are commonly described as "BRILLIANT" "highly informative" "practical" "fun" and "the best INSET ever!!!!"

Trevor co-authored the best selling book "Effective Teaching and Learning in the Primary Classroom" a bible for many teachers and NQTs.

He works at a variety of levels … from LEA conferences, through to training days with Learning Networks and clusters of schools as well as INSET for individual schools.

Trevor presents and trains on a variety of topics relating to teaching, learning, thinking and creativity in a primary classroom (see below).

Trevor provides INSET training on Teaching for Learning, Developing Children's Learning to Learn and Thinking Skills and Raising Boys’ Achievements. In addition he undertakes keynotes and workshops at conferences on Teaching, Learning and Thinking, runs study skills days for pupils at Key Stage 1 and 2 and undertakes presentations to parents and teaching assistants.

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Here is what a few people have said about Trevor's training days recently:

Terry Mortimer, Headteacher Harpole Primary School And Campion Cluster Co-ordinator
"Trevor presented an absolutely superb day on Teaching for Learning to the Campion cluster of primary schools. I have received such positive feed back from every school that attended. We have already booked Trevor for the follow up day on Developing Children's Learning to Learn and Thinking skills."

Sue Knutton, Headteacher
"Trevor's presentation of a whole day's Inset to the Linconshire Deputies was received with ever growing enthusiasm. Whereas he told us our attention span is limited to 25 minutes, we all sat soaking up whatever he shared with us, and would have continued to listen far longer. His presentation was right up to the minute, addressing the Primary Strategy along with Excellence and Enjoyment, showing examples of how he was involved in making it work for all children in real classrooms. The group of people present did not need inspiring; they are refreshingly excited and inspired already. However they were given ideas to try, information to increase their knowledge and skills and the opportunity to be part of such an exciting presentation. They were further equipped to go back to scho ol and show by example how awareness and use of multiple intelligence, thinking skills and self esteem lead to success for all children. The buzz of interest and excitement was tangible"

Lesley Barringer, Headteacher Osbaldick Primary School York:
"I would like to thank you most sincerely for the superb INSET Day you provided. Everyone who attended the presentation has asked if they too could thank you for giving such an inspiring experience. You reached out to all. The day was tailor- made and perfect for both schools."

Maria Foxton, Headteacher, Hornsea Community Primary School, Hornsea Primary Strategy Learning Network
"Please pass on our thanks to Trevor for his hard work on our training day. He packed much information and many ideas into a short space of time. The feedback from staff has been very positive."

Jacqueline Teeney, Headteacher, Bishop Pursglove Church of England (A) Primary School
"Many thanks to Trevor; we had a brilliant day full of humour, pathos and fascinating facts, figures, information and knowledge. We liked the way he drew on personal experience and offered practical advice, solutions and lots of ideas. I've seen things being put into practice TODAY as a direct result of his talk in every classroom and an additional "buzz" in the air. He didn't just make a difference for 30 children as good teachers always hope they do, but for about a thousand children in one day (approx number of nursery and primary pupils in the schools attending, not counting Lady Manners!)! There'll be plants, fish, water features, cushions and tigers everywhere (in my school we have teddies and monkies already)-oh dear…..and…..someone wrote on their feedback "Trevor for Prime minister!" Many many thanks for a great start to our year and don't hesitate to pass my phone number and or comments to others.

Anne F. Cameron, Primary Strategy Consultant, Kent School Advisory Service
On behalf of the Primary Strategy team in Kent and all the teachers who attended the conference on May 23rd, I would like to thank you for your highly informative and exciting key note speech. I don't know if you managed to squeeze in any workshops before you left, but many of them, which were presented by the Leading teachers, seemed to mirror the very messages that you gave about pupils and their learning. We couldn't have planned this if we tried!

The evaluations from the conference were very good or excellent with many complimentary comments about your opening address such as:
"inspirational"
"will definitely make me rethink my classroom practice" and
"set the tone for the whole day"

We all look forward to the publication of the new book.
Thank you once again for helping to get our conference off to such an enthusiastic start.

Roy Porritt, Education Adviser, Yorkshire and the Humber
"I want to thank you very much for your after dinner speech at our AST Conference in Harrogate . It was precisely what I asked of you and has been enormously well received:

"Mould breaking information of enormous importance" and

"Entertaining and inspirational" and

"Reminded me of why I teach"

Thanks once again for your help with the event. It helped set the tone for the rest of the event the day after.

Hugh Hastie, Chairman, Connexions Derbyshire Ltd
"Having heard Trevor at previous national Connexions events, I was determined to ensure that he was the keynote speaker at our Connexions Derbyshire Company Awayday - so much so that we changed the date to ensure he could be there!

As expected the response of the staff was very positive to his humorous but serious message, given them an understanding of individual learning styles and his reinforcement of the important work they do in seeking to fulfil the potential of our young people"

Rosemary L. Sutton, Curriculum Co-Ordinator, Connexions, Bedfordshire and Luton submitted the following comments from her Conference evaluations :
"Really enjoyed the day the highlight was Trevor Hawes, would like to see him again"

"I will look up some of Trevor's information and try and use and apply it to my work with students"

"Trevor Hawes the motivational speaker was excellent I want to investigate using him for a whole school event" several schools said this.
"This is the best conference I have ever been to and I have been to many and Trevor's ideas were inspirational"

"I intend to try and apply Trevor's ideas if I can superb"

"I intend to rethink a lot of the work I do with my students after listening to Trevor"

"Trevor's session was excellent and delivered superbly"

"Trevor Hawes was inspiring"

"Totally brilliant I had become a conference cynic but today has been pure quality I will use Trevor's ideas to rethink my approach to work with disaffected young people"

One or two people commented that they wished he would slow down his speaking style as they feel they would have heard all of it and not missed some of it because they couldn't keep up.

Multi Agency Conference Comments following a national Conference "A most enjoyable and relevant day - it's great to hear speakers with so much wisdom, experience and realism but still with plenty of drive left in them! Thankyou."

"Thankyou for such a high quality and entertaining day"

"Enjoyable day - excellent resources to take away"

"Excellent course. Wonderful speakers - a mix of humour and thought provoking issues - Brilliant!"

"Uplifting, inspirational and informative. Good to have a day like this. Thankyou."

"Excellent speakers - particularly Humphrey and Trevor - breath of fresh air!"

"Fantastically inspiring day, ended brilliantly with Trevor. So much info to take back to my colleagues."

Visiting Teacher Service, Birmingham
"I really enjoyed the day and found it very stimulating. I was very impressed by the speaker, and by the style and impact of the presentation"

"Excellent content, very thought provoking. All school s should have this training"

"A very useful dynamic day - much cause for thought"

"Loved the content, have just stopped talking about it 5 days later! Great to have something for my tired brain to get its teeth into!"

"Brilliant speaker, excellent content, superb day. I wish I had known about the learning mind/styles years ago."

"Excellent! Very relevant and enjoyable. I am reading the book"

"Several people said it was the best service development day they had been to. Interesting, relevant and stimulating content"