OLP Our current partners are:
Brasenose College, University of Oxford
Hodder Education
International Gateway for Gifted Youth at The University of Warwick
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After teaching in Sheffield, Harlow, South Africa and Magdalen College Oxford she took over the headship of the country’s top primary school, leading it and two other primary schools for 10 years. During that time, her school became known as ‘The Best School in England.’ Whilst serving as a headteacher, she also served as a member and leader on a number of panels for the Department of Education and the Qualifications & Curriculum Authority. As an OFSTED and an HMC school inspector, she specialised in the inspection of maths, science and ICT in primary schools. Representing the local authority, she has been a Threshold Assessment adviser, a workforce re-modelling consultant and a Newly Qualified Teacher consultant. Coral is the author of ‘How to Protect Your Child From Bullies’. As an accredited provider for the Young, Gifted and Talented (YG&T) initiative, she designed, coordinated and implemented online, blended and face to face courses for gifted children, delivering them at the University of Oxford, the University of Warwick and outreach schools. Coral is a mathematician, an Associate Fellow of The University of Warwick and the lead professional on a number of e-learning and face to face projects for gifted children, based at the University of Oxford and the University of Warwick, including IGGY Juniors, the junior section of the International Gateway for Gifted Youth and the Da Vinci Group, a global intellectual community for young people. You can contact Coral at coral.milburn-curtis@lmh.ox.ac.uk
She studied English literature at the University of Warwick as an undergraduate and postgraduate and was awarded her PhD in 2004. Her research interests include modernist narratives; literary fiction and theory; ethics; and the relationship between science and literature. She is currently writing a monograph on forensic science and twentieth-century fiction. She has written articles on a diverse range of novelists (such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, and Patricia Cornwell) and thinkers (such as Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jacques Derrida, and Giorgio Agamben) and has presented papers at conferences across the country. Most recently, she took part in the Battle of Ideas organised by the Institute of Ideas. In addition to pursuing literary research, she has designed and developed virtual learning environments to support and stimulate gifted and talented learners. She established and ran two online communities for the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth (NAGTY)—an Online Reading Group and Creative Writing Forum— which each had over 1000 members. In 2006, NAGTY commissioned her to write three papers on the value of e-learning and this led her to pursue e-pedagogy in greater depth. She currently works as an independent consultant. Amongst her clients are, IGGY, YG&T Learner Academy, Villiers Park, and the Birmingham Book Festival. Sarah lives in the Lake District of the UK.
Andy graduated from the University of Leeds in 2003, with a first class honours degree, and went on to study nanotechnology. On leaving university he did a year of world travel, including India, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and Guatemala. After returning in 2006 he worked for three years at Oxford RF Sensors, as a project manager developing sensors for the automotive and aerospace industries. Andy has a strong interest in world history, economics, natural sciences, painting and sailing. Having helped out on our previous courses and face-to-face master classes, we are delighted to bring his eclectic skills and knowledge to our team. Andy lives in Dartmouth on the south coast of the UK. Senior Mentors
He hopes to study physics at university when his gap year has come to an end as it is one of his great passions. His particular interests in physics include cosmology, relativity and the time-space continuum. He has recently completed an 8,000 word dissertation on cosmology to further engage himself in the subject. He also has a keen interest in mathematics and was a member of the maths committee at Eton College. As a member of the Eton Social Service Committee, he taught French to 15 year olds in Slough and film studies at Arbor Vale School for children with special needs. He also raised over £1000 for ‘Kids Charity’ by setting up a little business at School in his free time. Although he has a deep interest in science, his ultimate ambition is to become a film director. He is a keen participant in theatrical activities, although he prefers to be behind the camera than in front of it! Keen on sports, he was Captain of Karate at Eton College where he taught students once a week for two years. He also plays the piano, trumpet and drums. As an inspirational role model to our young students, he is very welcome as a Senior Mentor! Louis lives in Warwickshire, in the heart of England. Junior Mentors Junior Mentors are students who have made an extraordinary contribution to our learning community in terms of their intellectual and leadership skills. They make our new students feel welcome and are always ready to answer questions about the programme. Our Junior Mentors for this holiday are:
Visiting Academics
She completed a BA and MPhil in Classics at Cambridge before turning to school-teaching, in Essex and Cambridge. She has subsequently started a PhD on Oedipus at Colonus in the eighteenth century at Nottingham, which is close to completion. Her research interests include Greek tragedy (particularly reception and Sophocles), Neo-Latin, and Greek philosophy. She has published a range of articles, and is presently co-editing a volume on heroes for Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Cressida is a visiting academic on our Classics courses. .
Emma enjoys sharing her love of Classics and has taught it in a variety of contexts. From 2007-2008 she was the Classics Fellow at Marlboro College, Vermont, where she taught Latin, Greek and Classical Literature and Philosophy courses to undergraduates. In her spare time, Emma is an editor and contributor with the Oxford-based graduate journal, the Oxonian Review. She also enjoys playing chamber music on the flute and recorder, and learning modern languages. .
Her adult novels include Fires’ Astonishment (1990) and The Ideal Wife (1997), but she is best-known for her children’s books. She writes for children of all ages, from first readers, picture books, and younger children’s books, to children’s novels, which include A Little Lower than the Angels (1987), Gold Dust (1993) and Not the End of the World (2004), each of which have won the Whitbread Children’s Book Award, making her the only writer to have won this award three times. Geraldine McCaughrean has also written several collections of stories, including bible stories and fairy tales. She specialises in the retelling of classic tales such as The Canterbury Tales (1984), The Odyssey (1993), Moby Dick(1996) and El Cid (1989) and of myths and legends from around the world. These books include The Orchard Book of Greek Myths (1992) and The Orchard Book of Roman Myths (1999). Geraldine McCaughrean lives in Berkshire. Her book, Not the End of the World, is currently being adapted for the stage. White Darkness(2005), was shortlisted for the 2005 Whitbread Children's Book Award. In 2005, she was chosen to write the official sequel to J. M. Barrie'sPeter Pan. Peter Pan in Scarlet was published in 2006. Colleagues from the University of Oxford, who have helped us to develop and deliver our gifted programme over the past year: Mark Curtis; Exeter College, Hannah Dingwall; St Hugh's College, Kassi Jackson; Lady Margaret Hall , Hannah Jenner; St Anne’s College, Dominic Jones; Somerville College, Georgina Longley; Corpus Christi, Will Moir; Exeter College , Dr Llewellyn Morgan; Brasenose College , Chris Noon; Christ Church College , Lizzie Sandis; Faculty of Classics , Anthony Smith, Corpus Christi, Lorna Stevenson; Faculty of Science , Katherine Watson; Merton College, Emma Wyndham-Blake ; Faculty of Classics Click HERE to return to the Home Page. |
Coral Milburn-Curtis, from Oxford, England, is the Director of Education for OLP. She is currently researching ELearning and the Gifted Child at The University of Oxford and is an Associate Fellow of the University of Warwick. 
Jen Oakton BA(QTS) Hons. Educational Studies with English, MA(Open) in Primary Education lives in Northamptonshire, England.
Dr Sarah Dauncey is an English literature academic and consultant in e-learning and is committed to harnessing technology to extend and deepen the educational experience of children and young people. 
Andy Jessop, BEng Electronic and Electrical Engineering, MSc Nanoscale Science and Technology (University of Leeds).
Louis Markham has just finished his VIth form at Eton College. We are pleased to say that he will be spending some of his gap year here with us at OLP. During his time at Eton he achieved A* grades in all his subjects at GCSE as well as five A grades at AS level in physics, biology, further mathematics, Latin and French. He finished mathematics A level early and secured an A* grade in it; he is currently waiting to find out his grades for the rest of his A level subjects. Having been predicted A* grades for the rest of them, we do wish him good luck!
Cressida Ryan is the Classics Outreach Officer at the University of Oxford. 
Emma Park is a doctoral student in Classical Literature and Philosophy at University College, Oxford. Her main research interests are in the interaction between philosophy and literature in the works of Plato and the Roman materialist poet, Lucretius. She also holds a Classics BA (first class) and MSt (distinction) from Oxford.
Geraldine McCaughrean was born in 1951 and brought up in North London. She studied at Christ Church College of Education, Canterbury and worked in a London publishing house for 10 years before becoming a full-time writer in 1988. She has written over 120 books, 50 short plays for schools, and a radio play.
