Phillipa Hyett
Managing Director / Teacher & Education Consultant (QTS, NPQLTD, NPQH)
Former Deputy Head Teacher at an Ofsted-rated Outstanding primary school. Phillipa leads school improvement strategy and ensures the highest educational standards across all Hyett Education programmes. She holds QTS, NPQLTD, and NPQH national professional qualifications.
Areas of Expertise
- School leadership
- Education strategy
- EYFS and primary curriculum
- STEM education
Articles by Phillipa Hyett
STEM Careers in the UK: From Classroom Skills to Real Jobs
Explore UK STEM careers through classroom tasks, transferable skills, job families and routes including apprenticeships, college and university study.
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Funding Enrichment Fairly: Free, Subsidised and Paid Activities
Enrichment funding explained: how to build a fair offer of free, subsidised and paid activities, plus the Every Child Can and Enrichment Expansion Programme.
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Planning a Trust-Wide Enrichment Offer Across Your MAT
How multi-academy trusts plan a trust-wide enrichment offer across academies, align the DfE benchmarks, use school profiles and commission STEM centrally.
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Ofsted, Enrichment and Personal Development from September 2026
How the state-funded school inspection toolkit from September 2026 treats purposeful, varied enrichment, and what the non-statutory DfE framework means in practice.
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How STEM Clubs and Workshops Meet Enrichment Benchmark 2
STEM is the only domain the DfE names in Enrichment Benchmark 2. See how robotics, coding, drones and AI workshops map to the enrichment framework offer.
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Cognitive Load Theory in the Classroom: How Teachers Maximise Learning
Cognitive load theory explains why working memory is limited and how teachers can reduce overload. Three evidence-based strategies to help pupils learn more.
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STEM Workshops for SEND Pupils: Our Inclusive Approach
How Hyett Education delivers STEM workshops for SEND pupils, using the EEF five-a-day approach, adaptive teaching and experienced specialist teachers.
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Full Steam Ahead: Engineering, Literacy, and Lasting Learning for Young Learners
Discover how the Early Engineers Express workshop combines hands-on LEGO Duplo engineering, literacy, and cross-curricular learning for EYFS and KS1 children.
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STEM Enrichment and Ofsted: What Counts as Evidence
How schools can evaluate and document STEM enrichment under Ofsted’s renewed framework without treating one workshop as proof of impact or a guaranteed inspection outcome.
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STEM Workshops for Gifted and Talented Students
How STEM workshops provide challenge, extension, and aspiration for gifted and talented students, with specific workshop recommendations and competition pathways.
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How STEM Workshops Support Personal Development and Wellbeing
How STEM workshops can contribute to a school’s personal development and wellbeing programme under Ofsted’s renewed framework, without guaranteeing inspection evidence or outcomes.
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Inclusive STEM Enrichment: Reaching Every Student
School trips can unintentionally exclude vulnerable pupils. In-school STEM workshops remove barriers for SEND, Pupil Premium, EAL, and anxious learners.
Read articleWhat Is School Enrichment and Why Does It Matter?
A practical guide to school enrichment: what it is, how it differs from the core curriculum, and why it matters for Ofsted, personal development, and student outcomes.
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Encouraging Girls in STEM: Why It Matters and How Schools Can Help
The gender gap in STEM is real but not inevitable. Practical strategies for schools to encourage more girls into science, technology, and engineering.
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