Prity Thakkar

Jolly Trainer

Prity, a Post Graduate in Educational Administration, started her career as a teacher and moved onto becoming the Principal of an IB school. Her centre, Connecting Learners, came into existence in the year 2012 with an aim to help children learn ‘How to Read and Write’ in a fun-filled and stress-free manner. The centre conducts classes for children with Phonic Fun Mania’s Full Phonic Programme and Reader Phonic Programme. Prity has conducted several workshops on Jolly Phonics for individuals, teachers, pre schools and young mothers many of who are now successfully running their private classes and others who have implemented Jolly Phonics in their school. Prity is willing to conduct training across India.

Coral George

Coral George is a worldwide speaker, and a “Synthetic Phonics Ambassador” who works closely with Education Inspectors, Universities in various countries and Local Education Authorities, Coral has travelled the five continents to train teachers. Qualified as a teacher in Britain, she started her career teaching in England followed by some time in Egypt before finally joining the Spanish Ministry of Education/British Council “Bilingual Project” in 1998. While teaching infants with Jolly Phonics, Coral was amazed at the children’s interest, progress and the high standards of literacy achieved by her students. Coral was a pioneer, providing synthetic phonics teacher-training years before the Department for Education in the UK. advised “Synthetic Phonics” as a prescriptive reading methodology.