Goolwa, South Australia

Annette Blackett is an enthusiastic educator, based in Goolwa, South Australia, with over two decades of experience teaching and training across Australia, England, Mozambique, and Papua New Guinea. She holds a Bachelor of Education (Primary), qualifications in Early Childhood Education, TESOL/ESL, and Indigenous Affairs, and is pursuing a Master of Education (Leadership). Since 2017, Annette has served as an Official Jolly Phonics Trainer, conducting international workshops in Papua New Guinea that emphasise Early Childhood pedagogy and English language acquisition through the Jolly Learning program. Her work has positively impacted diverse cultural groups, fostering transformative learning for both children and adults. Driven by the question, “W.H.Y. do we teach?” Annette encourages educators to reflect on their purpose, focusing on the 'What-How-You' of education to inspire meaningful global change. Passionate about empowering others, she supports English language development across the South Pacific Islands and Australia, guided by her faith and Philippians 4:13: “I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.”

Sydney, New South Wales

Celeste Musgrave is an experienced teacher with over 20 years of classroom practice and has been challenged with children of non – English backgrounds and special needs. She has trained teachers in synthetic phonics throughout Australia, Asia, the Middle East and the UK. She is also currently teaching children with learning difficulties in literacy and numeracy. Celeste runs a teacher training orgainsation called Jolly Discoveries, offering courses in literacy and other curriculum areas throughout Australia.

Adelaide, South Australia

Kylie is an experienced educator, having worked in diverse educational settings in Singapore, England, and Adelaide for over 20 years. At a classroom and school level she has successfully implemented various synthetic phonics programs with students of different ages, abilities, and prior experiences. Kylie enthusiastically shares her experience and knowledge in evidence-based approaches to literacy instruction to support schools, educators, and caregivers. Kylie is committed to providing participants with a deep understanding of the Jolly Phonics and Grammar programs. She provides practical teaching strategies to support educators to ensure the program is delivered with fidelity, leading to improved literacy outcomes for all students. Kylie is able to present training both online or face to face.

Sunshine Coast and Brisbane

Prue graduated from Central Queensland University, Australia, with Distinction and is currently studying a Masters in Educational Leadership, specialising in Leading and Learning. Prue has taught from pre-prep to year 7 within Australia, England and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Prue has been teaching with the Jolly Phonics programme since 2013 and across many year levels, with the majority of students being ESL/EFL learners. She has found the Jolly Phonics programme to offer daily opportunities for creativity in developing phonics understanding. Jolly Phonics allows room to incorporate fun activities whilst still allowing students to develop fine motor skills. In the early years setting especially, fun equals increased learning!  When comparing Jolly Phonics with other programmes taught in Australia and England, Prue has seen a significant increase in student progress and achievement in their knowledge of sounds, reading, spelling and sentence writing. She sees her students working collaboratively with each other, which is great for peer-tutoring to occur. Students are able to start 'reading' and spelling within a number of weeks and the interactive elements within the programme keep students motivated and enthusiastic about their learning. Motivation and enthusiasm can be the difference between adequate progress and advanced progress.

New South Wales

Santina Di Mauro has been a NSW teacher for over 30 years, teaching in both state and independent schools. Santina has spent the last 10 years working as a literacy consultant to various schools around Australia, as well as working as an intervention teacher using the L3 and Jolly Phonics and Grammar programmes at a school in Sydney. Santina has been a JollyPhonics Professional Trainer for 20 years, and has trained teachers in the UK, Asia, the Middle East and Australia. She is dedicated to providing teachers with training that gives them what they want as well as what they need throughout Australia and Asia.

Victoria Carlton, the director of The International Centre for Excellence (ICE), extensively uses Jolly Phonics to help West Australian children improve and succeed at literacy skills. She frequently travels to the UK to meet the authors and publisher of Jolly Phonics and to check on current research in this area. She developed and conducted her own programmes which are used with great success at her own centre in Australia and now in her licensed centre in Singapore. Victoria has conducted many professional training courses for teachers and parents in Australia and SEA, all of whom are attracted to her pragmatic and clear approach as it provides a clear pathway through the educational 'maze'. She has trained thousands of teachers and educators for more than 10 years jointly with September 21 Enterprise Pte Ltd in Singapore. Her workshops are so popular that she has now committed to travelling to Singapore 4 ties annually to conduct the highly successful Jolly Learning training workshops. Her workshops are attended by participants from all over the Asia Pacific region. Victoria is convinced that Jolly Phonics is the most effective literacy programme available to teach literacy skills and was featured on the TV current affairs programme, Today Tonight, to demonstrate and discuss the approach. Her 2-day Jolly Phonics and Grammar course in Singapore is approved for funding under the Singapore Skills Future Fund.