Education consultancy. Wales.

Helping Welsh schools grow through honest, practical partnership.

Curriculum for Wales support, bespoke INSET, and consultancy that meets your school where it is. Led by Elle Peate.

See how I work
A young laurel sapling in a terracotta pot on a wooden Welsh schoolroom windowsill, warm afternoon light through tall sash windows
Portrait of Elle Peate, founder of Cultivate Education Consultancy

About Elle

A teacher first. A consultant because schools asked.

Elle Peate spent fifteen years in Welsh classrooms before stepping into consultancy. She taught across primary and secondary, led whole-school curriculum work, and held senior leadership posts in schools that ranged from rural single-form entry to large urban settings.

Cultivate started because colleagues kept asking. Headteachers wanted a fresh pair of eyes, cluster leads wanted help shaping shared INSET, and the request that came up again and again was the same: someone who knows Welsh schools, who has done the work, and who will be straight with us.

The focus today is Curriculum for Wales, bespoke INSET, and the planning conversations that sit between formal training cycles. Work happens in English and Welsh, in person and remotely, with schools across the country.

  • QTS
  • 15+ years in Welsh primary and secondary
  • CfW design experience
  • Cluster lead
The exterior of a small traditional Welsh primary school in late afternoon light, with autumn leaves falling across an empty playground

A note on place

Schools across Wales, in person and remotely

From the small primaries where you can hear the slate roof creak, to the large urban secondaries with corridors that need their own postcode.

Each school is its own place. The work has to land in it on a real Tuesday morning, with the people who carry it on after I’ve gone.

What I do

Four ways I work with schools

Each engagement starts with a conversation. From there, the shape of the work is built around what your school actually needs.

An empty Welsh primary classroom with handwritten worksheets stacked on a wooden table in afternoon light
Two pairs of hands working together over a hand-drawn curriculum map with sage and terracotta sticky notes
  • 01 / 04

    Bespoke INSET and training

    Whole-staff training days designed for your school. Pedagogy, curriculum, assessment, and the practical questions that come up between formal training cycles.

  • 02 / 04

    Curriculum for Wales consultancy

    Curriculum design, mapping, and review. From foundation principles through to the detail of progression, skills, and the four purposes in your context.

  • 03 / 04

    Cluster and partnership work

    Multi-school programmes for clusters, SIGs, and Local Authority groups. Shared INSET, joint planning, transition support across phases.

  • 04 / 04

    Leadership and strategic support

    One-to-one work with headteachers and senior leaders. Self-evaluation, school improvement planning, and the conversations that don’t fit anywhere else.

How we work together

How a typical engagement runs

Every school is different, but the shape of the work tends to follow the same four steps.

  1. 01

    Conversation

    An informal call to understand where you are, what you’re trying to do, and whether I’m the right fit for it.

  2. 02

    Diagnostic

    A short piece of work — site visit, document review, conversations with staff — to ground the plan in your context.

  3. 03

    Delivery

    Bespoke INSET, planning days, or one-to-one work, designed and run for your team.

  4. 04

    Follow-up

    Check-ins after the work lands, with practical adjustments based on how it’s playing out.

Not sure which fits?

Tell me a little about your school. I’ll suggest where to start.

How I work

An approach built in Welsh classrooms

I’ve sat in the staffroom on a wet Tuesday in November. The ideas have to work there, or they don’t work at all.
Elle Peate
Two ceramic cups of tea on a worn oak table beside two open notebooks, with a sage napkin and sprig of laurel — a partnership moment
  • 01 /

    Listen first

    Every school is different. Before anything else, I want to understand where you are, what’s working, and where the friction is.

  • 02 /

    Build with you, not at you

    The best change comes from inside the staffroom. My job is to bring tools, evidence, and a fresh pair of eyes, not to hand down answers.

  • 03 /

    Stay practical

    Theory matters. So does what happens at 8:30am on a Monday. Everything I do has to land in real classrooms with real teachers and real time pressure.

Partners

I work with schools and the people around them

  • Primary schools

    From single-form entry to large urban primaries.

  • Secondary schools

    Whole-school INSET and curriculum work.

  • School clusters and SIGs

    Shared INSET and cross-school projects.

  • Local Authorities

    Programme delivery and strategic support.

  • Regional Consortia

    Designed and delivered work at scale.

Words from schools

Genuinely the best INSET we’ve had in years. Practical, evidence-led, and Elle clearly knows Welsh schools inside out.
Headteacher, Cadoxton Primary School

More references available on request.

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