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Hayley’s personal mission is to ‘change a million children’s lives, to start..’

Following 13 years of founding and running the internationally acclaimed and award-winning group of Early Years Centres, Little Barn Owls, in 2020, Hayley founded the pioneering Atelier 21 Future School, an independent school for students 4-16 years that co-operates as a mainstream school and research centre providing professional development worldwide. The aim being to OPTIMISE the experience of school to make it more Relevant, Meaningful and Joyful for pupils and prove that academic progress sores in a pedagogic culture of ‘self-adjustment and flex-pertise’.

Atelier 21 was born out of Hayley’s deep connection with the Reggio Emilia Approach to learning, based on the image of children as inherently competent and capable of building and expressing knowledge and skills for themselves.

Her other passions are leadership, psychology, horses and early years. Her Early Years group of centres in West Sussex, UK, have been awarded Nursery World UK Nursery of the Year in 2015/16, Nursery Group of the Year in 2021 (they are up for the same award as we speak for 2023 – watch this space..), multiple Outstanding ratings from Ofsted and many other awards spanning innovation, leadership culture and learning environments.

Hayley has presented in Malaysia, China and Canada and all over the UK. She regularly podcasts to share ideas that are making a difference to children’s lives at Atelier 21 Future School.