Katie Lye is an experienced leader with 15 years of school leadership at a senior level. She has been working as a trust leader in a primary multi academy trust for the past 5 years with key responsibilities for EYFS and early career teachers. She is the SCITT hub leader for the Kite Teacher Training hub in partnership with Inspiring Future Teachers. Katie is passionate about ensuring that trainee teachers get the best possible start in their career by providing high quality training and positive school experiences. As an experienced mentor and assessor of early career teachers and a facilitator and assessor in ITT, Katie fully understands both the curriculum and wellbeing needs of trainees as they begin their journey into a new and fulfilling career.

With over 25 years’ experience of teaching in infant and early years classrooms, Katie has a breadth of depth and knowledge about early education.