The Jolly Discoveries Team Celeste Musgrave and Santina DiMauro have been primary school teachers in NSW, Australia with over twenty years of classroom experience. They have specialised in the areas of early literacy and numeracy development of young children beginning school life.
Both completed a Masters degree with a thesis investigating children’s ability to learn higher order mathematical concepts. Celeste and Santina have inserviced teachers in mathematical discovery in the early years in various parts of Asia.The area of literacy development, in particular the reading and writing process using a synthetic phonics approach began their journey in teacher development. Celeste and Tina used a synthetic phonics program called Jolly Phonics by Sue Lloyd and Sara Wernham in their classrooms for 10 years and witnessed children succeeding in reading and writing. They were so passionate about the continual success stories of their classroom children that they both now provide teacher professional development courses in the Jolly Phonics and Jolly Grammar programs and synthetic phonics in general. They have trained teachers in synthetic phonics and grammar throughout Australia, Asia (Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, Taiwan, Sth Korea, Singapore, Sri Lanka, India) and Lebanon. They are also currently providing tutorial teaching sessions for children who need extra assistance in English and Mathematics and also direct their teaching instruction to those children who are just beginning their first year of formal schooling. Celeste Musgrave is also an official CPR and Senior First Aid trainer and can offer school based training for teachers and students. |
