About the authors

Kathrine Hume

Kathrine Hume has been involved in primary school education in the UK for 40 years, as both a teacher and headteacher. Her experience has been in mainstream and special education, within rural and inner-city schools. As a headteacher, much of her work involved encouraging and developing trainee and recently qualified teachers.

Kathrine joined Cambridge University Press as an author following her retirement as a headteacher.

Sarah Lindsay

Sarah Lindsay started her educational career as a primary school teacher in the UK. She then moved into authoring educational material, fulltime, for primary-school aged children; this she has done for the last 20 years, writing for the home and international markets. For twelve years she has been a school governor. Among the many projects she has been involved with she is a lead author in the Cambridge Grammar and Writing Skills series.