About Sheena

Twenty years
of watching
the same gaps.

Sheena Muller is an experienced Head of PSHE with over twenty years in education, including roles as Head of Year, Key Stage Director, and Head of PSHE and RSE. She founded Ahead of the Algorithm in 2026 to help secondary schools build PSHE that reaches young people, not just programmes that pass inspection.

Experienced Head of PSHE Ofsted · ISI · CSI 20+ years in education

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Why this exists

Built from frustration.

After twenty years in schools, Sheena saw the same pattern repeat: strong intentions, weak infrastructure, and inspection pressure that rewarded paper compliance over real impact.

I came to PSHE the way a lot of teachers do: a timetable slot that appeared one September, a folder someone else had built, and the quiet assumption that the important stuff would take care of itself. Twenty years in education, through Head of Year and Key Stage Director, gave me a long view of how schools work and where that assumption breaks down. Taking on the Head of PSHE and RSE role five years ago changed something. The subject got under my skin in a way I hadn't expected. I had been the teacher making a borrowed slot work, the Head of Department writing policies that didn't reflect what was actually happening in classrooms, and the person in the room when inspectors asked questions the school wasn't ready for.

What I kept seeing wasn't bad intent. It was structural under-investment: in time, in training, in honest review. Schools would do a tick-box exercise before inspection, find the gaps, and patch them. Then the same gaps would appear again three years later.

I started Ahead of the Algorithm because I wanted to offer something different: a proper look at what's actually happening, by someone who has done the job and knows what good looks like. Not a consultant who has read the frameworks. Someone who has lived inside them.

Background

The experience behind the work.

Every audit and review is conducted by Sheena directly. There are no associates. That's a deliberate choice.

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Over twenty years in education, including roles as Head of Year, Key Stage Director, and Head of PSHE and RSE, leading curriculum design, staff development, and whole-school review.
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Worked across maintained and independent schools, with direct experience of the Ofsted, ISI, and CSI (Catholic Schools Inspectorate) inspection frameworks, including schools inspected in challenging circumstances.
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Deep working knowledge of the DfE RSHE Statutory Guidance (July 2025), the PSHE Association Programme of Study, and the Ofsted, ISI, and CSI frameworks in force from September 2025.
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Led staff training and CPD on PSHE delivery, including for departments with no prior subject specialism: not just policy-writing, but building teacher confidence in the classroom.
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Designed and delivered parent review and training sessions on PSHE and RSHE, building stakeholder confidence and meeting the engagement expectations of all three inspection frameworks.
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Experience with student voice and wellbeing data as evidence for review: collecting it, interpreting it, and making it useful rather than just reportable.

How we work

A few things that matter to us.

These aren't values statements. They're the choices that shape how every piece of work actually gets done.

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Sheena does the work. Not an associate.

Every audit, every review, every written report is written by Sheena. We work with a small number of schools at a time specifically so that doesn't change. You book Sheena, you get Sheena.

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Honest findings. Not comfortable ones.

The audit is not a validation exercise. If something is missing, we say so. If something is wrong, we say so. The value is in the honesty of the read, not in leaving you feeling better than you should.

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Actionable, not academic.

The written summary doesn't quote frameworks at you. It tells you what to fix, in what order, and why. If you can't act on it in the next term, we haven't done our job.

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Compliance is the floor. Not the ceiling.

We care about inspection readiness because inspection readiness matters. But the goal is PSHE that reaches young people, and inspection-ready provision, done properly, gets you both.

Who this is for

The schools we work with.

We work primarily with secondary schools across England, maintained and independent. What they have in common is usually the same thing.

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Schools where PSHE is led by someone capable but stretched: a Head of Year, a form tutor, a coordinator doing it on top of a full timetable, who needs a proper external read.

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Schools that have good policies on paper but aren't confident the curriculum is being delivered consistently in classrooms.

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Schools preparing for Ofsted or ISI inspection who want an honest external view before the inspectors arrive, not a retrospective debrief.

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Schools that know the September 2026 RSHE deadline is coming and want to understand where they actually stand, not just whether they can tick the boxes.

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Senior leaders (HTs, DHTs, governors) who want to understand what good PSHE looks like and whether their school has it, without having to become PSHE experts themselves.

There's still time

There's still time to do something useful before September.

A 60-minute audit, completed before the end of term, gives you a written summary of where your provision stands and a clear list of the three things to fix first. Most schools find that enough to act on.