People

Annarie Boor APTD, PGCT, QTS

Education Director & Lead Practitioner

Annarie Boor has spent more than 30 years in education, working across the arts, mainstream teaching, and specialist SEN practice. A QTS-registered teacher with direct experience across mainstream, specialist, and therapeutic settings, she has worked with children and young people whose needs stretch well beyond what conventional classroom practice can reach — and has built programmes from the ground up in response to what she found there.

Her SEN specialism covers autism (including PDA profile), ADHD, sensory processing differences, demand avoidance, and complex or multiple needs. Her approach is assessment-informed and child-led: it begins from what a child can already do, and builds from there — not from a deficit model, and not from a fixed programme applied regardless of who is in front of her.

In performing arts, she brings drama, dance, and movement into educational contexts as primary routes to engagement, communication, and confidence — not as enrichment. The neuroscience behind that position is well-evidenced and she writes on it directly; the conviction behind it comes from fifteen years of watching children who had been described as unreachable find their way in through the body and the imagination when no other route was available to them.

Annarie has delivered CPD sessions as part of her previous in-school roles and is developing that dimension of her practice through Tapping Frog Education — supporting the wider teaching workforce to work more effectively with children whose needs require something different from what standard training provides. She is available for school partnerships, specialist sessions, in-house training, and individual work with children and families.

Her background as an award-winning filmmaker is not separate from her educational practice. It shapes the way she reads a room, frames a challenge, responds to unexpected turns, and builds the kind of reflective, high-attention creative environments that reach the learners who need them most. The skills that make a good director and the skills that make a good specialist educator are, in her practice, the same skills.

Simon Boor CBCI

Co-Founder & Strategic Director

Simon Boor is co‑founder of Tapping Frog and provides strategic and organisational direction across the group’s activities. Although his professional background is in technology, business continuity, and operational resilience, he has spent more than two decades working alongside educational and performing‑arts environments. From co‑running The Annarie Academy and supporting youth performance groups across Europe, to assisting behind the scenes in school productions in the UK and Cayman, he has long been embedded in the practical realities of arts and youth education.

Within Tapping Frog Education, Simon’s role is structural rather than pedagogical. He ensures that what Annarie builds has the governance, sustainability, and organisational clarity it needs to grow — and he works with her to explore how resilience thinking can be meaningfully embedded within the professional development work she leads. He is not the educational lead here — Annarie is — but the values that underpin serious resilience practice are closely aligned with those that underpin serious educational practice: start from what exists, build from demonstrated strength, and design for the actual population rather than a convenient average.

His broader work through Tapping Frog includes BC advisory services, operational‑resilience thought leadership, and national‑resilience policy advocacy — most recently through written evidence submitted to the House of Lords National Resilience Committee (reference NLR0007, April 2026). That submission argues that resilience education — including critical evaluation of information, practical preparedness, and an understanding of national dependencies — should be embedded across the curriculum. This belief, that education and resilience are fundamentally intertwined and that personal resilience is especially vital within SEN practice, shapes the structural perspective he brings to Tapping Frog Education.