Clearway Driver Training - Driving School

Paul Kirkpatrick is a fully qualified Approved Driving Instructor - or to give him his official title he's Paul Kirkpatrick DSA ADI (Car)!

Paul previously worked as a driving instructor for BSM, the UK's largest driving school before founding Clearway Driver Training in 2004.

Before becoming a driving instructor, Paul worked in the IT industry for many years as a software developer and website designer.

Paul says that leaving IT and becoming a driving instructor was one of the best decisions he ever made, as he really enjoys driving instruction and actually looks forward to going to work - something he never did when he worked in IT!

Paul believes that people learn to drive more effectively if they are relaxed and enjoy their driving lessons.

Paul's sense of humour is legendary. He is reknowned for his vast mental store of jokes - some good, some bad and some downright corny (you have been warned!)

Paul's ethos for Clearway Driver Training is simple;

Top quality driving tuition and complete dedication to excellent customer service.

In order to achieve this, Paul makes sure that every member of the Clearway Driver Training team fits in with our company ethos of placing the customer first at all times. Clearway Driver Training only use driving instructors who share his aims and ideals.

Paul is fully CRB checked, a member of the Driving Instructors Association and is a Pass Plus registered instructor.

Paul covers Slough, Langley, Datchet, Colnbrook, Windsor, Iver, Maidenhead and the surrounding towns and villages.

Peter Fearon is a fully qualified Approved Driving Instructor. He is also an IAM (Institute of Advanced Motorists) Registered Instructor.

Peter formerly worked as a driving instructor for both BSM and the AA Driving School before joining us at Clearway Driver Training in 2006.

Before becoming a driving instructor, Peter worked in the communications field of the Royal Navy and also spent several years in the banking industry as a telecommunications manager.

Peter has a great sense of humour (like Paul, he has a seemingly unending supply of jokes and witticisms). He's also patient and friendly and can put even the most nervous of learner drivers at their ease.

Peter prides himself on providing friendly, professional and reliable instruction. He believes that everyone is different when it comes to learning to drive and he tailors the way he teaches to provide structured instruction to suit the individual requirements of each customer.

No matter what ability pupils have, Peter will encourage them all the way and do all he can to ensure that pupils actually enjoy learning to drive.

Peter Fearon is fully CRB checked, a member of the Driving Instructors Association and is a Pass Plus registered instructor.

Peter covers Slough, Langley, Datchet, Colnbrook, Windsor, Iver, West Drayton, Egham, Chertsey and the surrounding towns and villages.

Rob White is a fully qualified Approved Driving Instructor.

Rob joined the team at Clearway Driver Training in 2007, having previously worked for Safeway UK driving school.

Rob ran his own landscape gardening business for a number of years before becoming a driving instuctor.

Rob is very popular with all his students due to his relaxed, easy-going manner. He is calm, patient and friendly and has the compulsory Clearway Driver Training good sense of humour :)

Rob knows an awful lot about cars and driving and as a matter of fact, he used to race vintage sports cars as a hobby!

Rob's aim is for his students to enjoy learning to drive and in the process to help them become safe and confident drivers.

Robert White is fully CRB checked, a member of the Driving Instructors Association and is a Pass Plus registered instructor.

Rob covers Bracknell, Wokingham, Sandhurst, Crowthorne, Twyford, Ascot, Maidenhead, Egham and the surrounding towns and villages.

Ted Plenty is a fully qualified Approved Driving Instructor who joined Clearway Driver Training in 2008 having worked in skills and management training for over twenty years.

Ted has wide and varied experience in the field of adult education and prior to becoming a driving instructor, he was a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Ted's wealth of training experience and insight into how adults learn, enables him to work to the strengths of each of his students, structuring his tuition to the needs of each individual learner driver.

Ted is patient and relaxed and like all of our instructors, possesses the pre-requisite good sense of humour!

Ted is a firm believer in the Driving Standards Agency ethos of "Safe driving for life" and he tries to help all his students achieve this aim in an enjoyable and positive fashion.

Ted Plenty is fully CRB checked, a member of the Driving Instructors Association and is a Pass Plus registered instructor.

Ted covers Slough, Langley, Datchet, Colnbrook, Windsor, Iver, West Drayton and the surrounding towns and villages

Along with Paul Kirkpatrick, Louise Bartlett has been with Clearway Driver Training since the company was established in 2004.

As a co-founder, Louise shares Paul's aims and ideals for the company.

Louise has a background in sales, education, management and customer service and has a comprehensive knowledge of the driver training industry. She has also written numerous advice articles for learner drivers and driving instructors.

Louise co-ordinates the day to day running of Clearway Driver Training, dealing with customer enquiries, running the administration side of the business, managing the instructors and acting as point of contact between the instructors and students.

Louise also has a unique sense of humour, but out of respect for our customers, she saves her "wit" for the instructors ears only!

Nathan Plenty is Clearway Driver Training's Administrative Assistant.

Nathan helps out with the administration of the company and deals with all the exciting stuff that goes on behind the scenes at our busy driving school!

Nathan is our I.T wizard having recently left college with qualifications in I.T Networking.

Nathan is an avid football fan and runs his own website devoted to Slough Town Football Club! When he's not talking computers or football, he enjoys photography and reading!

Click the individual links to see customer comments and testimonials for our driving instructors;

Paul Kirkpatrick's testimonials

Peter Fearon's testimonials

Robert White's testimonials

Ted Plenty's testimonials

Further comments can be seen on Facebook;

The cars used by our driving instructors are;

Paul - Fiat Grande Punto 1.4 Tjet

Peter - Suzuki Swift 1.3 DDiS Turbo Diesel

Rob - Peugeot 207 1.4 HDi Turbo Diesel

Ted - Fiat Grande Punto 1.4 Dynamic Sport

You can see some photographs below!

Clearway Driver Training are sponsoring Slough Town Football Club throughout the 2009/2010 season.



For the 2009/10 season, Clearway Driver Training will be Slough Town Football Club's away kit sponsor.

Slough Town Football Club has a long and illustrious history and it is a pleasure to show our support for such a well respected local football club.



* Photo Credit: Nathan Plenty

Since 2004, Clearway Driver Training have been delighted to sponsor "RebelsOnline", an independent website dedicated to Slough Town Football Club (nickname "The Rebels").

Clearway Driver Training took two cars and three instructors to Castleview School, Woodstock Avenue, Slough on a bright sunny afternoon in July 2008 to offer 'driving lessons' to young visitors to the school's Summer Fete.

A driving course was laid out with cones in the school playground and a steady stream of eager young learner drivers were given a taste of driving a proper car around the course under the expert guidance of driving instructors Paul Kirkpatrick, Peter Fearon and Ted Plenty.

With drivers ranging in age from 3 to 16 years old, some of the learners were so small that seeing over the steering wheel was difficult even when raised up with several cushions but that did not stop them from being able to steer around the course with varying levels of help.

The driving lessons activity proved to be the most popular attraction at the fete and so many customers were eager to try their hand at driving that a virtual queueing system had to be implemented.

Clearway Driver Training are delighted to have been able to help raise a considerable sum of money for the Castleview School PTA.

*Photo credits: Nathan Plenty

Clearway Driver Training were more than happy to help out when Castleview School asked us back again give "kiddies driving lessons" at their Fun Day on July 18th 2009.

As we were such a huge attraction last year, we took four cars along to put the mini-learners through their paces under the watchful eye of driving instructors, Paul Kirkpatrick, Peter Fearon, Rob White and Ted Plenty.

As before, the event was great fun and Clearway Driver Training are delighted that our participation raised over £400 for Castleview School!

* Photo & video credits: Nathan Plenty

All photographs of minors have been obtained and are reproduced with the prior permission of the subject's parent/guardian. No images may be reproduced elsewhere in any form.

Should you or your organisation be interested in using Clearway Driver Training at a similar event, please contact the Clearway Driver Training office for details of our availability and fees.

All such events are subject to suitability of the site, health and safety regulations and all relevant insurance.

In April 2007, Clearway Driver Training were asked by the Slough Observer newspaper to help them with a feature about whether a driver who learnt to drive some time ago, would pass their driving test if they had to take it again several years later.

Clearway Driver Training's founder and company manager, Paul Kirkpatrick ADI took to the roads of Slough with the newspaper's sub-editor Andy Stiff, who passed his test twelve years previously, to assess whether the standard of his driving was up to the standard required for the current driving test...


It wasn't!

You can read the full newspaper article on the "Clearway News" page of our main website!

18 months after we did the mock driving test feature for the Slough Observer newspaper, we were approached by another local newspaper to do the same thing again!

Paul Kirkpatrick ADI gave Maidenhead Advertiser reporter Daniel Darlington, a mock driving test. Daniel originally passed his driving test over 10 years ago and was quietly confident that his driving would be up to the standard required for a modern driving test...

...like the Slough Observer's Andy Stiff before him, poor Daniel was crestfallen to discover that over the years, he had picked up numerous bad habits!

You can read the newspaper article and watch the associated video (yes, the whole thing was filmed by a camera crew!) on the "Clearway News" page of our main website!

The main towns and villages we cover include;

Slough, Langley, Burnham, Colnbrook, Windsor, Old Windsor, Dedworth, Eton, Datchet, Maidenhead, Holyport, Ascot, Sunninghill, Sunningdale, Bracknell, Wokingham, Crowthorne, Sandhurst, Twyford, Iver, Iver Heath, West Drayton, Uxbridge, Chertsey, Englefield Green and Egham (and all surrounding areas).

We cover the following postcode areas;

GU47 KT16 RG12 RG41 RG42 RG45 SL0 SL1 SL2 SL3 SL4 SL5 SL6 TW18 TW19 TW20 UB7 UB8 and UB10

For a detailed list of all the areas we cover please see our Areas covered page