Experience

Pimlico Academy

• United Kingdom
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Pastoral Support Manager

  • Sep 2017 - Present

  Working closely with students, parents, families, carers, social services and other professional bodies such as Place2Be and CAHMS to provide support to students inside and outside of school. Supporting the Head of Year on all aspects of school life including student behaviour and wellbeing, attendance and academic progress.Arranging and leading meetings with parents, including induction interviews as well as exclusion meetings, and conducting home visits to ensure student welfare is supported in all areas of education and home life. Speaking in assembly each week, recommending a book of the week, and working closely with neighbouring public library where I have created my own book display for Key Stage 3.Coached the Year 7 football team. Show less

• Intervention Tutor

  • Nov 2016 - Sep 2017

  Supported a group of SEN students with learning and educational difficulties both in class and through after school intervention sessions.Selected by SENCo to write the school inclusion policy, producing an open letter to students to be displayed in the inclusion department.Established a journalism club for BBC school report day for students to create stories and content for the school website.



Self-Employed

• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Freelance Journalist

  • Jun 2016 - Nov 2016

  Published in The Times, The Observer, The Globe Post, Open Democracy and The New Arab. Reporting and providing commentary on social and current affairs. Provided exclusives for The Times with additional analysis articles for each and a leading article written to accompany one of them. Involved submitting FoI requests, analysing data and reporting on radicalisation such as Prevent strategy and large social media companies. Provided analysis to Open Democracy on the changing attitudes to the UK Prevent strategy, included in a government reading package for a parliamentary debate on Prevent. Provided in-depth insight for The New Arab into the conditions of Ahmadiyya Muslims in the Middle East, attending the annual Ahmadiyya Muslim festival to research and interview guests. Provided analysis on different approaches to tackling radicalisation in the UK and the US. Provided commentary to The Globe Post on US-Russia relations with regards to the Syria conflict. Show less



Times Higher Education

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Writer

  • Feb 2016 - May 2016

  An industry-leading magazine based in London, reporting specifically on news related to higher education. Provided SEO information and engaging 500-word biographies for universities featuring in the world university ranking section, aimed at providing key source information for students and professors. Undertook research combining information and turning facts, statistics and history into interesting and engaging content ranking high in search engines. An industry-leading magazine based in London, reporting specifically on news related to higher education. Provided SEO information and engaging 500-word biographies for universities featuring in the world university ranking section, aimed at providing key source information for students and professors. Undertook research combining information and turning facts, statistics and history into interesting and engaging content ranking high in search engines.



SOUTH LONDON GUARDIAN LIMITED

• Book and Periodical Publishing

• Intern

  • Aug 2015 - Aug 2015

  Gained research and writing experience for the South London Guardian Series on titles including The Surrey Comet, The Richmond and Twickenham Times and Wimbledon Guardian, pitching my own ideas, taking commissions and actively contributing to weekly meetings. Wrote front page news stories, conducted vox pops, interviewed playwrights and directors, wrote feature articles, obituaries and attended protests and crime scenes. Gained research and writing experience for the South London Guardian Series on titles including The Surrey Comet, The Richmond and Twickenham Times and Wimbledon Guardian, pitching my own ideas, taking commissions and actively contributing to weekly meetings. Wrote front page news stories, conducted vox pops, interviewed playwrights and directors, wrote feature articles, obituaries and attended protests and crime scenes.



The Tab

• United States
• Marketing Services

• Reporter

  • Jan 2014 - Jan 2015

  Writing up student news reports, features and comment as well as creating lists and interactive quizzes. Covering breaking news, music festivals and human interest stories. Writing up student news reports, features and comment as well as creating lists and interactive quizzes. Covering breaking news, music festivals and human interest stories.



The Mancunion

• United Kingdom
• Newspaper Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Features Writer

  • Feb 2014 - Mar 2014

  Writing features for the Food and Drink and Music sections of the newspaper. Writing features for the Food and Drink and Music sections of the newspaper.