Experience

The Honeypot Children's Charity

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Children's Services Leader (Social Emotional Aspects of Learning)

  • Apr 2022 - Present

  •Strategic developer for the design, planning and preparation of a now-successful Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning programme. Including personalised activities, aimed at improving the development of children's social awareness, self-awareness, self-management/regulation, responsible decision making and relationship skills. •Led and supported the charity with achieving a quality assurance badge for Learning Outside the Classroom across sites. •Achieved fully booking the new programme, establishing and building new, rich relationships with schools across counties. •Supervise, guide and set high standards for a team, to deliver group activities for children in safe, nurturing environments. •Plan and prepare educational content, assess risks, engage and brief the team on risk assessments to ensure that the health and safety of children and colleagues is maintained throughout. •Liaise with schools (face: face or online), families and the wider team in the preparation, day-to-day management and delivery of SEAL breaks, taking responsibility for optimising experiences and outcomes for children. •Assist the Charity in understanding beneficiary needs, identify support opportunities and strive to continually improve our services. Delivered speeches and key updates during impact reporting meetings and operations meetings, alongside trustees and the CEO. •Utilising a recognised psychological scale and developed new/revised subjective surveys to gather and analyse pre- and -post data from children, parents and schools to measure impact. •Efficient record keeping and management of data using MS Office. Summative data reports and personalised child reports generated and fed back to key stakeholders. •Quarterly and yearly in-depth written reports, with key findings, highlights and next steps. •Managed and delegated a team to market the programme, developing a new PPT, advertising leaflet and approach to become more inclusive in recruiting schools across a wider area. Show less



St. Mary's Church of England Primary School, Southampton

• United Kingdom
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Primary School Teacher

  • Sep 2015 - Apr 2023

  •Plan, teach and effectively differentiate Good to Outstanding well-structured lessons, following the school's planning policy, curriculum and schemes of work. Utilising educational platforms, tools and techniques to promote better working memory (for retainment and recall). 2018 Ofsted inspection – part of a team given the special mention of ‘some exceptional teaching, for example in year 6, leads to some pupils making very strong progress.’•Build meaningful relationships with pupils and colleagues, centred on mutual respect and equal opportunities.•Manage and organise learning support assistants and other team members in the classroom to maximise pupil progress.•Record and track pupils' progress and attainment systematically, to identify strengths and areas of improvement, which inform teaching and learning targets.•Assess, monitor, record and report on the learning needs.•Identify and support pupils with differing levels of ability, and those experiencing behavioural, emotional and social difficulties.•Responsible for safeguarding the health and wellbeing of the pupils.•To engage in and maintain a dialogue with parents/carers and other professionals. Engage in meetings with outside agencies.•Report to parents/carers on the development, progress and attainment of pupils in annual reports.•Lead and participated in school meetings and INSET/CPD sessions, necessary to work towards and fulfil Whole School Improvement Plans. •Subject and curriculum leader for RE and EAL, ensuring that teachers are well equipped with the appropriate plans, resources and current knowledge of syllabuses.•Fluent and competent in MS Office systems, along with an efficient typing speed.•Organising the end of year 6 production, reading and mathematics skill revision after school clubs and summer school. Delivered year group, phase and whole school assemblies.Engaged in self-study and personal CPD to better enhance opportunities for pupils with low and high attainment. Show less

• Trainee Teacher

  • Sep 2014 - Aug 2015

  Taking part in the Schools Direct Program, incorporating a PGCE qualification, ultimately leading to a QTS status. Qualified with a 1* grade.



St. Mary's C of E Primary School

• Southampton, United Kingdom

• Teaching Assistant

  • Jun 2013 - Aug 2014

  • To take responsibility for planning and implementing appropriate work programmes for individuals and groups of children, within the framework of national and school policies. • To deliver intervention programmes for individuals and groups of children to enable them to make accelerated progress to reduce any gaps in attainment. • To maintain assessment records and report on pupils’ progress to senior staff and to parents and carers, in accordance with school policy. • To liaise closely with class teachers and the school SENCo. Show less