Francesca Taylor
English Co-Ordinator and Teacher at Hertsmere Jewish Primary School Trust- Claim this Profile
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Credentials
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Qualified Teaching Status
London Borough of Barnet
Experience
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Hertsmere Jewish Primary School Trust
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United Kingdom
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Primary and Secondary Education
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1 - 100 Employee
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English Co-Ordinator and Teacher
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Dec 2018 - Present
• Interacting and leading colleagues on a professional level to promote understanding of the English curriculum. • Carrying out the professional duties of a teacher. • Maintaining high standards of teaching and learning. • Helping year groups write their short- and long-term plans to ensure there is a larger variety covered and prior knowledge built on. • Marking, monitoring, assessment and data scrutinies across all years in reading, phonics, writing, handwriting and spellings. • Good communication with parents verbally or in a written form. • I am accountable for securing the highest standards of pupil achievement across the English Curriculum through effective monitoring and evaluation. • Reviewing and writing policy documents for English, Marking and Covid Catch Up. • Responsible for ensuring our school’s intent, implication and impact statements are met and adhered to. • Scrutinising and analysing data effectively to inform policies, whole school improvement and teaching. • Identifying the areas of where improvement is needed and take effective action to remedy and eradicate under achievement and to close the gap. • Ensuring my professional development is up to date with new research and findings and ensure I share these with the rest of the school. Currently carrying out the NPQLT qualification with Ambition University. • Writing the English Action plan as part of the school development plan and evaluating it on a termly basis. • Collaborating and supporting teachers to ensure progression, challenge and continuity across year groups. • Running INSETs for teachers and support staff. • Advising and informing ECT and new staff of the English subject policy and practice within the school. • Attending courses. • Running whole school events such as sponsored read, World Book Days and assessment weeks and assemblies. • Training up student teachers and communicating with their University Lecturers regarding their progress and next steps. Show less
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English Co-Ordinator and Teacher
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Sep 2013 - Jun 2018
• Used my subject knowledge to plan well-structured lessons as well as appropriate activities that motivated, inspired and engaged the children to learn. • Improved literacy throughout the school, which involved helping other teachers plan and carry out lessons, giving help, advice and feedback to other teachers and carrying out case studies of selected pupils in both KS1 and KS2. • Working with a select few children who are gifted and talented during school and in an after school club. • Writing the school policies. • Running INSETs • Book scrutinises • Mentoring student teachers and ECTs: Observing their lessons and giving constructive feedback and next step targets. Teaching model lessons, helping them plan and deliver lessons and assisting with behaviour management. • Meeting with the University lecturer to discuss the student’s progress. • Understanding the children’s strengths and areas for development by constantly using different AfL strategies and providing children with their next steps, setting high expectations. • Using a wide range of teaching strategies and sign language to meet the needs of all individuals, ranging from EAL, SEN and the Gifted and Talented. • Taking a firm but fair as well as consistent approach to behaviour management in line with the school policy. • Providing a caring and nurturing learning environment for all children to feel safe in so they can grow and progress. • Reflecting on my lessons in order to make improvements which will optimise pupil progress. • Communicating effectively with parents, children and other teachers and outside agencies verbally and in writing. • Being pro- active around the school by running the school newspaper, after school sports clubs and taking assemblies. • Creating ‘learning walls’ and ‘working wall’s around the school and in the classroom to aid the children’s learning. • Setting homework and planning whole year group trips to consolidate and extend their knowledge and understanding. Show less
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The Akiva School
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United Kingdom
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Primary and Secondary Education
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Trainee Teacher
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Sep 2012 - Sep 2013
• Planed lessons that are well differentiated and use different learning styles. • Made sure I was aware of children’s prior knowledge and capabilities and ensure that the lessons I plan and teach build on these. • Taught and planed phonics using Letters and Sounds. • Marked work and setting targets both orally and in their books to stretch children of all abilities to move children’s learning forwards and to raise standards. • Managed whole class behaviour inside and outside of the classroom, setting expectations of attitudes, values and behaviour. • Implemented rewards and consequences in line with the behaviour policy. • Tracked children and predicting levels using the APP format. • Carried out the whole school approach to thinking skills using mind maps, De Bono’s thinking hats and Habits of Mind. • Established a safe and stimulating environment. • Communicates with parents effectively and professionally and deploy teaching assistants wisely. • Organised and ran school trips so children can experience learning outside of the school. • Attended INSETs, lectures at the University to help improve my professional development. Show less
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Teaching Assistant
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Sep 2011 - Jul 2012
• Worked one to one with small groups running interventions such as PAT, Social Skills and providing children with additional support when needed. • Managed behaviour in class, using rewards and consequences. • Carried out restorative justice. • Highlighted where additional help may be needed and worked closely with the class teacher to cater for all the needs of the children. • Planned with class teacher to ensure time and energy is best spent in a way that optimises learning for the class. • Prepared the classroom and resources for the lessons. • Created displays of work and creating ‘learning walls’. Show less
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Learning Support Assistant
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Sep 2010 - Jul 2011
• Provided one to one tuition with students, supporting them in their learning. • Dealt with challenging behaviour, statemented, autistic, ADHD and other behaviour problems on a daily basis. • Differentiated work for the individual. • Daily report writing, frequent meetings to attend to and efficient and precise communication both verbally and written. • Put into place interventions to benefit the student and to help the process of reintegration. • De- escalated behaviour. • Looked out for the children’s welfare. Show less
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Education
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2007 - 2010
University of Worcester
Psychology, Psychology
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