Experience

YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER CO-OPERATIVE LEARNING TRUST

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

• Humanities teacher

  • Mar 2013 - Present

  I teach secondary school students humanities subjects, predominantly Religious Education, Travel and tourism, Sociology and Business and enterprise. As part of my role I use various pedagogical approaches to strengthen my classroom teaching, adapt the lessons and differentiate them depending on my students needs and progress. I use an array of data/EAL/SEN/PPI/LAC profiles for data analysis to help my planning for each individual student in each class including giving professional predictions. Relationships are incredibly important and I have built a good rapport with both students and staff, enabling me to strengthen and continuously improve my behaviour management skills. Other responsibilities in my role include break time duties, a tutor group where appropriate, presenting assemblies across the whole school, parents evenings and open evenings, liaising with parents on a day to day basis, various morning/evening staff meetings, book marking, data input, GCSE revision sessions during school holidays and after school, after school classes where appropriate, detentions and effectively monitoring and reporting behaviour, liaising with the pastoral team, lesson observations etc. I have previously mentored GCSE students assigned to me in the run up to their GCSE exams and became a mentor as part of a new Cool Scholars programme aimed at assisting PPI students to run a project of their choice and facilitating their sessions after school. I now currently attend Student Leadership meetings and Duke of Edinburgh meetings and support these students alongside the lead teacher with whole school and community projects. Show less



Yorkshire Humber Cooperative Learning Trust

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

• Head of RE, PSHE and SMSC (TLR)

  • Sep 2017 - Sep 2022

  I am in charge and coordinate these departments. I support and plan for all non-specialist teachers in the humanities faculty who teach my subjects. I coordinate all data analysis, the inputting of data, attend relevant school meetings and trainings, support with whole school policy implementation, liaise with parents on a regular basis and offer on-going support, coordinate and co-create assembly rota's, themed week events in the school, effectively monitor the implementation of SMSC across the whole school and by doing so work very closely with all Heads of Department, Progress leaders and Senior Leaders/ Directors. I work closely within my faculty with the Progress leader, Director and other Heads of Department to monitor Teaching and learning in our areas including learning walks, drop ins, book scrutinies and lesson observations, amongst other things. I also run and have ran a variety of training sessions to all staff around the topics of SMSC, Teacher training sessions, mentor trainings, RQT training, How to effectively work with others etc. I line manage and support the PSHE coordinator at our school and offer assistance where appropriate. We both attend any local city council meetings held to keep up to date with current PSHE guidance and the statutory guidance of its implementation from September 2020. We work closely with Headstart and Jigsaw as a part of this process and are in collaboration with other schools to plan and deliver an effective and engaging PSHE curriculum to all students from year 7 to Year 11. Show less



Northern Cooperative Teaching Alliance

• NCTA ITT Coordinator (TLR)

  • Apr 2018 - Jan 2020

  My main role was to oversee the Initial Teacher Training of trainee teachers and Newly Qualified teachers across our 9 Trust schools. This involved working with a range of training providers from the York and Hull area. Coordination of placement dates, trainings held at various local schools, induction days, mentor matching, on-going professional development for mentor training alongside daily support were the main functions of this role. Hosting and coordinating interviews for teacher trainee applicants at my main school or supporting interviews at other schools was also a part of this role. I myself also attended any mentor training sessions, regional meetings of all local training providers, celebration events and DofE updates to enhance my own professional development to best support my trainees and NQT's. I worked very closely with the East Riding NQT department to ensure on-going support for all NQT's who needed it. Alongside this I also coordinated School Experience placement dates at the school I am based at. These placement days were applied to directly by the candidate through UCAS websites and the referral was then sent to myself. I would liaise a timetable with the necessary department and plan an experience day for the candidate, including student tours of the school and a school introduction presentation by myself. I would personally liaised with the candidate to arrange convenient times and this occurred every Monday throughout the school year. Show less



Hull City Council

• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• ICT champion: Online-Safety (TLR)

  • Sep 2015 - Jul 2017

  Within this role I was the coordinator for online safety throughout the school. I went on various training's and liaised with other external agencies to support our online safety development including policies and practice. We were in the progression of attaining the 360 degree kite mark as part of our online safety development. To achieve this kite mark we carried out audits in the school, I attended relevant training which I then delivered to all staff, I supported with the redrafting of whole school policies, liaised with the ICT champions student panel to put appropriate action in place within the school and worked alongside my line manager and ICT technicians department to ensure correct provisions were in place on the school learning platform and network accessibility. I trained all staff on online safety and child exploitation online, including educating the students about awareness of online safety in a variety of ways such as assembly's, tutor time and lessons. I occasionally also assisted in training staff on google chrome books and google apps. Show less