"I provide my service for every child who has a fundamental right to be seen and heard"

June 2024 – To-Date

• Self-employed ALN provider and educator
• Visiting Lecturer for the Educational Doctorate and Secondary Art and Design PGCE with QTS

April 2023 – April 2024 Acting Assistant Principal, Chester International School

Duties include:

• Building an inclusion framework for the strategic leadership and management of Inclusion - Equity, Diversity, Disadvantaged and SEND across the school.
• Providing student voice and leadership opportunities to ensure a fully inclusive educational experience.
• Line managing the SENCO to lead and report on SEND provision across the school.
• Providing a strategic approach to ensure teaching and learning is inclusive for all pupils.
• Ensuring equality and diversity and the use of quality first teaching and inclusion framework are central to learning, assessment and teaching; develop practice and experimentation amongst teaching staff to further develop skills and support innovation.
• Engaging fully with parents to maintain a positive home school link e.g. through coffee mornings, information sessions and workshops, particularly with disadvantaged groups.
• Ensuring that interventions are effective and are monitored and reviewed ensuring that pupils’ make progress.
• Understanding of SEND/Pupil Premium income streams. Use this to advise on the use of the school’s budget and other resources to meet pupils’ needs effectively.
• Identifying disadvantaged pupils’ barriers to learning in order to design, lead and deliver appropriate intervention strategies.
• Providing a clear and ambitious action plan for pupil premium and intervention provision for vulnerable learners.
• Ensuring that staff are aware of pupil premium and vulnerable pupils’, their progress and their needs.
• Providing highly visible support for the school’s pupil premium policy around the school.
• Providing highly visible behaviour management and pastoral support for pupils’ and staff

May 2021 – April 2024 Professional Learning Coach,

Chester International School.  Duties include:

• Working with the Teaching and Learning lead to create, drive and quality assure a professional development coaching model, which works to meet the needs of the strategic and annual school development plan and self-evaluation framework.
• Providing high quality coaching, mentoring and support to teaching and support staff across the school to promote excellent and inspirational learning, assessment and teaching and to provide structured support and improvement in their performance.
• Driving a skills audit which informs the personal and professional development model.
• Providing personalised and constructive action plans which includes training needs/request and targets for teaching staff to support their development to deliver consistently good and outstanding learning, assessment and teaching.
• Developing, identifying and disseminating case studies of best practice and to undertake relevant professional development to enhance learning, assessment and teaching skills including visits to outstanding colleges and research into best practice for dissemination.
• Consistently demonstrating outstanding teaching and act as a role model across the school and Trust to meet the needs of pupils, and staff

Sep 2018 – April 2024 Head of visual arts, Chester International School.

• Established and run a successful art department. I led and taught visual arts to KS4 and KS5 students and photography to KS4.

May 2016 – 2018 Hall Leader at Upton by Chester High School

• Organising and leading on whole school events