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After graduating from the University of Manchester. I began a career in publishing and by the time I started a family in my early 30s, I had enjoyed the roles of both editor and publisher and completed an MBA around my full-time job.
However, I had long held a desire to teach and retrained in the outstanding school that my children attended. Alongside my class teacher responsibilities, I took on the role of Reading Coordinator and English Subject Leader. I organised Book Weeks, set up successful reading incentives, ran book clubs for both children and staff, and trained colleagues in new reading and writing programmes. I am experienced in preparing children for both Year 6 and Year 2 SATs and 11+ entrance exams, and am also a Year 6 SATs marker and judge of the BBC's 500 Words writing competition. In addition to face-to-face tutoring, I have published the first in a series of workbooks helping children learn at home, and also created times tables and creative writing distance learning programmes that children can access affordably and flexibly. I cannot adequately express the joy of a child rushing to tell me that they have finished a book and wanting to tell me about it – particularly those who had previously read only reluctantly. I also take great pleasure in enabling children to find their voice as a writer and grow in confidence in maths. I remain an avid reader of children’s fiction which helps me to confidently recommend books to children. I have two children, both of whom I tutored successfully to sit their 11+ exams. They live with me and my husband and our dog, Bruno and cat, Kitkat. |
