I have ten years' experience supporting schools and multi-academy trusts on a variety of aspects of school improvement at subject and senior leader level. I have extensive experience of training, mentoring, and coaching teachers, from trainee teachers to experienced senior leaders. I am a Senior Assessor for leading UK-based and international exam boards.

 

I draw on almost 20 years of experience as a teacher and leader. I have worked as a history teacher, head of house, subject leader, and for over a decade, in two large secondary schools I have worked as a senior leader, director of teaching school, and director of continuing professional development for a teaching school hub (240 schools). As a senior leader I have led professional development, teaching and learning, appraisal, educational research, and as director of a teaching school I coordinated school improvement across Buckinghamshire.

 

I have also worked extensively with Initial Teacher Training: as a mentor for the Cambridge University History PGCE, leader of the BEST History SCITT (school-centred initial teacher training), and as Professional Tutor (for trainee teachers and Early Career Teachers).

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I participate in and contribute to the history subject community as a member of the Historical Association's (HA) Secondary Committee and as a Quality Mark Assessor for the HA.

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I am committed to lifelong learning, having studied at the University of St Andrews and Cambridge to achieve an MA (Hons), a PGCE and an MEd. I also hold the NPQH. I have authored various history-specific and leadership educational pieces and regularly present at national conferences and for educational organisations.

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I am a mum to three young children and a passionate advocate of flexible working. In my spare time I enjoy volunteering as a governor, and reading, swimming, and running.