I have worked in education for 25 years both as a teacher and within the Local Authority as part of the school improvement team.

Over recent years I have been doing one to one, and small group intervention work, combined with some supply and short term contract work.

I have taught across all key stages but I particularly enjoy upper key stage two.

I believe that teaching should be centred around the learning needs of the child and that good conceptual understanding comes from scaffolding learning, allowing the learner to move from what they already know, to what they can know, through well timed and targeted intervention combined with high order, open questioning.

Learning should be fun, challenging and extremely rewarding.