Billingshurst, England, United Kingdom
Experience includes secondary teaching and leadership, management consultancy and business development.
I lead on student progress and outcomes. I joined Seaford in September 2018 as Assistant Head and my role was formalised as Deputy Head in September 2023 having undertaken Deputy level aspects since September 2021 following a management restructure. In my time at Seaford, I: ● Have gained a reputation for being a visible, proactive and approachable school leader. ● Lead on classroom expectations and uniform and appearance. ● Lead on exams (internal and external) and reporting which has contributed significantly to academic excellence across the school and noted by an ISI EQI in March 2023 as a “robust whole school tracking system”. ● Coordinate our preparations for ISI inspections to ensure we demonstrate excellent outcomes across the board – academic and pastoral. We achieved ‘Excellent’ in an ISI EQI in March 2023. ● Introduced the Ad Alta (“reach for the heights”) characteristics for developing independence which students “value highly” and “recognise how positively they influence their moral education” (ISI EQI, March 2023). ● Introduced the Impact Review Cycle to develop accountability amongst Heads of Department by engaging them in termly activities to evaluate outcomes, teaching, learning, prep (homework) and subject level student voice. The Impact Review Cycle has been recognised to contribute to “excellent progress” (ISI EQI, March 2023) of students in their academic work. ● Have secured teaching excellence through developing and embedding a teaching and learning framework to support Seaford’s ethos of “personal best outcomes” for all. ● Have developed teachers through CPD learning walks (running 100+ with staff to date), creating INSET, producing pedagogy bulletins and implementing 1:1 formal/informal support. ● Organise key school events such as Open Mornings and Leavers’ Ball. ● Chair the Heads of Department group. ● Recruit and lead the school prefect team. ● Lead the scholarship programme. ● Teach Maths and Computer Science.
See current role for responsibilities and impact.
Local Governor for Bohunt Horsham, part of the Bohunt Education Trust (BET).
I was accountable for whole school outcomes in Maths in a challenging Croydon school with line management responsibility for Maths, Computer Science, Business Studies and PE. In my role, I: ● Shaped an intense repair and delivery programme on joining for the 2016/17 Year 11 cohort which saw my team deliver the entire 9-1 Mathematics curriculum within two terms and achieve 58% Grades 9-4 compared to 27% in the November 2016 mocks. Summer 2018 exams results were 61% at Grade 4 or above. ● Gained verbal recognition from the Lead Inspector during a full Ofsted Inspection in my first 30 days as “a leader who leads by example and has a clear plan for improvement”. ● Developed staff in the Faculty so that over 80% met school expectations in June 2017 compared to 60% in October 2016. This included use of support plans where needed. ● Raised standards across classrooms by developing assessment and progress trackers that were praised as good practice by a Section 8 Inspector and the Local Authority and which I shared with staff through INSET before they became whole school policy. ● Taught GCSE Computer Science and personally improved results from 23% at Grade 4 or above in 2017 to 50% in 2018.
I joined as Head of GCSE Computing and E-Learning in January 2015 and was promoted to Assistant Headteacher in September 2015 as part of the Future Leaders programme. In my role, I: ● Raised achievement in the underperforming Computing department within 2 terms of joining the school by more than doubling the number of A*-Cs from 39% in 2014 to 95% in 2015 with 94.1% A*-Cs for my GCSE Computing group, 91.7% A*-Cs for my CIDA (Level 2 qualification) group and 100% A*-Cs for my ECDL (Level 2 qualification) intervention group. ● Created and led a KS4 raising standards project that paired up 36 under achieving and dis-engaged Year 10 and 11 students with 25 Success Champions who mentor the whole individual and focus on academic progress, attitude to learning and attendance. Outcomes included a Progress 8 increase for 61.1% of the students in the group, an attendance increase for 50% of students in the group and a reduction in behaviour incidents for 52.8% of students in the group (last two all measured against a previous comparable period). ● Led on whole school online safeguarding and refreshed the approach which has included delivering parent workshops with EE, creating e-reporting channels, leading whole school assemblies, presenting at conferences, writing key stage specific curriculum materials, speaking with the media and running video competitions which are now being rolled out across Brighton and Hove. ● Directly managed the Computing and Business Studies teaching departments and line managed the Art department.
I sat on the external Advisory Board of Saving Londoners’ Lives – a project aimed to provide emergency life support (ELS) skills training to London schools at no cost to them. As part of this, I advise and support the project leadership to ensure this award winning project, with reach to over 480 schools, is sustainable and continues to save Londoner’s lives for decades.