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I am the Primary Initial Teacher Education Professional Lead for the Undergraduate and Postgraduate Primary Education programmes. I teach across both courses, predominantly on the Professional Practice modules. 

I work collaboratively with the Primary team as well as the PGCE Secondary Professional Lead to align our courses and to ensure consistency within our robust, ambitious and carefully sequenced curriculums. 

I work closely with the Partnership Lead and Placements team to develop partnership links with schools and arrange professional practice placements for students across both courses. I am responsible for developing the school experience documentation, purposefully integrated tasks and assessment processes for professional practice. I liaise closely with school-based mentors and Kingston lead mentors, who also support our students in school. 

I am a personal tutor for BA Primary Education students and work closely with our student reps, listening to their views and areas for development so that they recognise that their contributions facilitate the enhancement of our provision. Previously, I have been the Route Lead for the Assessment Only Route to QTS, enabling skilled practitioners to achieve QTS through a non-teaching university-based route.

Prior to my role at ÖØ¿ÚζSM, I taught for 12 years in special educational needs, working with pupils aged from 3 to 16 with speech, language and communication difficulties. As a result of this previous experience, I have worked hard to ensure that SEND is embedded throughout our programmes and that students have the opportunity to develop confidence and robust pedagogies to effectively teach a range of pupils with different abilities and needs within a classroom setting.

I am working in collaboration with the Driver Youth Trust to ensure that all our students are able to work confidently and competently to support pupils with dyslexia and literacy difficulties in schools, enabling them to make progress in the classroom. We are actively trying to create systemic change in the way teachers are trained to support children with additional needs in the classroom. /about/news/kingston-university-supports-tv-chef-jamie-oliver-to-launch-new-dyslexia-awareness

I am involved in a specialist Inclusion and Social Justice research group, exploring rights and responsibilities for those with additional needs.

• MA (Hons) Psychology
• PGCE Primary