Subject Leadership
Leading English across year groups, driving consistency, progression and higher standards.
Leadership that strengthens people, practice and possibilities.
I lead through collaboration, professional growth and shared purpose.
How I Lead and Contribute
Curriculum Planning
Mapping and sequencing learning to the curriculum, with cross-curricular links and differentiation.
Mentoring & Support
Mentoring colleagues through professional discussion, shared resources and hands-on development support.
School Coordination
Coordinating assessments, national competitions and whole-school academic initiatives end to end.
Teacher Development
Facilitating CPD for around 30 to 35 teachers, then supporting them to embed it in practice.
Wider-School Contribution
Leading assemblies, Prize Day, the Spelling Bee, Expanding Your Lexicon and Student Council coaching.
Leadership in Action
Growing Teachers, Strengthening Practice
I delivered a CPD session on the Happy Schools Framework and facilitated a session on the Rigor/Relevance Framework, focused on its relevance strand and on practical application in the classroom, for around 30 to 35 teachers. Both are externally published frameworks: Happy Schools is UNESCO’s, and Rigor/Relevance comes from Corwin Press. Of the 24 colleagues who completed a feedback form after the Rigor/Relevance session, 23 rated it 4 or 5 out of 5.
- Connecting objectives to real-life contexts
- Aligning goals with standards and success criteria
- Effective feedback and self-assessment
- Positive, inclusive classrooms and wellbeing
- Follow-up through professional discussion and shared resources
Developing Others
I believe leadership is about creating opportunities for others to grow. I support colleagues through professional discussions, collaborative planning, lesson observation preparation and the sharing of practical, evidence-informed teaching strategies.
- Peer observation encouraged across the team
- An open-door classroom: colleagues welcome to observe lessons
- Ideas exchanged and effective practice reflected on together
- High-quality teaching modelled rather than described
- A culture of continuous professional learning and improvement
Sequencing Learning With Purpose
I have contributed to curriculum mapping by aligning objectives with the UK curriculum and Cambridge Primary framework and ensuring progression across terms, with cross-curricular links and built-in differentiation.
- Long- and medium-term sequencing across terms
- An English unit integrating reading, grammar and writing around instruction writing
- Systematic phonics during Levelled Reading periods
- Guided reading using decoding, fluency and comprehension strategies
Contributing Beyond My Classroom
I plan and lead initiatives that build pupil confidence, expression and a sense of belonging across the school.
- Planned and led class assemblies on values and character education
- Selected to present a class skit at whole-school Prize Day
- Co-organised the Spelling Bee and Expanding Your Lexicon competitions
- Coached Student Council members for speeches and presentations
Coordinating Academic Competitions
As activity coordinator for the HRCA, IKMC and ICATS national academic competitions, I managed the full cycle end to end.
- Liaising with organisers and promoting participation
- Coordinating student registrations
- Organising and invigilating assessments
- Submitting completed papers
- Communicating outcomes and certificates to pupils and parents
Recognition & Verified Practice
Outstanding overall
Outstanding overall grade in three formal lesson observations, 2025 to 2026
- Teaching
- Learning Environment
- Progress
- Assessment
The four domains assessed in each observation.
- 2025 Antonyms · Year 1 English Outstanding
- 2025 Information texts · Year 1 English Outstanding
- 2026 Story structure · Year 1 English Outstanding