Create 2 Inspire | Using my creativity to inspire educators and engage learners

My Mission

My overriding aim is to use my creativity to inspire other educational professionals, whether they be PGCE/BEd students, ECTs, classroom teachers, Subject Leaders, Key Stage Coordinators, Senior Leaders, Headteachers or Learning and Community Engagement Officers within the heritage sector. It is hoped that they, in turn, will adopt, adapt and develop new teaching activities and provide stimulating learning experiences for all the youngsters that they come into contact with. Ultimately, if this has been achieved, then I will have had a small, but worthy, impact on our future generation of educators and learners.

A little more about me …

Fifteen years teaching many subjects across a broad age range in a variety of schools has certainly proved invaluable for my current role as a freelance author and consultant and private tutor.
In the past, I have been based in mainstream, independent, selective and comprehensive schools. Whilst my PGCE is at secondary level, with my specialism identified as geography and religious studies as a second subject, I have taught from Key Stage 2 to Key Stage 5! Although much of my time has been dedicated to the teaching and learning of geography, I have also contributed to the delivery of many other subjects, largely across the humanities, as well as computing, PSHE/citizenship and the Extended Project Qualification (EPQ). As would be expected from my years in the profession, I have held numerous roles of responsibility alongside my teaching commitments, related to either the taught or extended curriculum. Involvement with staff and pupils at primary level has usually concentrated upon the promotion of a connected, creative curriculum, geography, global learning, transition, geographical skills and fieldwork or ‘taking learning beyond the classroom’.

For the past fourteen years, I have worked in a freelance capacity, undertaking a vast array of authoring and consultancy tasks. Much of what I do has a county or south west focus. Nevertheless, since the pandemic struck in March 2020, my expertise is increasingly being called upon from further afield. Every week is different, but what I might lack in terms of routine, is more than made up for by the gratification that I receive.