Having started her career over 16 years ago teaching in The City of Nottingham as a Maths teacher, she quickly became the school Gifted and Talented coordinator and then second in Faculty. She moved to work at Malmesbury School in 2008 where she qualified as an Advanced Skills Teacher doing both in-reach and out-reach work across Wiltshire and Bristol, before becoming an ‘extremely supportive and adaptable’ Head of Maths and Computing. As a previous Head of a core subject and large faculty Emma-Jane is adept at managing staff and leading from the front to ensure the best possible outcomes for students. She was part of the team that wrote and delivered the maths TSST programme for the Avon Teaching School Alliance and created a subject knowledge enhancement course for Teaching Assistants. She has a PGCert. in Mathematics Leadership and completed an action research project on the assessment cycle. Emma-Jane has a keen interest in the use of technology to support education and leads on remote education across the Trust.
Emma-Jane feels passionately about deep collaboration among all teachers and leaders to continuously improve quality of education. She is a trained Olevi facilitator and runs CPD workshops, looking to ensure they have a longer-term impact on the practice of colleagues. She has mentored both newly qualified teachers and those with more experience, across a variety of school settings with staff commenting on her ‘productive feedback from observations…positive role in team teaching…well prepared and indexed resources made available… imaginative use of tasks and enthusiasm’.