Meet The Pod Micro School Team

My first taste of teaching was in 2001, teaching children in Tanzania about how to reduce the risk of malaria. Since then, I have been hooked on teaching and my passion for helping the next generation achieve more.

I taught people from the age of two to adult in Japan before returning to the UK to qualify as a teacher in 2009. Over 11 years, I have taught in three different schools ( one in Essex and two in North Somerset), teaching all primary ages from 2 up to 11. I have been geography leader, curriculum designer, deputy headteacher, designated safeguarding leader and headteacher. 

Following the pandemic, I wanted to explore different ways to teach children outside of the constraints of the current school system, with a focus on experiences, service, personal learning and intensive research into a subject. I also wanted to cater for those children who find school a challenge so that they too can be supported by high quality teaching but in a more comfortable and nurturing environment.

Thus, Pod Micro School was born.

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I am married with two children and we all enjoy being outdoors and exploring nature. I can speak Japanese, I have climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and I once appeared on Mastermind!