Achievements

Worked with children and staff from the 'Children with Diabetes' charity

Worked as a Creative Partner Hub Coordinator in a school to raise EYFS and KS1 literacy levels

Appeared in Primary Times magazine.

Hosted a two-week alternative placement for a 3rd Year teaching student- very successful

Involved with Eco-school events

Helped to establish an area for allotments to be built so that a school can grow produce to eat

Helped to develop a Prayer Labyrinth with school children for them to use along with the local community

Delivered a workshop about Forest School/Learning Outside to multiple establishements/agencies

Provide Forest School training - level 1 and level 3

Former Head of a Forest School centre

Gained recognised NOCN centre status

Delivered a series of sessions for a Family Learning project

Hosted a Wilderness Living Skills session for children from 'Action for the Blind'

Taken part in a National Press visit to Trentham Estate to promote the Dangerous Book for Boys activities

I have done several interviews for Radio Stoke about the Dangerous Book for Boys days

A top 100 National Small Business- Barclays Trading Places 2009

I attend school awards ceremonies to hand out Forest School certificates

Subject of a dissertation about Forest Schools in the EYFS

Planned and delivered a 'half-term' Forest School programme for children and their parents/guardians for Family Learning

Carried out work funded by The English Heritage Trust, via The Gateway Trust

Set up links to run courses for schools and public within the parks of Stoke-on-Trent

Set up links to run courses for Guides and non-Guides at a camp site

Delivered 'Dangerous Book for Boys' activity days at Trentham over the summer of 2009

Deliver 'taster' days for the general public at Trentham

Set up the site and developed courses to run at Trentham Estate (on-going)

Taken part in a tree planting project funded by the West Midlands Forestry Commission

Taken part in two projects linked to Creative Partnerships & the Creative Curriculum

1. Measuring the impact of the Creative Curriculum upon Children
2. Speaking, Listening and Teamwork development

Worked with Travellers children

Worked with a nursery located in a local Muslim community

Worked long term in a Catholic school

Appeared in The North Staffordshire Magazine- February 2009

Appeared several times in the Sentinel newspaper

Appeared in local and national newspapers

Delivered INSET's, both on and off site- ranging from 7 to 60 members of staff

Delivered Survival activity days to children on-site

Worked with a group of children from Houghton Special School, North Staffordshire

Deliver Wilderness Living Skills and Forest School sessions around the county of Staffordshire

Qualified ITC First Aider

Qualified Forest School Leader- Level 3

Organised Forest School and first aid training for a cluster of schools

Attended several off-road vehicle courses

Attended several survival training courses around the country

Head of Geography department KS2 and KS3

Involved with KS2 SAT's for nearly 10 years

Numeracy and Maths coordinator KS1 and 2- Introduced the 'Numeracy hour'

Equivalent grading in Taiji to be 2nd Dan black belt

Articles published in an international magazine about Taiji

Former member of World Taiji Boxing Association- WTBA

Qualified as a teacher in 1995- MMU- BEd(Hons) degree in Education and Geography