Secondary Creative Arts, Design & Technology

I have a degree in fashion and textile design which I used in my early career as a costume designer and maker; This job enabled me to travel the world on different jobs and was really fun. I love painting, especially portraits and I particularly 
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Like many other teachers, I was heavily inspired by my own English teacher at school who once called me an ‘oxymoron’. His style of teaching is what made me the teacher I am today. However, teaching wasn’t always my end goal in life! My original 
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In my career as an educator, I have held a variety of different roles teaching English and PE. I started my journey as a TA at the secondary school I attended as a teenager (which was interesting!) and then went on to become a qualified 
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My background was very unbookish, I wanted to play football and not much else. Then I was taught design by Peter Pickering (Mr. Pickering to me), and it was as though he walked into my head and turned all the lights on. He taught me 
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