Qualifications and Accreditation

  • First Class BA, MPhil., PhD, all University of Birmingham

  • Qualified Teaching Status (King Edward's Consortium)

  • Qualified Learning Mentor (King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls)

  • Edexcel IGCSE English Language Paper 1 examiner (2016, 2018, 2022)

  • Study Coach for 10X Study Academy, Singapore (2023)

  • CIE English Literature A-Level examiner (2023)

  • OCR English Literature A-Level examiner Paper 1 (2024, 2025, 2026)

  • AQA English Language GCSE examiner Paper 2 (2026)

I am passionate about my subject and knew from a young age that I wanted to study it for as long as possible. After graduating with a First Class degree in English (in the top 10% of my cohort), I achieved a Masters in English Literature (focusing on Victorian through to Modernist Literature), before applying for and achieving a PhD in English Literature.

While studying for my PhD, I was given the opportunity to teach undergraduates, and it was this experience that inspired my ambition to become a secondary school teacher: I loved running the seminars and interacting with the students, and their positive feedback motivated me to make the move into teaching.

Immediately after completing my PhD, I initially worked as a Learning Mentor in the leading grammar school in Birmingham: King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls. I then trained at the King Edward’s School Consortium, one of the leading teacher training organisations in the country, before graduating as ‘outstanding’. My first full-time teaching position was at Oakham School (teaching Years 7-13, including GCSE, A-Level and IB), where I worked for 7 years.

I moved to Malvern to be nearer to family and worked at the prestigious international boarding school, Malvern College (ages 13-18) before taking on a new Part-Time position at Malvern St. James, a leading independent boarding and day school for girls, where my GCSE class achieved an average of 1 grade value-added (with many in the class achieving 2-3 grades higher than predicted). My A-level set scored 80% A*-A grades and 100% A*-C grades.

Ready for a new challenge, I have recently been appointed to work at one of Britain’s leading grammar schools: Pate’s Grammar School in Cheltenham, which is placed 5th nationally in the grammar school league tables (2026). It is a joy to work with such motivated students. I am teaching the WJEC Eduqas GCSE specifications and the OCR A-level specification, as well as Year 8 and Year 9 classes.