In September 2018, I was appointed as Second in Mathematics as well as PSHE & Citizenship Coordinator. These were opportunities that I actively sought to broaden my teaching and leadership experience.

I am a keen traveller and have been fortunate enough to have taken part in two foreign residential trips in my NQT year, one educational, one active. Residential trips allow you to build on the fundamental relationships with your students and peers. Teaching has also allowed me to take my enthusiasm for mathematics one step further by attending conferences and workshops throughout the country, with the added benefit of networking with other secondary mathematics teachers.

In 2019, I secured a role at Warminster School as Maths Teacher and Deputy Head of Arnold House. As a Mathematician, I learn by understanding the underlying principles and theory of a problem. What appeals to me most about the subject is that I am able to analyse and discuss why such methods are used and how they are derived. Rather than just being one-dimensional, mathematics needs to be discussed and analysed. I am enthusiastic and excited to put everything I have learnt in mathematics into practice and share my appreciation of the subject with future generations of students.

AMP SCITT was key in building my confidence as well as core knowledge and provided a very supportive and encouraging environment. I am still in touch with members of the AMP SCITT team, teachers from my placement schools and other trainee teachers and am using everything that I learned to drive my teaching career.