So excited to start this course to build on what I already do. Reading the intro is making me teary-eyed, as I see put into words all the things I take joy in providing alongside GCSEs, spellings and essay structures: 'Rather than encouraging clients to assimilate to neurotypical standards, practitioners can help them deepen self-understanding, develop sustainable strategies, and live in alignment with their natural rhythms and values.' 'understanding neurodiversity ... enab

I love having coffee with my friend Chris. Always fun, not just because she's awesome, but because of our shared passions: ways to use movement, visuals and play to help kids understand what maths actually means belief that there is no point teaching maths, unless you teach mathematical thinking (the choir we both sing in) (cats) A lot of my maths teaching is already inspired by her ideas. Most of my maths students have already enjoyed turning Play-Doh into fractions. In the

Apologies for the toilet humour... but also HUGE THANKS to my student A who taught me the term 'brain fart'. Unbelievable how many years I was helping anxious students understand why their brains go blank, without the term 'brain fart' to make them giggle and help carry them back into being able to think again. A brain fart is when your brain goes blank for a moment. Reasons vary. The reason I come across most is panic. And a common response to this panic is more panic.

Music is a fantastic tool for motivation and regulation – not just for homework and revision but even, believe it or not, for exams. How music helps Music helps in so many ways: Jiggling along to a song's rhythm provides a channel for movement, when sitting still takes more concentration than you have to spare. Following along with a track's "feels" provides an easy channel for emotions, when suppressing stress or anxiety only makes it harder to think. Singing along to the mu

Just gave my last exam lesson for the year. So proud of my students for all that they've overcome!! Chief highlights of this exam season for me: using the proportion of high heels and flats in my future-fashion-student's wardrobe to learn about ratio getting momentarily distracted from introducing a student to the deliciousness of half rhymes by her cat getting trapped in my long skirt a student teaching me about the world's only flightless parrot – and then us using its big

(hard not to feel like I was posing for Beyoncé’s ‘Single Ladies’ while taking these photos) A common problem for my students lessons is that horrible dread of making mistakes. It’s so easy to get stuck – you make a mistake, you freak out about it, your brain freezes up … and now it feels like you can’t do anything. Least of all risk making another mistake that might make your brain freeze even more. So I’m forever grateful to my old singing teacher who taught me the 5 stages