About Me

From the very start of her teaching career, Emma’s passion for Primary and Early Years education has been unmistakable. Even in the early stages of her career her drive to lead, improve, and embed lasting change within schools was clear. Today, she brings that same determination combining her school improvement experience with her lifelong passion for EYFS and KS1 to bring a new way of talking and thinking about practice in EYFS . Over and over School and Trust Leaders alongside EYFS practitioners say 'Ah, that just makes so much sense" 

Following a sustained career in Primary School Leadership and Headship including being a Founder Headteacher establishing a multi-academy Trust in the North West of England. Over the last six years, Emma has  broadened and deepened her school and setting improvement experience across the full range of school and provision types including the maintained, special, PVI and independent sectors and works both within and alongside multi-academy trusts. Working with schools and settings in her local area, across multiple Local Authority areas in the North West and wider throughout England there is not a school context or community profile Emma has not experienced. She really does thrive on a challenge she believes the harder to shift, the greater the need to achieve it for those children.

Alongside her professional expertise, Emma believes young children deserve the most academically qualified and knowledgable staff in the business. Holding the National Professional Qualification in Executive Leadership and working through her PhD in Education and Schools, researching educational play Emma's academic knowledge and her love of research brings the best of what we think and know in the fields to a schools front door. Having a Masters in the Strategic Leadership of Inclusion alongside experience as a SENCo Emma's natural instict is to adapt for all. The school she lead was well known for being welcoming and inclusive before those were ever part of an Ofsted framework. 

Alongside her professional expertise, Emma thrives in academic spaces. She is currently undertaking her PhD in Education, combining it with the NPQEL (nearly complete), and holds a Master’s in Education and Leadership with a focus on Inclusion in the mainstream primary context. She has a BEd (Hons) in Primary Education from Moray House (now part of Edinburgh University), NEBOSH certification in managing educational establishments, and is a Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching. She supports other professionals through final placement NPQH mentoring and is also an assessor for the Chartered College Leadership Qualification.

Emma is a co-opted governor at a Wirral primary school and sits on the board of Oak Trees Multi-Academy Trust, where she was a founding leader.