About Me

From the very start of her teaching career, Emma’s passion for Early Years and Primary 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 Primary Education 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. Emma has broadened and deepened her school and setting improvement over the last six years and has school 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 it is to shift, the greater the need to achieve it for those children.

Alongside her professional experience, Emma believes young children deserve the most qualified and knowledgeable staff in the business. Professionally, she holds both the National Professional Qualification in Executive Leadership and the National Professional Qualification in Headship, as well as a range of other certified qualifications, e.g. DSL, Safeguarding and Prevent. She has completed a NEBOSH in safety in educational establishments, so her work always considers the wider aspects of working in schools. 

Emma's academic knowledge and her love of research bring the best of what we think and know in the field to a school's front door. She thrives in academic settings and is currently pursuing her PhD in educational play, aiming to bring something new to the field. Her Master's in Science in Educational Leadership and Management focused on Inclusion in the mainstream school, and she has been a SENDCo and Inclusion Manager.

She supports school governance, having been both a co-opted and a parent governor at multiple local primaries and currently sits as a Governor at a secondary and as a Member of the Oak Trees Multi-academy Trust, which she helped establish.

Emma supports the wider aspects of education through being a Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching, a Member of Early Education and a Member of BERA and the Helen Hamylen Institute.