When I look back at my time at primary school, I can honestly say that it was the best time of my life. My memories of those years are nothing but positive. My mum remembers me coming home from school after my first day in reception and when she asked how I got on, I replied: “I don’t want to be the pupil, I want to be the teacher!”
My experiences there are what made me first want to be a teacher, and they have also helped shape me into the leader and deputy headteacher that I am today.
It wasn’t until I undertook some university volunteering work in a challenging school that I realised not all children have positive experiences of their primary education. I was shocked by the lack of direction within the school and the working conditions that staff and pupils had to deal with.
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