About

After graduating from University with an Economics degree, I spent three months living and studying beginners German in Berlin. I continued to study German whilst working in various roles such as sales before I worked as a Fremdsprachenassistent for a year at Ernst Abbe Gymnasium, in Eisenach, Thuringia. On my return I worked for Rolls Royce for three years, where I used my German language skills every day. At Rolls Royce and other companies I have worked at, I found that the lack of foreign language skills meant that those with language skills, especially German, were offered more opportunities. 

In September 2012 I completed my teacher training in Primary Education with German at Newman University and was offered a job teaching Year 1 in my placement school. Teaching these younger children gave me an excellent grounding in techniques I use for teaching German. In the Summer of 2013 I took part in the Internationaler Sommerkurs at the Universität Erfurt and after completing the course I took the Goethe-Zertificat C1 Zentrale Mittelstufenprüfung exam in Berlin and passed with 'gut', with a particularly high level of spoken German.   

I have been the German Teacher at The Oval Primary School in Birmingham, England since September 2014. The Oval is 3-form entry which means I am teaching German to around 360 Key Stage 2 pupils. In my first year of teaching German, I was nominated for and won a 'Special Mention' at the German Teacher Awards, for 'setting standards of excellence in the teaching of German as a foreign language in the United Kingdom'. I was presented the award by the German Ambassador Dr Peter Ammon and the Welsh Minister of Education and Skills, Huw Lewis AM (pictured above, provided by the German Embassy, London).