Shahnawaz

I have worked at Greet School for nearly 12 years. The school has undergone a lot of change since I became a member of the team and has continually evolved and adapted to address and implement continuing changes in the primary curriculum. It has sought to develop new teaching and learning strategies brought on by various new initiatives, such as the Literacy and Numeracy Frameworks, letters and sounds and varied assessment procedures, such as the ITAFs in Year Two. As a result of Greet’s need to continually assess its performance in meeting the needs of its pupils and staff both academically and socially, I have been able to develop my own teaching skills, and curriculum knowledge and delivery through thorough training and opportunities for professional development.

Willing to travel: 20 miles

Experience: • Taught geography and P.E at secondary school for 4 ½ years
• Experience of teaching EYFS, KS1 and KS2 both class based and PPA cover.
• Part of after school football GML = Greet Mini League) and sports clubs
• Continued with the use of Bug Club and DB Primary to further raise standards of reading. Class teachers noticed the marked improvement in the childrens’ fluency, pace and intonation and again, the ability to answer more comprehension questions.
• The ‘Smart Teaching will be similar to my English learning goals, where children will know their objectives (child-friendly) and work towards meeting their goals.
• Use of ICT in my lessons to help engage children.
• Use White Rose Maths Hub for ideas including reasoning and Manipulatives (Visual representations).
• Active Maths training at Small Heath School has given me the confidence to make my Maths more practical and engaging and not always relying on written work in their books. This really helps the children who enjoy sports and can use and apply their sporting skills to help them in Maths.
• I have been in collaboration from teachers from a Primary School in Worcester and Great Malvern Primary school for the year 3 Community Cohesion Project. A meeting was arranged where we discussed ideas for the school visits.
• Whole School Assembly topic on Human Rights, focussing on children’s rights.
• fundraising event, which helped the Birmingham Children’s hospital and links in to the theme of Children’s Rights. Other activities include a Sports event, where children from each schools take part in. In addition, in order to incorporate Greet’s focus on improving the use of computing, I got the children from the three schools to write a blog about each other, which will act as an initial ‘ice-breaker’.
• I am also part of the Geography working party, which I am the lead member. Arranged for schools around the world to make a video about themselves for the Geography Day. (Turkey, Brunei and Bangladesh). Furthermore, Matt has been in collaboration with colleagues from Kuwait and the USA. We also made Vlogs from various countries ourselves (Shah in Morocco, Matt and Hussain in Oman) The purpose of the Vlogs was to share the experience of other countries with the children of Greet. (Geography Working Party)
• Used ‘Green-Screen’ Technology in my English lesson.
• Translated to Bengali-Speaking parents during the Year 3 Reading Workshop.
• Continued with Translating support with Sam during a very difficult meeting concerning safeguarding issues with a Year 3 Parent.
• I have used QR codes in my Maths lessons and as a result the children have been able to take ownership of their learning and it has allowed for children to work with each other better and articulate their answers and not be afraid of making mistakes. This gave them the understanding of having better learning goals.
• The use of ‘Green- Screening Technology’ during our Writing lesson, where we covered Non-Chronological reports allowed c