Top Tips for Single Parent Teachers

Top Tips for Single Parent Teachers

Guest blogger, Louise Lewis (@MissLLewis) is an Assistant Head of Science and Research Lead, and single parent to her daughter.  Here, she shares her experience of parenting and teaching, and her top tips for colleagues and schools keen to support their single parent...
Farihah Alam

Farihah Alam

Interim Headteacher, and mum of one, Farihah Alam (@farihahalam), shares how taking on challenges during her maternity leave gave her the courage to step up to headship when she returned to school. In October 2023, I gave birth to my daughter having been a Deputy...
Reflections on Being a Black Teacher

Reflections on Being a Black Teacher

Maternity leave gives MTPT Project Blogger, Denique, the opportunity to reflect on race, identity and the importance of role models in our schools. Working in such a culturally diverse school in the UK has meant that I have the pleasure of teaching children from a...
Mother and Other

Mother and Other

EEmily Pringle (@EHP89), History Teacher and The MTPT Project’s Lincolnshire Representative explores her identity as a mother-teacher, and the opportunities to be grasped as she continues to progress as a teacher. As I enter my mid 30s and (I think) the end of...