Supporting Adopters

Supporting Adopters

Alex Mason, English SLE, adoptive parent and The MTPT Project’s Adoption Advocate explains how schools can support teachers going through the adoption process. As you go through your adoption journey you are asked to create your ‘eco-map’ of people who will be...
Lockdown: Realistic Expectations

Lockdown: Realistic Expectations

Lucy Flower, The MTPT Project’s York Representative outlines the most helpful things that her school leadership team has done to support her as a working parent during the period of school closure and national lockdown. Trying to be a good parent to a newly...
Can a Man Do Maternity Coaching?

Can a Man Do Maternity Coaching?

Founder, Emma Sheppard, reflects on her own innate gender stereotyping as she introduces two new members of the Accreditation Coaching team. This month, we will be welcoming two new Coaches onto The MTPT Project Accreditation team, and they are male. Initially, this...
Film as CPD

Film as CPD

Emma Sheppard, Founder of The MTPT Project, explores how the simple act of vegging out in front of a film can be a great CPD and wellbeing opportunity. There are days, evenings and nights on maternity leave (let’s be honest, in life) when you really don’t...
IVF Policies

IVF Policies

This month, Sarah Hardy and Rebecca Foster courageously and honestly shared their experiences of parenting in a special edition of the TES. Their topics: IVF and miscarriage, respectively. The absence of discussion around pregnancy, maternity leave, early parenthood,...