Fay Childs

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Senior Lecturer Practitioner
Faculty:
Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Education and Social Sciences
School:
School of Education
Location:
Cambridge
Areas of Expertise:
Education and teaching
Courses taught:

Fay is an experienced teacher with expertise in the development and support of Early Years and Primary practice. She has a particular interest in holistic, multi-sensory learning, and drawing this pedagogy into the Key Stage 2 primary classroom.

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Background

Fay began her teaching career in 2005, teaching in a Cambridge nursery school whilst gaining many hours of training and continuing professional development. After four years, she then moved into a local authority role as an Early Years Foundation Stage Advisor; sharing expertise, monitoring provision of nursery providers and leading training sessions to practitioners and childminders.

Moving back into a teaching role was crucial to enable Fay to develop her knowledge and skills of the primary curriculum. Whilst at her current school (Bottisham Community Primary) she has experience of teaching all age groups from Nursery to Year 6 and is now settled firmly in 3/4, where she can fully explore her interest of transition from Key Stage 1 to 2. She has extensive experience of mentoring SCITT students, PGCE teacher trainees as well as mentoring students from ARU and Bottisham Village College.

At ARU, Fay is a Senior Lecturer Practitioner and a Lead Mentor. She had responsibility for teaching and assessing the Primary Education Studies undergraduate course in Peterborough in trimester 2 of 2024 but will now be teaching and assessing the teacher trainees on the BEd Primary Education course at the Cambridge campus as well as acting as a Personal Development Tutor to the trainees and as Lead Mentor to the school-based providers.

Research interests
  • Drawing Early Years learning into the KS2 primary classroom
  • Development in robust transitions from KS1 to KS2
  • PSHE (Personal, Social, Health, Economic Education) in Primary schools and higher education
  • Teacher education and development

     

Qualifications
  • PGCert Mentoring for Initial Teacher Training, ARU
  • NPQML in Primary Education, Leadership East
  • PGCE Early Years, University of Cambridge
  • BA Hons Performing Arts, Middlesex University London
Memberships, editorial boards
  • Chartered College of Teaching, member