I love teaching and spent the early part of my career leading Drama departments in a number of different schools in the UK, before making the decision to retrain in the field of SEND. I am extremely passionate about Inclusive education and I strongly believe that every student has the right to be educated in a school like WIS. I love the continual, lifelong learning that working in education provides and have a number of post graduate qualifications, including Advanced Certificates in Education in both SpLD and Autism. I gained the UK National Award for Special Educational Needs Coordination, and was a Senior Leader SENDCo in the UK before coming to Dubai in 2010. I have also gained the Masters level Certificate in Psychometric Testing, Assessment and Access Arrangements (CPT3A). I joined WIS in 2010 as Secondary Head of Inclusion and soon become part of the Senior Leadership team, taking on the Pastoral Care and Support role for Secondary for a number of years. In my current role as Assistant Head Teacher for whole school Inclusion at WIS, I love to see how students grow and develop through school and I am very proud that our dedication and success with Inclusion has been reflected in outstanding judgements from KHDA every year. My wider role as GEMS Wellington Director of Inclusion ensures that I can create further opportunities for staff, parents and our students of determination across the cluster, and take our Inclusive practices beyond outstanding.