Emma Bridges

• Provide engaging and creative learning opportunities.
• Reinforce positive behaviour by encouraging efforts through affirmation statements and praising accomplishments.
• Provide a warm, supportive, and nurturing environment for developing academic, social, and emotional growth.
• Collaborate with teachers and outside agencies (OTs, RTLBs, Therapists) to develop IEPs for children with learning support needs.
• Accelerate student's progress by establishing clear routines, targeted plans and actionable strategies.
• Establish open communication and positive relationships with students, whānau, and colleagues.
• Foster positive and pleasant classroom culture while maintaining learning development goals.
• Ongoing assessment and reporting of student progress.

• Working closely with colleagues to successfully design and deliver innovative inquiry-based learning.
• Collaborative teaching to accelerate progress and support students in reaching their personalised learning goals.
• Supporting and guiding year group colleagues in the deliverance of structured literacy for 'target' students.
• Working closely with OTs, RTLBs, student therapists and other specialists to ensure students safety, and emotional and academic success both inside and outside the classroom.
• Delivering high quality lessons both in class and on Seesaw.
• Increased parent involvement through regular communication and informative meetings, strengthening the home-school connection.

• Designing, planning and implement a play-based learning curriculum and learning environment.
• Enhancing pupil engagement for learning through innovative, creative and high-quality lessons in accordance with the school's schemes of work and methods of study.
• Providing pastoral care and a stimulating environment to meet all needs.
• Creating a continuous provision-based learning environment for New Entrants/ Y1/2 students, which focuses on the use open ended natural resources.
• Leading Geography, History, Early Years, Early Reading and Phonics and Physical Education within the school.

These roles included:

• Producing curriculum maps and intents, units of planning, and policies;
• monitoring, evaluating and enhancing the quality of teaching, learning and assessment;
• supporting and guiding colleagues, as well as building capacity across the school;
• organising and delivering PD;
• creating action plans; raising the profile of each subject in the school.