My Leadership Journey with BBC Radio Manchester
I want to extend my gratitude to Simone Riley and the team at BBC Radio Manchester for the incredible opportunity to be a guest on your platform. Discussing my leadership journey and the roles...
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Manifesting My Vision Board: Reflections on #RENDLDN2024
A massive thank you to Nadine Bernard and Ethan Bernard for inviting me to represent Aspiring Heads at the #RENDLDN2024 London Racial Equity Networking Event. Last night, I had the incredible opportunity to manifest...
Uniting Against Knife Crime: The Launch of the #SpeakingOutCouldSaveALife Campaign
I am thrilled to share that I was recently featured in a powerful campaign with Unity Radio and the Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) aimed at tackling knife crime. The #SpeakingOutCouldSaveALife campaign is an important...
Breaking Barriers: Empowering Change in Education with Racial Literacy Surveys
In response to the growing demand for structures to address racism and promote racial literacy in educational environments, various schools have sought effective tools to initiate meaningful change. One such tool gaining traction is...
Empowering Black Future Leaders: A Journey of Representation and Inspiration
In 2018, I embarked on a quest to identify 277 out of 21,356 Black headteachers in the UK, driven by a desire for representation and a connection to those paving the way in education...
Breaking Barriers: Stemettes Unveils Whitepaper Addressing Gender Disparities in STEM Education
Great event at the House of Commons for the launch of Stemettes Whitepaper focused on the lack of representation of women in the National GCSE/A-Level STEM Curriculum. #internationalwomensday Read it now- https://stemettes.org/whitepaper/
STEM National Curriculum challenged at the House of Commons to improve diverse representaion
I’m excited to share that I’ve been invited to the launch of the new Whitepaper on the lack of representation of women in the National GCSE/A-Level STEM Curriculum, hosted by Stemmettes at the House...
Cultural Day 2023-2024
I couldn’t be prouder to share our experiences from the 2023-2024 Cultural Day. This annual event has come a long way since its inception in 2021, when our students recognised the need for more...
AHSummit 2023: Celebrating Excellence and Igniting Change
I am thrilled to share some exciting news with you all. I’ve been given the incredible opportunity to serve as a Host at the AHSummit 2023. The AHSummit is not your typical professional development...
With Insight – STEM Black and Global Majority Mentoring 2023
With Insight is an organisation focused on empowering black-heritage students with the confidence, knowledge, and ability to successfully apply to the UK’s leading universities as a gateway to a more prosperous future. Congratulations to...
Stemettes 10th Birthday Roundtable
It was an honour to be involved in @aimafidon @Stemettes 10th birthday London Roundtable among key stakeholders across the sector, focused on EDI in the curriculum ensuring women are rightly represented in STEM.
Mission 44 and the education charity Teach First partner to launch STEM from Black
Black STEM teachers are vital for inspiring the next generation. It was great to connect with Teach First and Mission 44 partnership to address the lack of Black STEM teachers in the UK.
Black History Month 2022 – Celebrating Black Excellence
The theme of this year’s Black History Month is celebrating Black Excellence, led by our very own Kemoy Walker, KS3 lead and CEO of KYSO. This week we had student-led assemblies with various guest...
African Kings – By Ricky Strachan
Ricky Strachan burst into the non-fiction scene with a series of pioneering children’s books covering African History. The first book to be published is African Kings which will be followed by African Queens and...
NEU Lead – Tackling racism within schools
Recent feature within the Summer 2022 NEU Lead magazine. See the full publication
MAT Partnership Network Conference 2022
Half term… Time to reflect, audit and plan for the next one! One of the highlights for me was attending the Multi Academy Trust Partnership Network conference as a guest of John Murphy, CEO...
With Insight Black and Global Majority Mentoring
Oasis Media City students visited the university of manchester to meet the mentors that have been supporting them throughout the academic year. This process was documented by ITV . With Insight is an organisation...
Shoot The Messenger: Be Part of the Change
I am honoured that my essay titled ‘Be part of the change’, focused on breaking the cycle of systematic racism in education is now featured in the newly released blue-ray edition of the British...
Break the Cycle: Decolonising the curriculum with Dwain Brandy
Interview with Dwain Brandy discussing strategies used to decolonise the curriculum at Oasis Community Learning
Break the Cycle – We shall overcome
Looking forward to sharing the progress made towards an anti-racist curriculum at our school at this event. See the event details below
