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Raised on the border of Surrey and Hampshire, I grew up in and around leafy Haslemere, attending Haslemere Heights Preparatory School before then going on to Bedales School in Petersfield for my GCSEs and A-Levels.

After completing my A-Levels in French, Spanish and Physics (with an AS-Level in Design and Technology: Systems and Control), I went to King’s College London to study Spanish with Linguistics. As part of my undergraduate studies I spent a year abroad on the Spanish-language Humanities course at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where I was given the chance to broaden my academic horizons enormously (studying Theory of Law, Art History, Anthropology, Semiotics and Iberian History, to name just a few subject areas) before returning to London to achieve an Upper Second Class honours degree at the end of the academic year 2007/2008.

In September of 2008, I began work as a tutor in London with three placements: Literacy and Numeracy with an 8-year-old SEN learner, Literacy and English with a 13-year-old student from Lithuania and IB MYP Spanish with a brother and sister at Southbank International School. My tutoring work grew as I branched out into new teaching areas, including several years with an online English-language teaching platform, where I worked with a range of students, from high-end corporate learners with an eye on business English, via independent learners looking for self-development, to schools in the private French system, where I delivered year-long courses and bespoke assessments to full French classrooms in the 11-13 years age range.

After my first few years of tutoring, I decided that I would pursue a PGCE in teaching Secondary School Languages at the Institute of Education, London, where I was offered an unconditional place to study after spending an Easter term working at the Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School in Hertfordshire. My time spent at HABS taught me two things: 1) what lesson preparation is really all about (namely, adaptability), and 2) that I really much preferred teaching in a one-on-one environment. I withdrew my acceptance of the place at the Institute of Education and threw myself even further into tutoring, joining Keystone in the summer of 2011.

Since working with Keystone, I have taken up placements in varying subjects both across London and the U.K., as well as teaching opportunities abroad, including a long-running professional relationship with a specialised international primary school in Geneva, with whom I worked for a number of