Emma Danielle Holmes

• Successfully led and managed both Nursery (3 form) and Reception (5 form). My current position is Head of Nursery and EAL Lead.
• Successfully led the EYFS department and the school through the Early Years reforms in 2021
• Manage a large team with innovation and drive, cultivating a vibrant, energetic and affirming experience for children and staff.
• Oversee the EYFS alongside ESLT, in which I successfully, co-lead a team of 20 staff members and 240 pupils
• As EAL lead, I have significantly improved the provision across the whole school for children who have a first language other than English. This was enabled by a detailed and focused action plan. Within a year, the development I have driven, inspired and implemented was recognised with a 'Silver' accreditation from the EAL Academy in October 2023. More importantly, the voice of children and families gave evidence to the positive impact of the developments.
• Led and facilitated Beaver Road becoming a Communication Friendly Setting through 2022 - present.
• Currently leading the school through the Trauma Informed setting accreditation and the School of Sanctuary Award after recommendation to Manchester LA, due to my work in our setting and the community
• Within the past year alongside successfully leading my team and ensuring the children experience the best provision and experience possible, I have achieved several qualifications and awards:

- Supporting the learning of pupils with English as an
additional language (EAL) in multicultural settings - EAL Academy and the University of Greenwich Level 5 Qualification

- NPQSL with Best Practice - 75% complete. Due to complete April 2024

- Mental Health Champion, Place2Be

- ELKLAN Speech and Language Support 3-5 year olds

• Various work as a professional vocalist. P
• Performed in venues such The Mermaid Theatre London, RNCM, The Lowry, Preston Guildhall and The Palace, Manchester.
• Wide experience as a performer, worked alongside artists such as Ed Sheeran, Lauren Laverne and Patrick Stewart.

Working on a consultancy basis for Earth Warriors Global, to fulfil a collaboration project with Their World (https://theirworld.org/). I designed and facilitated workshops to drive one of Theirworld's strategic goals in supporting project partners to integrate Climate Awareness in their projects' activities. The workshops were co-created with three individual project partners; BRAC International in Tanzania, Hatua Network in Kenya and Chance for Childhood in Ghana. The aim of the workshops was be to equip teachers to understand children and young people's feelings and knowledge on climate change, give them a technical introduction to the topic, discuss solutions that can be implemented at an individual and community level and help them design and deliver one Climate Awareness activity to their chosen audience. Each workshop was co-designed with each individual organisation, to ensure that the content and goal was aligned with the specific context, mission and aims of each individual organisation. Ages of students the organisations were focusing this work towards varied (BRAC, 13 - 20 year old students, Hatua, 18 year old students and Chance for Childhood, 3 - 8 year old students). This informed the initial research, content and delivery. The Training of Trainers workshops, were delivered to 26 leaders, who then disseminated the training to teams and integrated it into their curriculum. Reaching and impacting circa 1500 students, with rippling impact in their immediate communities.
“I really like the honest yet hopeful approach Earth Warriors takes to teaching about climate change. I particularly like the way the program encourages youth to work as a group and also advocate for change within their schools”. Gabrielle Fondiller, Director of Hatua Network.
“The training has enabled me to understand and know the impacts of the climate crisis. It has empowered me with knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to act as [an] agent of change”. James Ndago Hatua Network

Guest Speaker at the Early Education Centenary Festival. Delivering a talk on 'The Power of Storytelling for Children in the Early Years'.

• One of a core team of ten, involved in all aspects of establishing a parkrun in Alexandra Park, Moss Side, Manchester.

• Began as a fellow in the summer of 2016 with a team of 25 international teachers.
• Developed a specific training programme, and adapted and delivered training to Guyanese teachers in both Georgetown and to Amerindian communities in the jungle, through collaboration, mentoring and coaching. This community is one of the most remote communities in the world.
• Asked to consider returning as a team leader, I seized this opportunity. I progressed to manage an already established project in Nyamasheke, Rwanda in 2017 and 2018.
• Following on from this, I co-designed and spearheaded a new project in the Rwamagana district of Rwanda successfully, in 2019.

• Consistent in achieving accelerated progress for all pupils.
  • Cultivated strong and effective parental engagement.
  Set up a class email, the first within school. This has resulted in strengthening of relationship between school and parents but also enriched and supported children's learning and allowed us to celebrate and explore the diversity within our class. Parent workshops and inviting parents in as assistants has built trust and rapport and significantly improved engagement.
  Whole School:
  • Leading our schools to become a UNICEF Rights Respecting School.
  Training and engaging the school and wider community in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
  • Developing and implementing initiatives to make a sustainable difference through my role as Healthy School lead.
  • Established strong links with local library and Manchester Literature Festival.
  • Inviting in industry professionals to lead inspiring workshops.
  Examples include Jake Tyler from BBC's ‘Mind Over Marathon', the children's poet laureate of Wales Martin Daws, and Peter Nevland a US slam poet champion from Austin, Texas. I have also brought in theatre companies, arranged for children to take part in programmes with the BBC and events at Sportscity.

• Managed and grew the Performing Arts School for 3 - 18 year olds.
• Tutoring in Dance, Singing and Drama . Tutoring pupils towards LAMDA examinations and LCM examinations. Directing, choreographing and devising theatre.
• Recruiting and leading a successful team.
• Leading Creative arts and drama projects in partnership with local primary schools and children's centres.
• Teaching and leading on various projects and events.

• Part of a small team of professionals including head teachers, teachers, CofE Director of Education and the Dean of Manchester.
• Trained and Coached teachers in Lahore, Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Murree.

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• Started and managed an initiative to support and provide aid to the Jungle Camp in Calais.
• In 2015, I was infuriated by what was unfolding and had a fervent desire to do something. I was hearing contrasting information through the media to those working on the ground and I wanted to go and find out the truth for myself, give people a voice.
• Asked for donations of items needed through social media. This idea quickly evolved into a movement, and thankfully some incredible people partnered with me to fulfil what I had set out to do.
• We ended up receiving and collecting enough items to fill a large community hall, these items were sorted and categorised by wonderful volunteers.
• I made two trips to Calais, driving a large van myself after setting up relationships with the organisations working on the ground in Calais and Dunkirk.
• I took items to their newly acquired warehouse where, alongside a large team of volunteers from all over the world we sorted items ready to distribute.
• Went on an organised distribution into the heart of ‘The Jungle'.
• Organised for International Aid to come and collect tons of donations over to the Greek and Macedonia border camps, where the need at the time was greatest.
• Thanks to many people's large and generous hearts, I also raised over £3000 some of this went to the organisation working tirelessly in Calais but most went to a charity called Humanitas (https://www.humanitascharity.org/) who I had previously worked for in Romania. Humanitas were taking doctors to the most severe and devastating circumstances and saving lives.

• Teaching assistant in Nursery to year 2.