Nadia Ali

As a senior teaching assistant I am responsible for supporting the class teacher by working with our lower ability students and ensuring they can access the workload. I am also trained and run extra phonics sessions 4 times per week and a weekly nurture group focusing on children's motor skills. I aid the teacher in developing individualised learning plans for those needing additional support.

As a bartender my duties were demonstrating a knowledge of drinks, managing stock levels efficiently, opening the bar and ensuring garnishes, bar equipment and the venue was ready for service. I was also responsible for cashing up at the end of the night and training new employees.

• Company Overview: Electric Theatre Workshop.
• Creating digital content, including a six episode series which aired weekly, educating young people on the history of Dumfries spanning from 1958 to present day. My role was to devise a weekly news segment for each decade and to present a poetry and drawing competition for primary school students based around the stimulus 'heritage and home'.

• Company Overview: Participatory arts company, Emergency Exit Arts.
• Running a pop-up lantern making workshop with Emergency Exit Arts, a participatory arts company, for Diwali. Utilising biodegradable willow, paper and found objects we provided lights and materials for families to create their own colourful lanterns. This was followed by an organised procession from the museum down to the Thames so our participants could watch their lanterns light up the evening sky.

• Company Overview: Emergency Exit Arts, Greenwich, London.
• To facilitate a weekly group for over 60's in the area of Greenwich with aims to reduce social isolation amongst the elderly. This began with a discussion with our participants on how they would like to change their local area creatively and what creative skills we could harness together to do so. The 8 week program saw us explore music, arts and crafts and gardening while enjoying a cup of tea and getting to know one another. This ended with an exhibition displaying the drawings, poetry and research the group had created based on their upbringing and how the area had changed over the years. I was also able to collaborate with students from Greenwich University to document the experience and create a short documentary and pamphlet showing our progress over the weeks.

• Company Overview: Emergency Exit Arts, Greenwich, London.
• The project was developed to improve the creative well being of young people within the theme of 'My home, my nest' and to support the significance of family values. Working with KS2 students in primary schools across east Greenwich, each school made work in response to the theme and their ideas were digitalised as stop motion animations. The installations were housed and disguised in bird boxes, one peep inside saw their imaginations come to life.

• Company Overview: Emergency Exit Arts, London.
• The Cabinet of Curiosities and Oddities was an interactive installation created to be placed in an array of venues such as primary schools, museums, libraries and community centres. Used as a resource for engaging imaginations and aiding with creative writing in the primary school curriculum, my role was to help participants engage with the cabinet, exploring all its items and using them as a stimulus for writing within their classroom.

• Company Overview: The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London
• As part of my Second Year at university I was given funding to spend a week as an artist in residence at a primary school in Swindon. Working with Year 4 students I held workshops throughout the week based around storytelling and improvisation with the end product being a show created and performed by all 90 of the Year 4 students.

• Company Overview: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London
• Utilising drama in education techniques to create a piece of immersive theatre along the high street in Rochester. Using Dickens as a stimulus the performance educated viewers on life in the 1800's. The piece was received well and was brought back as a touring piece for primary and secondary schools in the Rochester area.

• Company Overview: Electric Theatre Workshop, Dumfries.
• Choreographed and led the 2016 Big Burns Supper carnival with 12 schools in the region and worked with secondary pupils studying art to design and create the costumes for the procession. I was also responsible for listing all our events online, running our box office and ensuring on the distribution of tickets to customers.