Yvonne Muldoon

I am currently working as a HLTA and would like to be considered for the exciting opportunity of becoming an unqualified teacher. Although I am not a qualified teacher I have been trusted by my present school to take on a teaching role in order to support the school during a staff transition period. For a full term I job shared the role of the teacher in a Reception Classroom. I was responsible for all the usual teaching responsibilities and the children flourished and progressed during this time. I undertook planning, teaching, assessment and safeguarding responsibilities. During this time, I proved myself to be a capable and committed teaching practitioner.

Throughout my time at Crowcroft Park Primary School, I have established supportive relationships both with parents and staff, who have come to me if they had needed help or guidance. For example, I have supported TA’s, Teaching Students, L.O.s NQTs and ECTs in their first year of teaching at Crowcroft Park. This shows that I am trusted to fulfil this role and have successfully maintained these relationships throughout my time at Crowcroft. I am presently working in close liaison with a family that I am supporting through a difficult time and therefore have needed to establish a supportive and caring relationship whilst also maintaining a professional approach. I have worked in every year group covering PPA and have always found that I am able to form good relationships with children of all ages.

During my time in this role I have discovered I am able to use my time efficiently, I am flexible and extremely hard working. I have a positive attitude and have good and efficient communication skills. My commitment and proactive attitude is often remarked upon by staff members and I am known for being a hardworking and valued member of the team.

At the heart of everything I do, is the welfare and education of the children at Crowcroft Park. I have taken part in rigorous Safe -Guarding training and I understand the importance of this aspect of my work. I also maintain a professional attitude and am always willing to be flexible and accept changes, and any new challenges that are in the best interest of the child.

I attend staff meetings and staff training, where I take on board and implement new training and teaching strategy’s. I am always improving my skills and knowledge and an example of this was the ELKLAN training. My commitment to this training resulted in a distinction which was a great and useful achievement. After any lesson observation, I take on board and act on all feedback in an effort to continually improve my practise and to ensure constant personal development.

When I cover classes, I follow the school’s behaviour policy and rarely find that I have any behaviour issue to deal with. When I do, I am always calm and use reflective language to support learners to consider and change their behaviour.

My lessons are always well organised, planned and resourced and I have always received good feedback from any observations including; Reading, Writing, Maths PSHE and Music lessons. I use the school schemes as well as planning to guide my lessons and reflect on how well they went before planning the next one. I always try to make my lessons engaging and at an appropriate level. If I find that the children are struggling, then I am able to break down the learning into smaller steps.

Please consider me for this role. I look forward to hearing from you.

Yvonne Muldoon

• I enjoy walking and hiking in the countryside. I am a passionate reader and I enjoy the challenge of learning new skills.

ELKLAN CHAMPION with distinction

Leadership-I am responsible for managing and supporting Teaching Assistants across the school. My responsibilities also include timetabling and managing the provision of breakfast club, breaktimes and lunchtime duties across the school. This includes managing both Teaching Assistants and Lunchtime Organisers.

Recently the class I am working with have exceeded expectations in the Phonics screening test. The schools lead for RWI personally thanked me for my dedication and commitment toward their progression.

• RWI trained
• First aid pediatrics training
• Safeguarding training
• Cognitive science and recall training
• Internet Safety training
• WELCOMM
• Attention In Autism training