Our Team
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Emily Stallard
Hub Lead
Emily Stallard
Hub Lead
Languages: French, Italian and KS3 German
Current role: Languages Hub Lead, Operational and Strategic Lead for Tudor Grange Teaching School Hub and Teacher of French
Experience: Emily started her career as a SCITT trainee at Tudor Grange Academy Solihull and enjoyed working at Alcester Academy before returning to Tudor Grange in 2015. Emily has been fortunate to enjoy a variety of roles and responsibilities. Initially, this was leading French on a subject level and rooted in curriculum, but soon this expanded to CPD roles, including coaching and leading aspects of whole-school CPD. Emily became passionate about CPD on a wider level and was successfully appointed as Early Career Framework lead for the Teaching School Hub in 2021. Emily has since developed this further and now works with early career teachers on a wider level across parts of the West Midlands, including supporting them with all needs and requirements on a statutory level as well as supporting their progress towards meeting standards and enhancing their CPD opportunities. Emily is really excited to use her experience in the ‘Hub World’ to support the Languages Hub, but is really pleased to be able to work with such a brilliant team to develop love of language learning and success in MFL.
Georgina Jackson
Hub Lead
Georgina Jackson
Hub Lead
Languages: German, Spanish and French
Current role: Curriculum Leader for MFL; Trust Assessment and Disciplined Innovation Lead for MFL
Experience: Georgina started her professional career at Tudor Grange Academy Solihull as an NQT and has been involved in a variety of successful language-based projects and roles. Initially, this included leading on extracurricular provision across the department, but her role and remit became increasingly centered on driving departmental improvement both within TGAS and across the Tudor Grange Academies Trust. Appointed as Curriculum Leader for MFL in 2018, Georgina has worked tirelessly to promote the status of languages and to support colleagues across the Trust in doing the same. Georgina is a passionate advocate of research-informed practice and ensures she leads by example with her approaches to teaching and learning with her own classes. Skilled at departmental support, monitoring and evaluation, her attention to detail is informed by her considerate approach to developing those around her and her proficient use of data to ensure the student experience, as well as outcomes, are at the forefront of everything that she and colleagues do. She is looking forward to learning more about your journey of development, hearing your goals and helping you to achieve them.
Esther Woodburn
Specialist Teacher
Esther Woodburn
Specialist Teacher
Languages: Spanish and Italian
Current role: Teacher of MFL (Spanish) and SCITT Lead Mentor for MFL
Experience: Esther started her career at Arthur Terry School and Sixth Form (now part of the Trent and Tame Language Hub) in 2018 as Teacher of Spanish progressing to SCITT Mentor with the John Taylor Teaching School and Acting Second in Department. During this time, Esther created online resources for Oak National Academy in lockdown in conjunction with Rachel Hawkes. Esther joined Tudor Grange Academy Solihull in 2022 as Teacher of Spanish, progressing to Lead Mentor via Teach First and the Tudor Grange Teaching School Hub. Esther has also contributed to the interview process for Research School status