Rebecca Smith Smith

I trained as a primary school teacher, qualifying in 2021 with a level 7 PGCE from Northumbria University. I took a SCITT approach meaning for the year of my training, I taught from September right the way through to July. This experience gave me a fantastic opportunity to teach year groups from Foundation focusing on SSP (systematic synthetic phonics) to Year 6, focusing on SATS. Whilst I am no longer working as a teacher, my passion for giving children the skill and knowledge to move forward in their learning is something I am very passionate about and keen to continue.

I believe that children learn best when they are interested, engaged and hands on with learning which is why I like to introduce the use of concrete material when teaching. I also believe repetition of knowledge really implants learning into the brain allowing it to become deeply implanted into the long-term memory.

I like to keep lessons relatively short, depending on the year group. I understand children have a shorter attention span and need to keep regular movement to be in the right head space for their learning.

In my teaching, I would like to understand how my pupil prefers to learn so I can tailor the lesson around their preferences whilst instilling the knowledge they need to progress at school. I will always provide a presentation to base the learning on, seen as I offer online lessons but I believe a crucial part of teaching is the explanation offered to pass the knowledge across to the pupil. I use simple terms, that my pupil will understand to allow for a steady progression towards targets and goals.


My areas of knowledge are primary school subjects with a focus on phonics, English including spelling, grammar, punctuation) and maths. However, if there are any other subjects, I can also offer tutoring for this at both KS1 and KS2 level.