I’ve been a primary school teacher for over 20 years, I love this profession deeply, but I have felt the weight of it. I have been tired, disillusioned and increasingly concerned about the direction education is being pushed.
It matters to say this clearly:
In the 2023–24 academic year, around 40,800 full-time equivalent teachers left state-funded schools in England, representing almost 9% of the workforce. The vast majority did not move roles within education. They left the profession altogether.
I could have been one of them. As the joy and optimism I once carried into the classroom slowly faded, I began questioning everything. The pressure to perform, to meet demands and to carry the emotional load of everyone around me became overwhelming. And yet, I didn’t want to leave.
I wanted to make it better. I wanted to teach, nurture, and let children know they were seen, heard, valued and championed always.
In 2020, following a heartbreaking separation and in the midst of the COVID pandemic, I stepped outside my comfort zone and began training as a coach.
I had no idea this decision would lead me back to teaching with renewed clarity and purpose.
What struck me most was this:
Everything I was learning had a place in education.
Why weren’t we teaching teachers to use a coaching approach in classrooms?
Why weren’t we equipping staff with tools to support emotional regulation, not just behaviour management?
Awareness around neuroscience, wellbeing and mindset is growing, and that matters. But awareness alone is not enough.
What we are still failing to do is teach children, from the earliest years, that:
Schools are not large corporations with unlimited resources. Many are doing extraordinary work under extraordinary pressure.
They do not need another initiative.
They need practical, sustainable support that fits real school life.
So I chose to step into that gap.
I believe that if we teach children to understand themselves and how their brains work, we create generations who:
This is why I do this work.
To protect the heart of education. To support the people inside it,
and to help schools become places where learning and wellbeing are not competing priorities, but inseparable parts of a school’s core principles.
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