Qualified Primary Teacher · Welsh Tutor · WJEC Health & Social Care Examiner
Siân is a qualified and highly experienced teacher with more than 30 years in education. She supports Primary-aged learners, teaches Welsh to children and adults, and brings WJEC examiner experience to GCSE Health & Social Care tuition.
Siân has worked with learners across a wide range of ages and abilities throughout a career spanning more than 30 years in education. She enjoys adapting her teaching to suit the individual rather than expecting every learner to work in the same way.
Her aim is to make lessons friendly, engaging and supportive while helping learners develop both their skills and their confidence. Clear explanations, questioning, encouragement and praise are central to the way she teaches.
Siân is a fluent Welsh speaker and is confident teaching through both Welsh and English. Alongside Primary tuition, she can support Welsh language learners from childhood through adulthood.
Siân combines extensive Primary teaching experience, bilingual Welsh-language support and specialist WJEC Health & Social Care examining experience.
Extensive support for Primary-aged pupils from Early Years through Key Stage 2. Siân can work across the Primary curriculum, including core Maths and English skills, while tailoring lessons to each child's confidence, pace and learning needs.
Welsh tuition for both children and adults, including complete beginners and learners who want to improve their confidence and fluency. Lessons can be adapted around the learner's current level and goals.
Support for WJEC GCSE Health & Social Care, strengthened by Siân's experience examining the subject for WJEC.
Siân can teach through Welsh or English, making her particularly suitable for learners in Welsh-medium education.
Alongside her broad Primary teaching experience, Siân can provide support in Maths, English and Biology according to the learner's needs and appropriate level.
Siân began her career in Early Years education before moving into Primary schools and progressing through a range of teaching and support roles.
She completed a BA in Early Years and a PGCE, before working as a qualified Primary teacher across different year groups and abilities.
She currently works as a Welsh-medium supply teacher alongside running her own education supply business.
Siân began her education career working with younger children in Early Years.
Extensive experience working directly with individual pupils and adapting learning to their specific needs.
Experience coordinating learning and supporting curriculum delivery within Primary education.
Following her BA and PGCE, Siân taught across different Primary year groups and abilities.
Experience teaching remotely using Microsoft Teams and Hwb, including adapting lessons and resources for online learners.
Working across different schools has strengthened Siân's ability to adapt quickly to different pupils, classrooms and learning environments.
As a fluent Welsh speaker with extensive experience in Welsh-medium education, Siân can support learners at very different stages of their Welsh-language journey.
Siân can support children learning Welsh as well as pupils who attend Welsh-medium schools and want extra help developing their confidence.
Adult learners are also welcome, whether they are starting Welsh for the first time or already have some knowledge and want to become more confident and fluent.
Siân describes her main strengths as her ability to build a positive rapport with learners, her patience and her flexibility.
She is encouraging and supportive while maintaining clear expectations. When a learner finds something difficult, she breaks the learning into manageable steps and tries different approaches until it becomes clearer.
She particularly enjoys helping learners recognise their own progress and grow in confidence.
Create a friendly and supportive environment where the learner feels comfortable asking questions.
Adjust explanations, resources and pace around the individual learner.
Turn difficult skills into smaller, manageable steps that learners can tackle confidently.
Use questioning, praise and encouragement to help learners recognise how far they have come.
Siân has experience examining WJEC GCSE Health & Social Care. This gives her direct familiarity with the assessment process and the standard expected of GCSE learners studying the subject.
Her teaching background also means she can explain material in a clear and supportive way, rather than focusing only on examination technique.
Tell us the learner's age or year group, subject, current level and preferred times and we can help arrange online lessons with Siân.
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