1. Philippa Gordon Employment History (updated August, 2016)
Dates
From/To
Name & nature
of
business/school
Job title and description of duties &
responsibilities
Reason for Leaving
01.06.15 -
date
Elmswell
Primary School
Year 3 and 4 mixed class 0.5 + the designing
supervision and teaching of Literacy and
Numeracy programme for SEN pupils in KS2
(Persevere and Conquer) 0.3.
Fixed term contract
until August 30,
2016.
01.05.14 –
31.05.15
4MySchools
Teaching
Agency
Fixed short term contracts with schools
around Suffolk area including Bures
Primary and Waldringfield Primary Schools.
Completion of short
term contracts
01.09.13 –
30.04.14
Sidegate
Primary School,
Ipswich
Class teacher (Yr 3) Full time. Teaching all
subjects; lesson planning, marking;
assessing; report writing; liaising with
parents; working with Teaching Assistant.
Coordinated and taught French to 3 year 4
classes.
School undergoing
conversion to
Academy status.
01.01.13 –
31.08.13
Primary
Academy,
Felixstowe.
Class teacher (Yr 3) Full time. Teaching all
subjects; lesson planning, marking;
assessing; report writing; liaising with
parents; working with Teaching Assistant.
End of short term
contract.
01.09.12 –
31.12.12
Supply teaching
– West Suffolk
area.
Class teaching year 2 – year 6. Teaching all
primary school subjects and marking.
Offered long term
post at Langer
Primary Academy,
following supply
work.
01.04.12 –
31.08.12
West Row
Primary School
Mildenhall,
Suffolk
Class teacher (Yr 3) Full time. Teaching all
subjects; lesson planning, marking;
assessing; report writing; liaising with
parents; working with Teaching Assistant.
Coordinated PE.
End of short term
contract.
04.01.12
30.03.12
Supply teaching
through Suffolk
LA
Various primary school teaching posts
including Year 1 – Year 6. Part-time.
Started short term
contract at West Row
Primary School
31.10.11
16.12.11
Stanton
Primary,
Bury St
Edmunds
Long term (0.8) supply teacher Full time
Teacher. Responsibility for teaching a year
4 class; preparing and planning lessons and
marking work; attending staff meetings and
discussing issues relating to learning and
pastoral care of individual children.
Temporary contract
as a supply teacher
to cover for
maternity leave,
came to an end

2. 01.09.09
31.08.11
Clare Middle
School, Clare,
Sudbury.
Year 6 form tutor - English, French,
Humanities, PSHE; Years 5 – 8 - French.
Classroomteaching; writing reports,
preparing lessons and resources including
creating and delivering PowerPoint
presentations, ongoing use of Microsoft
programmes and internet for accessing
information; marking; liaising with other
members of staff in connection with
curriculum delivery and pupil assessment;
written and verbal communication with
parents on both a face to face basis and
over the telephone.
Middle school
closure as part of the
SOR process. All staff
made redundant.
01.07.08
30.08.09
Self employed Teaching private music lessons (flute,
piano, recorder, theory of music) and
tutoring children with SpLD (Dyslexia).
Completed
commitments to
music examstudents
& took up post as
French specialist at
Clare Middle School.
01.09.07
30.06.08
Christ Church
Canterbury
University, Kent
PGCE (PMFL) Full time student. Primary
teacher training with French specialism.
Continued work as music and SpLD tutor
part-time.
Completed and
passed course.
(Family separation)
01.09.03
16.07.07
St Louis Middle
School, Bury St
Edmunds and
privately.
Completed SpLD (2 yr Hornsby course)
distance learning training. Tutoring pupils
with Specific Learning Difficulties (Dyslexia)
on a one to one basis and in small groups.
Started a primary
teacher training
course in Canterbury.
01.09.01
16.07.03
Ixworth Middle
School/Cherry
Trees
Montessiori
Schoo/Wells
Hall Primary
School/Great
Cornard Middle
School
Learning Support Assistant Supporting
children with learning difficulties or on the
Autistic spectrum within the classroom;
preparing and delivering focused lessons
adapted for each individual child's needs;
assessing pupils and writing up reports;
liaising with teachers and parents.
Started SpLD
(dyslexia) diploma
distance learning
programme to
include practical
work at St Louis
Middle School
01.09.1997
31.06.01
Antwerpen
talen Academie
and De Wingerd
Rudolph Steiner
School
Teacher of English as a foreign language
Teaching English in Belgian. Flemish
speaking school; preparing and delivering
lessons; recording progress; liaising with
staff and providing verbal feedback to staff
Returned to England
with my husband for
him to take up new
post.

3. and parents.
01.09.1991
14.07.1997
Self employed Music teacher: one to one Instrumental
teaching; piano/flute/recorder/theory
Left with my husband
for him to take up
new post in Belgium.
01.06.85
30.08.1991
Self employed Anti-natal instructor (eves)
Home maker
USA (3.5 yrs);Munich
(9 mnths) Frankfurt
(2.4 yrs)
09.09.83
31.05.85 Philadelphia
College of
Performing
Arts/Legal firms
in Philadelphia
PA Contract work - organizing and
preparing college instrumental players for
concerts and private gatherings around
Philadelphia/preparing legal documents;
writing up dictated reports; recording
information; writing letters; telephone
reception work.
Began a family and
stopped working
outside the home.
01.09.82 Phila secretarial
agency
Merion local
Newspaper
Various secretarial posts in Philadelphia.
Music critic – wrote articles local paper
(Voluntary)
Started full time
perm position at
Philadelphia College
of Performing Arts.
01.09.81
30.07.82
Spastics Society
(Cerebral Palsy)
Secretary To write up social reporter
dictated notes after visiting clients; prepare
diary and write letters.
Moved to USA with
husband's new post.
References:
Mrs Jane Ash (Headteacher)
Elmswell Primary School
Elmswell
Suffolk
IP30 9UE
ht@elmswell.suffolk.sch.uk
Tel. 01359 240261
Mr Danny Moody (Head of Key Stage)
Elmswell Primary School
Elmswell
IP30 9UE
dannymoodie@hotmail.co.uk