Thomas Byford Email & Phone Number

Wickford, Essex, United Kingdom

I have completed a two year paid teacher training course in association with Buckinghamshire University and Premier Pathways as well as my NQT year at Beauchamp's high school as a full time PE teacher. I am now Head of Boys PE at Beauchamps High School and look to continue to inspire students to work hard and be proud of their results as a result. Extra-curricular success is a big motivation for me and I aspire to build on the county and national success I’ve achieved here at Beauchamps so far. I have also taken on a new role at KS5 as Head of Public Services. This course is an incredibly interesting one with many practical aspects to it that are challenging and very self rewarding for both myself and my students.

At the start of 2018 I took on the role of being a Coach for U15 Essex Schools Football Team. In this role I was responsible for holding trials for all the best footballers in the County and picking a squad full of the most talented students.Essex is renown for its footballing prowess and Essex Schools Football has been part of many professional footballers journey to the top such as David Beckham, Ryan Sessegnon and Ainsley Maitland -Niles to name just a few. I’ve always wanted to challenge myself and coach the best players possible and be part of their development. In my first year in the role I’ve managed to identify some talents that weren’t in the squad in previous years and help develop the teams style of play in particular their pressing tactics. The squad assembled is exceptionally talented and as a result I managed to guide them to their first silverware as as a team as they won both their Regional league and Cup competitions.I look forward to working with the very best footballers in the County in future years and continuing to improve their game to help them reach their aspirations within football.

I work for a company called Activate Camps, which runs various sport camps around the UK. I specify in coaching the Andrew Flintoff Cricket Academy camps. I coach up to 30+ kids putting on various cricket sessions on throughout a week with the aim being to develop the kids as cricketers and hopefully improve their abilities in the process.

St Lucia

Since my ventures in America I’ve always wanted to test my educating skills abroad again but this time I wanted to explore a more challenging environment, one that isn’t privileged with facilities and kids that are eager to participate. I, therefore, took it upon myself to save up some money in my first training year so I could pay to fly out to the Caribbean and volunteer to a coaching programme for a month. This was a real eye-opening experience for me as I coached various sports surrounded by complete poverty. The variety of needs of the children was like nothing I had ever experienced as the summer camp attracted a range of abilities, social classes and learning difficulties varying from dyslexia to autism. This was a challenge for me as I hadn’t catered for learning difficulties before this experience and the other children due to their lack of education didn’t understand these children’s actions. It was here I learnt how influential differentiation is to learning as I had to try and cater for the differing needs of the children with as little equipment as two flat footballs and some wooden sticks for goals. However, throughout my experience, I managed to put on many successful sessions which lead me to be the head coach in my final weeks. Resultantly, this experience has equipped me with an extensive set of differentiation techniques, an improved knowledge of how to teach children with learning difficulties and a very good tan!

I work at various primary schools in the Brentwood/Billericay area putting on PE lessons for different schools. I work with a range of ages from infants to year 6's and teach a wide variety of sports in my lessons such as gymnastics, dodgeball, netball, football and cross country. This has really helped me to further my educating skills in sports that I haven't had much experience in and has helped me become a more well-rounded PE teacher.

Loughborough University

I am responsible for representing my course Sports Science & Management and assisting the president in Staff meetings where we discuss student feedback we have gathered and various ways in which the course can improve.

I have the responsibility of taking groups of aspiring students and their parents around the Loughborough University Campus. In doing so I have to sell the university and its qualities to the students and answer many questions from parents.

Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, Usa

The past summer I worked in a Summer Camp in America, this was a challenging environment as I had to balance my responsibilities of being a counsellor and a football coach. Being a counsellor I had a group of 6 kids whom I was responsible for throughout the day, as well as being a football coach putting on sessions for a wide range of ages and skill levels continuously having to adapt on the spot to the changing needs of the group. Working at the summer camp also put me in some situations out of my comfort zones, this brought out my creativity and there was numerous times were we had to organise evening activities for the kids on the spot and because of my leadership, energy and enthusiasm I was able to put on some fun activities for the kids which in turn lead to some of these games being played throughout the summer. I built a real strong relationship with my Bunk I was responsible for throughout the summer and built a great rapport and empathy with them. I believe this was a great insight to what it’s like to be a teacher at the frontline of these kids development and resultantly have never felt such a strong sense of self worth at the end of the summer, when I witnessed how much of an influence I had on them all.

Bachelor Of Sport Science, Sports Science With Management, 2:1

Activities and Societies: Student Representatives Committee Cayley Hall Football team (player & coach) Student Open Day Staff I coached my.

A Levels, Psychology, Geography And Physical Education, A, A, A