My journey as a learner and teacher has made it my mission to help give children the tools to develop their self belief to help realise their potential. As a primary school teacher with over five years’ of classroom experience, I have made the growth mindset a foundational tool in my teaching practice.

When I was a child and young adult in school , I had a predominantly fixed mindset when it came to learning, and I didn’t have the tools to be able to recognise it. I used to see ability as being derived from ‘natural’ talent and didn’t fully understand the process of practice and learning from mistakes. When it came to setbacks, I was especially negative, not seeing them as opportunities to learn from and would judge myself harshly.

The shift from a fixed to a growth mindset began at university, gaining a first class degree in philosophy and politics and gradually opening my horizons to learn a range of disciplines. A continual quest for knowledge and the learning of new skills like speaking foreign languages and playing music instruments has continued since then with growth mindset thinking at the foundation.