Ruth Stanway Woodings

Course Coordinator and Pastoral Lead for Education Without (P4HE) and GIFT Courses, Parent of Curious Children.

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Hello,  I mutter incantations to get our websites and booking systems to work. I have a particular interest in supporting students with additional needs.

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I have two children - both have been partially home educated.

One now  has an EOTAS package  (Education Other Than At School) funded by  PB (Personal Budget) via their EHCP (Education, Health and Care Plan), and the other is at university.

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I didn't have a great time at school - I was always in trouble for asking questions or staring out of the window. The headmaster wrote in my leaver's report that I had "a cavalier attitude." Fortunately I was able to bumble through until university, when someone (a properly bearded professor) sat me down and explained that some people have brains that work a bit differently - sometimes faster, often taking a different route to a conclusion, able to link ideas that other people might not expect.

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I've worked in theatre,  corporate strategy, business intelligence, with dementia patients, on international conferences, for a famous newspaper, in the energy sector, as a lobbyist in a Whitehall office, for a giant PR firm, for a tiny charity....and I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up!