Ruth Stanway Woodings

Hello,  I have two children - both have been partially home educated. I have a particular interest in supporting students with barriers to education, lots of experience with EOTAS, and have passed all my Ipseas (if you know, you'll know).

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.

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!