Interview with Mrs Grey

What was your favourite sport when you were younger?

My favourite sport has always been netball, I played it in year 4 and managed to make the year 6 netball team. I started playing it and I loved it immediately. My other sports were athletics, cricket, swimming and rugby.

How can you help a student who has difficulty learning a specific skill or sport?

Every pupil is different and will learn differently I try to ensure that every pupil understands and help them if they’re struggling I explain the task several times and also use demonstration.

What are your weaknesses as a sport teacher?

With sport comes competition and this is the part I sometimes find hard as a PE teacher. Selecting a team can sometimes be difficult as I know I might be disappointing some players who have not made the team they wanted to play in

What are your strengths as a sport teacher?

My ethos as a PE teacher is to ensure everyone enjoys sport and with this, they find the sport the love the most and might play when they leave school. There is a sport out there for absolutely everyone, you just need to find it. As netball is my favourite sport and the one I teach the most at Westonbirt, I like it when everyone is enjoying themselves and playing in a team

Why were you interested in becoming a sport teacher?

I used to be quite good at 100 metre sprints and was training at Bath university, I then stopped competing and started coaching instead, that’s when I realised I loved teaching!

When did you join Westonbirt?

I joined Westonbirt in 2015, at the time I was Sport coordinator in the prep school and head of senior netball. In between this I went to teach in Singapore for a couple of years, which I thoroughly enjoyed! I returned to Westonbirt in 2019 as a PE teacher in the senior school and head of netball.

By: Jemima B. and Rosie B. Y8