Richard Howland
Teacher - Science/Biology
After graduating from the University of Essex with a BSc Honours degree in Marine and Freshwater Biology, I moved north to Nottingham where I studied my postgraduate PGCE at Nottingham Trent University and began my post at Kesteven and Grantham Girls School the following year. Being a grammar school, it presented me with a unique set of challenges, allowing me to boost the skills of low achieving science students, but also focus a good deal on challenging those who were particularly able.
I have been responsible for an outreach program during the last three years, in which gifted and talented students aged 11 years from local primary schools were selected to be taught by myself in a secondary environment in order to stretch and challenge them.
I have also been responsible for specialist status science days and have provided workshops for teachers around the county to demonstrate stimulating and engaging experiments for use science lessons.
Outside of school I enjoy a number of hobbies including American football, tennis, football and scuba diving, which I began as part of my undergraduate degree. I have been fortunate enough to spend a good deal of time diving in the Mediterranean and hope to continue this whilst in America.