Kingfishers Class – The Bawburgh School

Hello and welcome to the Kingfishers!

We are the year two class and with Miss Ellis as class teacher and Mrs McGregor as the teaching assistant.

We are super happy to start the term with some familiar faces from last year and some new faces moving across from Flamingos. It already feels like an awesome team!

We are looking forward to the year ahead with some brilliant topics. They include:

History: Neil Armstrong, the first flight, travel and transport through the ages.

Geography: Locational knowledge of countries and continents, the Earth from space, the poles and the equator, mountains.

Science: Everyday materials, plants and animals, habitats and micro-habitats

Let's get started!

Miss Ellis & Mrs McGregor

Miss Ellis

My name is Miss Ellis and I’m delighted to be the newest member of the teaching team at The Bawburgh School. I recently completed my teacher training at Bawburgh and really enjoyed it as a place to learn as well as a place to teach.

My journey towards teaching has been a winding path. After graduating from Liverpool University, I worked in marketing and business development, getting to travel for work and visiting some amazing places.

I decided to take some time out to travel properly and spent a while in South America. I got the travel bug though and went back home via France to indulge in my hobbies of skiing and snowboarding. I often spent the summers working in different areas of France but always ending up back in the mountains. I eventually came back from France fifteen years later with a love of cheese, wine and a pretty good French accent!

Having run a restaurant with my husband in France, I am still a keen foodie but more likely to be found down at the allotment growing my own fruit and veg rather than spending hours in the kitchen.

My desire to change career and start teaching was one of the reasons we moved back to the UK. Having two young children was a real motivator to move into education and supporting them through primary school has helped me to see school life from a child’s perspective.

I am very happy to be settled in Norfolk which is where I grew up and I am excited to be back in the classroom with the Kingfishers this year. Their enthusiasm is infectious! I can’t pick a favourite subject because I genuinely love all areas of the curriculum but at a push I’d pick English because I love books so much or French because it’s great fun to speak another language.