About Charlotte

Qualifications & professional development

  • Qualified Primary School Teacher

  • Degree in Primary Education — English specialism

  • 8+ years' primary classroom experience

  • Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 experience

  • Extensive experience supporting SEND within mainstream education

  • NPQ in Behaviour and Culture (completing)

  • Enhanced DBS

  • Autism Awareness

  • Paediatric First Aid

I am a qualified primary school teacher with over eight years' classroom experience across Key Stages 1 and 2, and the founder of Wildflower Education.

Throughout my teaching career, some of the children I've most enjoyed working with have been those who needed me to think differently - children with SEND, children experiencing anxiety or difficulties with behaviour and emotional regulation, and children who simply didn't thrive when expected to learn in the same way as everyone else.

I've seen how much can change when a child feels understood, when expectations are adapted appropriately and when learning begins with their strengths rather than focusing on what they find difficult.

Those experiences are a big part of why I created Wildflower Education.

My experience

I have a degree in Primary Education with an English specialism and have taught children across the primary age range.

Alongside my classroom teaching, I've held responsibility for Art, Design & Technology and Music, which has strongly influenced the way I approach education. I love finding creative and practical ways into learning and using children's interests to make the curriculum feel relevant.

I have extensive experience supporting children with SEND within mainstream primary schools, adapting teaching, resources, expectations and the learning environment to help individual children access education successfully.

I am also completing an NPQ in Behaviour and Culture, developing my understanding of behaviour, relationships and creating environments in which children can feel safe, supported and ready to learn.

The teacher I try to be

For me, the relationship comes first.

If a child has experienced anxiety, struggled at school or begun to believe that they are "bad at learning", simply presenting them with another worksheet is unlikely to change how they feel.

I want children to know that I'm interested in them - what they enjoy, what makes them laugh, what they're brilliant at, what they find difficult and what helps them feel comfortable.

From there, we can build learning together.

I'm calm, patient and flexible in my approach, but I also believe in having high expectations. Personalised education isn't about expecting less from a child. It's about finding the conditions in which they can achieve more.

Why I created Wildflower Education

During my years in mainstream education, I saw how difficult school can become for some children.

A busy classroom can be overwhelming. Anxiety can make simply arriving at school feel enormous. Additional needs can make traditional teaching approaches difficult to access. And after repeated difficult experiences, some children begin to lose confidence not only in school, but in themselves as learners.

I created Wildflower Education because I wanted the freedom to ask a different question:

Instead of asking how we make the child fit the education, what happens if we build the education around the child?

One-to-one provision gives me the time to listen, adapt and follow a child's curiosity in a way that isn't always possible in a classroom of 30 children.

That might mean practising maths while baking, writing after a trip to the theatre, exploring science outdoors, following a child's special interest across several curriculum subjects, or simply spending time rebuilding enough trust for learning to feel possible again.

That's the kind of education I want Wildflower to provide.