Tess attended Gresham’s School after which she obtained a degree in English literature and sociology and studied to be a primary school teacher in Canterbury. She sung in Christ Church Canterbury C...view moreTess attended Gresham’s School after which she obtained a degree in English literature and sociology and studied to be a primary school teacher in Canterbury. She sung in Christ Church Canterbury Cathedral Choir. Tess went to raise standards for pupils and fellow teachers as lead literacy role in a school for children aged four to eleven after studying critical approaches to children’s literature at Cambridge University.
Having grown up in Islington in North London, Tess has also taught children in London in nonselective inner-city schools. She has taught the full range as a nursery teacher to year six, tutored English GCSE 11+, and English literature and language to adults.
Tess will now move into the world of writing and illustration for children, an audience she knows well.
Tess also expresses interest in psychodynamics and healing therapies for children and believes unconscious emotions, thoughts, and dreams often manifest in the arts, particularly those repressed by control systems.
Tess can play four instruments and enjoys going to church, cooking, designing, pilates, running, poetry, photography, painting, illustrating, and travelling. She is blessed to have loving friends and some loving family. She believes in positivity despite adversity—believing in the empowerment of vulnerable individuals, particularly women, children, and animals.view less