Prior to founding FLS, Julie was a French teacher in a secondary school for ten years. She led a thriving languages department, successfully training many language teachers to Qualified Teacher Status, and was a Specialist Leader of Education, presenting at national conferences and advising other schools in how to motivate primary and secondary pupils to love language learning.
In 2014 she established herself as an Early Years Practitioner, running her own childcare business called Petites Etoiles. delivering outstanding childcare whilst having fun learning French through games, songs and stories. She is excited to bring languages to life at FLS, learning French through vocabulary building games, role plays, stories and songs.
Julie knows how important it is to keep children motivated through active learning, so incorporates a lot of movement into lessons, and whilst building their vocabulary and developing their listening, speaking and writing skills, children develop their motor skills, self confidence, and working memory. Most important of all, they leave having had fun!