Megan Lough

Megan J. Loughborough Home Address: The Glade, Clarence Drive, Englefield Green, Surrey TW20 OJT E-mail: [email protected] Contact Tel: 07746853109 Profile:

 Self-motivated, reliable, trustworthy, hard working, willingness to always succeed.

 Able to get accustomed to new working environment quickly and have good learning ability.

 I have a great passion for working with children of all ages, hence choosing to study Psychology at university.

 I have a great interest in Art in particular mixed media, deriving from my creative and expressive personality.

 Good communication and understanding. Excellent creation and team working skills

 Lively, sociable and independent with excellent multi-tasking skills. Education: Current (since Sep.07) Leeds University Bsc Psychology First Year Psychology course - 2.1

Sep 1999-2006 – St.Georges College Weybridge 10 GCSE‘s- 5 A*s, 5As A-Levels- Geography A Art

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History of Art B

Personal Achievements:

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Art Scholarship Rowing first VIII Ballet grade 6 Modern Dance grade 4 Captain of house for first five years

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Bronze Duke of Edingborough

Employment:

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Kall Kwik Printing business , Staines. June 08 – July 08 Duties: Dealing with customers on the phone and in person, in office duties such as laminating, hole punching, filing invoices, data entry.

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The Royal Windsor Farm Shop, September 06- June 07 Duties: Coffee shop assistant, either working on coffee station, serving food, wash up, clearing tables.

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Print Week, London May – June 2004 Duties: Editing assistant, filing photograph clips. (Accepted as an instructor for the Runneymede Child Play Scheme, due to circumstances could not obtain this position)

Other Interests Travelling, drama, art, music, socialising, dance, swimming, outdoor activities, eg. Abseiling, archery etc. References:

Kall Kwik: Miss Phillippa Fewins Sales Director Tel number: 07711995964

(If additional references are required they can be provided)

Covering letter - teaching assistant My love of children was founded when I started to babysit throughout my GCSE’s. This was the main reason why I chose to study psychology at university because within the Psychology degree not only do I study social interaction and biological understandings of people, but a whole module is directed around developmental

psychology. This governs how children develop from as young as 3 months to adolescence. I have a very caring and fun loving personality, which I think is perfect if one wants to work with children. I learn quickly and interact with others very easily, building personal and formal relationships with both adults – other teachers, and children – the students. My biggest passion is art and creative subjects, shown through my a-levels, my art scholarship and history of art, but I also have scientific interests shown from studying triple science at GCSE level and geography for a-level. These interests will aid my assistance in teaching, especially my imaginative and creative personality. All together, I think I am a well-rounded student who has a lot to offer a school as an assistant teacher. My interest in child development and how they socially interact inspired me to prepare lesson plans and teach at ‘The holy family’ primary school once a week for a year. This instigated further work with children. Last summer I applied for an assistant role in Runneymede’s child play scheme. Due to there not being enough children taking part in the scheme I could not actually gain this position, but after preparing a day’s activities for the children to explain in my interview, (I even made a hand made kite) I was awarded an instructor role, whereby I would have been given ten to twelve children to look after and co-ordinate in summer activities. The disappointment of not being able to obtain this summer experience, pushed me further to apply for being a teaching assistant. From studying psychology, it has given me such insight to actually putting these skills to physical practice, and from knowing I want to work with children when I am older, I can not think of anything more appropriate than being a teaching assistant. My passion for children and understanding their learning processes is something that has always fascinated me, and I believe my aspirations, natural interest in children, enthusiasm and personal qualities s demonstrated through my extra curricular activities are attributes that a school would welcome in a teaching assistant.

Megan J Loughborough