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An independent co-educational day school for students with high functioning autism, Asperger's Syndrome, language, communication and social pragmatic difficulties and those associated with specific learning difficulties.
Francesca Fanning
Fri 3rd June 2011
Position:
SENCO
Email:
ffanning@thsl.org.uk
After gaining a Cert in Education from the University of London, I joined Parliament Hill girls’ school in Highgate, as a teacher of both Home Economics and English. After some years in mainstream school, I switched to become a special needs teacher in Hertfordshire, working in a unit for children with emotional and behavioural difficulties.
I then qualified as a teacher for dyslexia obtaining RSA Cert in Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD) before returning to work in Barnet as a hospital teacher of children aged 5 to 16 with short- and long-term medical conditions. After three years I joined one of Hertfordshire’s two secondary SpLD bases, teaching students with specific learning difficulties, training teachers and teaching assistants in SpLD, and advising Hertfordshire schools on dyslexia.
I was born in North London, and have been a school governor in both a primary and a secondary school in Hertfordshire. I’m married with two grown-up children, and enjoy spending time with my family, reading, travel, cookery, and gardening.
