Nikita Z

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Institute of Education, UCL - PGCE in Secondary Chemistry (current)

University of East London - BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences (1st Class Hons)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Primary: English, Maths and General Studies

Common Entrance: 11+

GCSE: Maths, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Psychology

A-Level: Psychology, Chemistry, Biology

City of London Academy Islington

Tutoring Year 11 students GCSE science in study support sessions during their timetabled day. Providing and preparing exam questions and other learning resources. Marking and providing feedback. Preparing lessons in lieu of the curriculum being taught by their teachers. Working as a support member of staff in science lessons with other year groups – mainly focused on KS4. Running before and after school intervention lessons in GCSE science for students in Year 10 and 11.

Private Tutor

Tutoring students of various ages year 1-11. Providing and preparing exam questions and other learning resources. Marking and providing feedback. Running drop in sessions for GCSE students – groups of up to 30 students

SKILLS AND INTERESTS

I have a passion and love for art and crafts, especially running my small business that started off from my hobby. I also really do enjoy and have a love for music – I possess a grade 4 merit in musical theatre 

I also speak 2 dialects of Bengali fluently

WORK EXPERIENCE

Completed NCS: The Challenge

GP surgery

Volunteer assistant at Seven Kings Primary School

Work experience at the Royal London Outpatients Hospital

Work experience at the QMUL Centre Of the Cell

Work experience at HSBC

PERSONAL STATEMENT

Science is such a broad subject that always fascinated me from a young age. It was as if there was no end to what I could learn, experience and discover. Biology and chemistry always had me inquisitive and this soon reflected in the paths I chose to take within my own education. I studied biomedical sciences as an undergraduate student where I learned that the two areas of science coexisted. Studying biomedical sciences encapsulated the areas I enjoyed most of both biology and chemistry growing up, allowing me to not only expand my interests beyond what I thought I knew about the way the human body worked, but also the behind the scenes of the functions that happen within that allow us to inevitably live. Being a tutor ensured that I was constantly refreshed on the ever-changing national curriculum and education system. Teaching the students ensured I was kept up to date with the new content and grading criteria, making sure my knowledge was always up to speed. In my first job as a tutor at 17, it really put things into perspectives of what responsibility was. Some of these students were in a position that I was in myself, not very long ago, and it made me understand how impressionable they were and the true importance of the power a teacher held in the life of a young person. I graduated with a First Class in my undergraduate and am currently completing my PGCE at UCL.