Physics, Sciences, Maths, Common Entrance
A First-Class Imperial Mechanical Engineering graduate turned qualified science teacher and outdoor instructor, Nicola puts each student at the centre and connects science to the world around them.
Nicola completed her sixth form at Westminster School, where she was a School Prefect and Captain of the girls’ boat club, after achieving 10 A*s at GCSE at St Edward’s School, Oxford. She earned a First-Class MEng in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London and later qualified as a science teacher with a Physics specialism through a PGCE at the University of Leeds.
Nicola worked as a Sustainability Engineer in construction and as a Development Engineer at a start-up before moving into education in 2018, working in outdoor education and then qualifying as a teacher. She has taught students aged 10 to 18 in the classroom, one-to-one and outdoors, including extra support for struggling or under-achieving GCSE and A-level students. Physics is her specialism, but she enjoys teaching all three sciences and maths and the links between them.
Nicola aims to inspire and empower students and help them take pride in their achievements. She builds on each learner’s strengths and style, and believes real understanding is key to long-term progress, using patience, practice and science’s place in the world to bring it about.
