Augusta Steele

Role

Augusta Steele is a senior lecturer and the course leader for the PGCE Primary education course within Nottingham Institute of Education. She is passionate about the teaching of English and the power of reading beyond the classroom and the joy of bringing creativity to the curriculum and this is reflected in several areas that she is involved in teaching. She has valued the opportunities to share this expertise with undergraduate and postgraduate students at Nottingham Trent University NTU) where she also leads on Forest School education.

Career overview

Augusta joined NTU in 2007 after teaching for 15 years within inner city primary schools in Nottingham where she gained her Advanced Skills status for creativity. Here, she was seconded to work with Arts Council of England through the work of Creative Partnerships and took part in a summer school ‘Project Zero’ at the University of Harvard, Cambridge Massachusetts.

She has a passion for networking with outside providers which offered many enrichment opportunities from being involved in working with Leading Partners in Literacy, QCA, National Strategies, DfE and alongside Early Years consultants.

She became a senior lecturer at NTU working across the UG and Postgraduate routes into teaching. After leaving NTU in 2015 she became the Deputy Head of the British School of Milan leading on curriculum developments and teaching across the primary range. She has now returned to NTU and has taken up the position of course leader on the PGCE Primary route into teaching.

External activity

Fellow of the Higher Education Institute
Member of The United Kingdom Literacy Association
Trustee within school part of Nottingham Schools Trust