Alexandra graduated with a degree in Zoology from Durham University in 1999. Having spent three years in pharmaceutical marketing in London and Barcelona, she completed her PGCE at Oxford University in 2004. After two years teaching science in London she moved to Bristol where she jointly heads the science faculty at Castle School, a large successful comprehensive school in Thornbury, South Gloucestershire and teaches Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Applied Science at GCSE and Biology at A level. |
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