Mrs Melanie Barker CGeog (Teacher)

Biography

Occupation: Assistant Headteacher Employer: Highfields School Matlock Memo: BARKER, Melanie Melanie is Assistant Headteacher at Highfields School in Matlock, where she was originally appointed as Head of Geography. She has a BA (Hons) in Geography from the University of Sussex and a Geography PGCE from the University of Oxford. Throughout her career Melanie has attended numerous geography based CPD events, run workshops for organisations such as the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, Oxfordshire Heads of Geography Conference and the European Environmental Network, developed a residential field study programme based on Purbeck, worked with the TDA, been a mentor to student teachers and was also awarded a fellowship to Sri Lanka to work on a project studying monkeys by Earthwatch.