Before the Classroom- Emma P+ Kristy T

As the brand-new Head of Maths, spending her days contemplating what 0 to the power of 0 actually is, believe it or not, Mrs Kellwood was not always teaching pupils. At the age of 15, she found herself venturing for the job that was just the fit for her. She searched in shops she had never considered before, until…her first job: a shoe fitter.

Her fondest memories being the mad rush for school shoes during the summer, scrambling for different discreet sizing of shoes. Mrs Kellwood would spend her days scrambling for kid-sized shoes, hoping that the desired size would be in stock to avoid any disappointment from customers. Searching for kid-shoes may be the most precarious thing she has to ever do, the stock was located in the basement of the shop where she had to crawl to reach the best shoe for customers. As she got older, she was allocated to the ‘ancient’ till systems, where she would have to write the receipts herself, a concept unheard of to the modern person. As well as this, she was at the age where she could finally open the shop solo.

However chaotic her memories may be, ultimately she concluded to us that the shoe industry wasn’t for her: university called, and her shoe story came to an end.