We take great pride in knowing that each and every one of our facilitators is an exceptional educator and talented individual. However, once per term we like to select a single facilitator as ‘Educator Of The Term’ to focus on and tell you a little bit more about…generally if they’ve gone above and beyond for us and the schools in which they work!
Therefore, this term, please congratulate…
Mat Emms-Hobbins (North), Sarah Louise De Silva (Wales) & Roxanne Browne (London) are crowned our ‘Educators of the Term’! Want to see why they are our Autumn Super Stars? Read on…
Bigfoot North – Mat Emms-Hobbins
We’re delighted to name Mat as our Facilitator of the Term! This Autumn, Mat has been hard at work delivering our Anti-Bullying Week programmes and supporting rehearsals for our Christmas productions — which he’ll also be performing in. His enthusiasm, talent, and rapport with students have truly shone through.
Here’s some wonderful feedback from a class teacher at Harton Primary:
“Just wanted to give some quick feedback about Mat — he has been amazing and the children have LOVED the workshops! We already want to book for next year!”
Bigfoot Wales – Sarah Louise De Silva
Sarah Louise has been part of the Bigfoot Wales family almost from the very beginning—nearly 20 years of inspiring creativity in schools across Wales! Over the years, she has delivered an incredible range of workshops and assemblies, from our Respect assembly to the popular Mental Health and Wellbeing “Worry Wizard” programme.
Children absolutely adore her, and it’s easy to see why. Sarah is a fantastic actress with a calm, warm presence, whose passion, experience, talent, and skills she shares generously with every pupil. She is patient, approachable, and brilliant with all ages, bringing energy, creativity, and heart to everything she does. We are so grateful to Sarah for being with Bigfoot Wales from the very start, and we hope her inspirational work continues for many years to come. She is truly a joy to have around!
Bigfoot London – Roxanne Browne
We are delighted to announce that Roxanne is London’s Educator of the term!
Roxanne first joined the Bigfoot Team back in 2017, and after a few years facilitating and performing in Canada, we were thrilled to welcome her back into the Bigfoot orbit this term with open arms!
Roxanne has been straight to work having the busiest term being part our Big Experience teams for both Black History Month and Anti Bullying Week, with enormous success. She is now delighting EYFS audiences across London in The Clumsiest Christmas Elf whilst also working with us to develop an exciting new Shakespeare Experience next term.
Roxanne is an absolute joy to work with; she is hardworking, committed and completely dedicated to giving young people the very best of creative learning experiences. It is a privilege to watch Roxanne perform and facilitate; she has the rare ability to enable pupils to meaningfully connect with the issues and stories being explored with both depth and humour.
Pupils, teachers and colleagues alike ALWAYS have wonderful things to say about working with Roxanne– it is always a treat to know you are going to be working with her in whatever capacity! Schools always give Roxanne outstanding feedback; Barclay Primary School recently told us that:
The children absolutely loved it and genuinely enjoyed every single minute of the show. It was wonderful to see how naturally (Roxanne) encouraged participation. Every child felt involved, included, and part of the fun…You could tell she truly cared about making the experience magical for them.
We are so excited to continue working with Roxanne again next year, and beyond! Thank you Roxanne, and well done for a brilliant Autumn term!