I consider it a great privilege to sit on the Education Department. I am passionate about education and the opportunities it affords young people, who are the future of our island.

I have joined Education at an exciting but challenging time. Exciting because we are in the middle of the biggest schools redevelopment programme ever undertaken in Guernsey; challenging because there remains a pressing need to commit further resources to all sectors of education. 

I have a particular interest in establishing universal access to nursery education and rebuilding two of our three secondary schools – Les Beaucamps and La Mare de Carteret – as urgently as possible.