Professor Pea

Hopefully the first of many Professor Peas, I am a Biology teacher with 12 years’ experience in the UK and Jordan. I have taught both the UK national curriculum and the IB and wanted a fun way for “reluctant scientists” to access material about their bodies. Having worked with pupils from 4 to 18 years old, I am happy to engage the imagination of children of various ages in the hope of making them curious about Biology.

I started writing the World of Cells series for my godchildren, some of whom feature in the Seb the Red compilation reading. Having read a few never-to-be-named books at bedtime which sent me to sleep as much as the child next to me, I wanted some simple stories that work on various levels. Once embedded in the wonderful world of our cells and realising the educational value of that perspective, it became important to me that, although simplified, the basic biology is correct. I would like students to look back at the World of Cells when they reach the ages for taking (inter)national exams and for them to realise that their learning outcomes are no more difficult to remember than a child’s story.