Trainee Instructor · AA Driving School

Learn to drive, calmly, around Poole & Bournemouth.

Manual lessons built around how you actually learn — relaxed, encouraging, and paced to you, whether you're starting from nothing or picking things back up.

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30 years teaching experience

Manual transmission lessons

Poole · Bournemouth & surrounding area

Thirty years of teaching people things that matter.

01 / About

TA to Operations Manager

Still working in a primary school today — started as a teaching assistant, now Operations Manager.

Years coaching on the water

Dinghy sailing, windsurfing and yachting — teaching a new physical skill safely, in changing conditions.

Instructor, one approach

Trainee instructor with AA Driving School, teaching manual lessons across Poole and Bournemouth.

Thirty years, two classrooms. I started in a primary school as a teaching assistant fifteen years ago, and I'm still there today as Operations Manager. Part of that role is spending time with children with ADHD, autism and dyslexia — which means learning to explain the same thing several different ways until it lands, not just repeating it louder.

The other fifteen years were spent coaching dinghy sailing, windsurfing and yachting — teaching a new physical skill safely, in conditions that don't always cooperate.

That's the approach I bring to the driving seat: relaxed, encouraging lessons built around how you learn best. Whether you're just starting out, picking things back up, or need things explained a bit differently, I'll meet you where you are.

What to expect in the car.

02 / Lessons

— Pace

Set by you

No fixed script. We go over what you need, for as long as you need it, before moving on.

— Manner

Calm, on purpose

A steady, patient presence in the passenger seat — and if the usual explanation isn't landing, I'll find another way in. Comes from years spent supporting children with ADHD, autism and dyslexia at school.

— Transmission