Award-winning campaigner joins Coleg Sir Gâr as English GCSE coordinator
Coleg Sir Gâr has welcomed a new member of staff who is already trailing an educational blaze with her inspiring, award-winning campaign work.
Georgia Theodoulou is the college’s new English GCSE coordinator who also teaches A-level English and drama at the college.
Outside of work, she is an award-winning VAWG (Violence Against Women and Girls) campaigner, a delegate for UN Women UK and is the Strategic Lead for Our Streets Now for Wales and Sports.
Georgia works across Ammanford, Pibwrlwyd and Graig campuses and is also a past A-level student of the college where she studied English literature and language, Spanish, French and drama and theatre studies.
After gaining her A-levels, she went on to study at the prestigious Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, where she trained and still works as a professional actor.
For three years, she has been working with Our Streets Now on a national campaign which tackles public sexual harassment. Her work with them began after the organisation asked teachers for help with content for their resources.
She also freelances for charities and organisations on gender equality and sexual harassment and abuse, with a focus on educational and sports settings and advises the Welsh Government on legislation and strategy for violence against women.
Georgia won a UN Women UK award last November for the work she leads on in Wales, training teachers and safeguarding leads as well as students and young people and campaigning to make public spaces safer for all.
As part of UN Women UK, Georgia will be virtually attending the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) which takes place in New York this year (2024).
She was also part of the ‘Female Leaders in Football’ initiative at the World Football Summit in Sevilla, Spain in September 2023, where the likes of the general secretary of FIFA and professional players from Sevilla FC attended.
At Coleg Sir Gâr, Georgia coordinates the GCSE English resits where students who didn’t quite get the grades they needed at GCSE level are given the opportunity to relearn and resit their exam.
This could be to progress to a certain level of a vocational BTEC diploma or to enter a career or degree such as teaching, where GCSE maths and English are mandatory.
Georgia has previously taught at Bishop Gore and Olchfa comprehensives and worked at a special independent school for disengaged students in Llanelli.
Georgia Theodoulou, GCSE English coordinator for Coleg Sir Gâr said: “I’m really enjoying my work at college as you’re seeing students that have previously had a negative experience with the subject, so it’s great to see them learn in a different way than before and to see them achieving that light bulb moment.
“Students come to us from all kinds of course areas, from catering to construction, so we try to relate GCSE course content to those areas and learn in a way that works for them.
“We also encourage the Teach the Teacher programme where the student gets to share their own specialist course area such as plastering or animal studies.”
