Hi, I’m Kate, co-founder of The Human Hive and the founder and principal of The Hive School!  

I have over 20 years' teaching experience and have spent much of that time training and developing teachers and educators all over the world. I worked as a French teacher for 14 years, and have over 10 years’ experience in school leadership roles. I first started work on a Year 7 Learning to Learn curriculum in 2005, with the aim of helping pupils develop the knowledge and skills needed to navigate the often-difficult transition from primary to secondary school. I then spent the next 10 years refining and improving both the methodology and the results, culminating in a whole-school approach to teaching and learning known as the Learning Skills curriculum.  

Then came the Human Hive. For me, the Human Hive really began when I was watching stories on the news about the refugee crisis and said to myself “why isn’t anyone doing anything about that?”  In answer to my own question, I had this crazy idea to buy a bus on E-Bay and turn it into a school. The idea was that this bus could be taken into the heart of the Jungle refugee camp in Calais and support the people there with an education project.