Tom has worked in education since his days studying Music at Durham University, working as part of the University Outreach Team on a Primary residential project that provided exciting opportunities for a range of children from deprived areas in the North of England. Following this, he took a position at Copthill Independent School, supporting the Sport and Music departments and assisting in everyday lessons across the school, whilst preparing for his PGCE Year at the University of Cambridge. During that year, Tom was lucky enough to work in a range of excellent schools, including Great Sampford Primary School, Dunmow St Mary’s Primary School and Cherry Hinton Primary School, gaining a wealth of experience from several high-level educators. In this time, Tom received a university prize for his research project into pupil perceptions of gender roles in education.

Tom’s time as a fully-qualified teacher began in the town of March - at Cavalry Primary School. Here, Tom primarily worked as one of the Year 6 teachers whilst leading Modern Foreign Languages, working with the Arts curriculum learning group, accompanying and leading the successful school choir and learning the trombone to play in the pupils and teachers’ Concert Band. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Tom supported key-worker bubbles whilst designing engaging and innovative ways of learning remotely. This was alongside the introduction of ‘Mr Day’s Magical Music Friday’, where children and parents sent in requests to be heard and played by Tom and guests each Friday on their Facebook page. This helped Tom to build a positive relationship with the school community in a challenging time, something he still values incredibly highly now. Tom also had the opportunity to mentor students from the PGCE course at Cambridge, repaying the knowledge and kindness he was offered half a decade earlier.

In 2023, Tom joined St Peter's School as the new Year 4 teacher, and has since loved getting to know the school community. He has enjoyed planning the explorers’ trip to London and further developing the Year 4 curriculum, alongside supporting the excellent sports department and occasionally singing with the Community Choir! Outside the world of St Peters, Tom still enjoys making music for fun and as an organist in his local church, as well as playing hockey, cricket and plodding around half marathons. Most of his free time, however, is spent annoying his daughter, Olivia, who he welcomed with his wife Rebekah in March 2024.