Leadership Team
Mr Philip White (PW) – Headteacher
Ms Natalie Cording (NCO) – Deputy Headteacher (Achievement)
Mr Duncan Powell (DJP) – Deputy Headteacher (Teaching and Learning)
Mrs Jane Eaton (JE) – Assistant Headteacher (Pastoral Care)
Mr Kevin Morris (KM) – Assistant Headteacher (Character Development)
Miss Catherine Trueman (CLT) – Assistant Headteacher (Head of Sixth Form)
Mr David Rutt (DR) – Associate Assistant Headteacher and Deputy Head of Sixth Form
Ms Elaine Selby (ESE) – Business Manager
Student Support Teams
Mrs Paola Venables (PV) – Head of Year 7
Mr Jake Dixon (JDI) – Director of Achievement (Lower School) Year 8
Mrs Verity Stevens (VLS) – Pastoral Manager (Lower School) Year 8
Miss Emma Egan(EE) – Director of Achievement (Lower School) Year 9
Mrs Melissa Ross(MRO) – Pastoral Manager for Year 9
Dr Helen Sheppard (HSH) – Director of Achievement (Upper School) Year 10
Mrs Jude Dent(JD) – Pastoral Manager (Upper School) Year 10
Mrs Helen Lilley (HNO) – Director of Achievement (Upper School) Year 11 (Maternity Leave)
Mr Mike Gould (MGO) – Director of Achievement (Upper School) Year 11 (Maternity Cover)
Mrs Helen Gulliford (HG) – Post-16 Pastoral Manager
Mrs Hilary Stubbs (HJS) – Attendance Manager
Mrs Victoria Watkins (VWA) – Attendance Assistant
Curriculum Areas
Applied Learning and Employability Faculty
Mr Christopher Morgan (CMO) – Head of Faculty
Mrs Philippa Johnston (PJO) – Subject Lead Product Design
Miss Jenna Button (JBU) – Subject Lead Textiles
Mrs Emma Baber (EB) – Teacher of Food and Subject Lead for Child Development
Mrs Natalie Cording (NC) – Business Studies/Economics and Deputy Headteacher
Mrs Jane Eaton (JE) – Textiles
Mrs Jude Lisney (JLI) – Textiles
Mrs Victoria Hodges (VHO) – DT Technician
Miss Laura Jefferies (LJ) – Health & Fitness/Child Development/PE
Ms Helen May (HM) – Lower School Coordinator Design & Technology and Product Design
Miss Robyn Northover (RN) – DT Technician
Miss Kate Rennie (KRE) – Subject Lead Food
Mrs Julie Saunders (JS) – DT Technician
Mrs Nicola Turner (NTU) – Health and Social Care/Child Development and WIN Project Officer
Careers
Mrs Philippa Johnston (PJ) – Careers Lead 11-16 and STEM Employability Co-ordinator
Ms Pollyanna Langford-Lacny (PLA) – Careers Lead 16-18
English Faculty
Ms Elizabeth Twohigg (ET) – Head of English Faculty
Ms Melissa Curran (MCU) – Second in Faculty
Miss Claire Woolger (CWO) – Director of Literacy
Mrs Joscelyne Beazley (JBE) – English (Achievement First Year 8)
Ms Emma Egan – English, DoA Year 9
Mr Philip Foyle (PFO) – English
Mrs Fran Foster (FF) – English, KS5 Co-ordinator
Ms Pollyanna Langford-Lacny (PLA) – English, KS4 Careers Lead
Ms Susanna Mountcastle (SMO) – English
Mrs Vicki Palmer (VP) – English (Achievement First Year 7)
Mr Duncan Powell (DJP) – English (and Deputy Headteacher: Teaching and Learning)
Mr Jack Strawbridge (JST) – English
Miss Rachel Zimmerman (RZI) – English
Humanities Faculty
Mrs Rachel Sayles (RSA) – Head of Faculty and Philosophy and Beliefs
Mr Mark Weston (MW) – Head of Geography
Mrs Suzanne Brown (SBR) – Geography
Miss Charlotte Davies (CDA) – Geography ECT
Miss Francesca Evans (FEV) – Geography ECT
Mr Michael Gould (MGO) – Geography
Miss Lucia Walker (LWA) – Head of History
Miss Stephanie Higgs (SHI) – History
Mr Richard Paterson (RPT) – History
Miss Catherine Trueman (CLT) – History and Global Perspectives, Assistant Headteacher (Head of Sixth Form)
Mr Matt Halsall (MAH) – Head of Social Sciences (Sociology and Psychology)
Mrs Tanya Laurenson (TAL) – Philosophy and Beliefs
Mrs Mary Patterson (SMP) – Philosophy and Beliefs
Mrs Sophie Franey (SFA) – Psychology (part time) (maternity leave)
Mr Piers Mallam (PMA) – Psychology
Learning Support Faculty
Ms Kate Haden (KHA) – SENCO
Miss Jennifer Bentley(JAB) – Teaching Assistant
Miss Renee Bond (RBO) – Teaching Assistant
Miss Eleanor Brennan (EBR) – Teaching Assistant
Miss Verity Chappell (VC) – SpLD Co-ordinator and Teaching Assistant
Miss Lauren Clark (LCL) – Teaching Assistant
Mrs Moira Fenton (MF) – Senior Teaching Assistant
Mrs Jane Hutchins (JHU) – Teaching Assistant
Mr Andrew Lawrence (DLA) – Teaching Assistant
Mrs Claire Morris (CM) – Teaching Assistant
Miss Domino Silvestor (DSV) – Teaching Assistant
Miss Deanna Vernon (DV) – Teaching Assistant
Mathematics and Computing Faculty
Mr Robert Holbrook (RWH) – Head of Faculty
Mr Christopher Bent (CRB) – Second in Faculty and KS3 Co-ordinator
Mrs Ruth Burden (RCB) – Mathematics (part time), KS5 Co-ordinator
Miss Helen Clash (HAC) – Mathematics (part time)
Mr Adrian Cottle (AC) – Head of Computing
Mr Niall Dawson (NDA) Mathematics and Economics
Mr Jake Dixon (JDI) – Mathematics
Mr David Fowles (DF) – Mathematics, Leader of Maths Curriculum and Support
Mrs Katherine Grayley (KLG) – Mathematics
Mrs Helen Lilley (HNO) – Mathematics
Mrs Leanne Newman (LNE) – Mathematics (part time)
Mr Benjamin Robinson (BRB) – Computing
Mr Tom Simons (TSI) – Mathematics (part time)
Mrs Abigail Stephens (AST) – Mathematics
Mrs Heather Walsh (HW) – Mathematics (part time) and Head of Extended Maths
Performance and Arts Faculty
Mr Roy Page (RPA) – Head of Faculty
Mrs Charlene Adams (CA) – Music
Mr Howard Lee (HJL) – Head of Art and Photography
Miss Sharma Everson (SEV) – Art
Mr Samual Marsh (SMA) – Art
Mrs Venetia Osborne (VO) – Art (part time)
Miss Hannah Fitzgerald (HF) – Head of Dance
Mr Darian Nelson (DN) – Head of Drama
Mr Adrian Cottle (AC) – Performing Arts
Miss Erin McCarthy (EMC) – Head of PE
Miss Hannah Dury (HDU) – PE
Miss Helena Ford (HFO) – PE/ Dance Teacher and part-time PE Technician/Administrator ECT
Mrs Nikki Hodkinson (NJH) – PE (part time)
Miss Laura Jefferies (LJ) – PE
Mrs Joanne White (JMW) – PE (part time)
Mr Sean Young (SYO) – Music/Drama
Science Faculty
Mrs Emma Whatley (ELW) – Head of Science Faculty and Head of Chemistry
Mr Martin Somerton (MDS) – Head of KS5 Applied Learning and Progress for PP
Mr Kris Attwood (KA) – Head of Physics
Mr Chris Fuller (CFU) – Head of Biology
Dr Elaine Avramenko (EAV) – Science
Mrs Alison Greenslade (AFG) – Science Technician
Miss Megan Jarvis (MJA) – Science
Mr Paul Keitch (PKE) – Senior Science Technician (Technical Support)
Mr Mark Little (MLI) – Science
Mrs Katie Pennicott (KP) – Science (part time)
Mr Ben Robinson (BRO) – Science with responsibility for T&L in Science
Miss Florence Roycroft Senior Science Technician (Administration)
Mr David Rutt (DR) – Science
Dr Helen Sheppard (HSH) – Science (DoA)
Miss Molly Tyson (MTY) Science ECT
World Languages Faculty
Mrs Catherine Blyth (CBL) – Head of Faculty
Mr James Allen (JAL) – French/Spanish (Head of French)
Mrs Elizabeth Cordero (LC) – KS3 Languages Co-ordinator
Miss Rosanna Bradford (RBR) – French/Spanish
Miss Raluca Pupaza (RPU) – French/Spanish
Miss Emilie Saban (ESA) – French/Spanish
Support Staff
Administrative Team
Ms Elaine Selby (ESE) Business Manager
Mrs Emma Sparkes (ESP) School Administration Manager
Mrs Jennifer Codd Administrator
Miss Chelsea Bond (JDE) Administrator
Mr Lowan Mackie (LMA) School Admin Support Apprentice
Ms Fiona Harrison (FH) Partnership and International Homestay Co-ordinator
Mrs Sue Long (SL) Pastoral Team Administrator
Mrs Nicola Matthews (NMA) Headteacher’s PA
Ms Genevieve Tarboton (GTA) Digital Media and Communications Officer
Mrs Mariana Romero (MRM) Reprographics Assistant
Mrs Hilary Stubbs (HJS) Attendance Manager(part-time)
Mrs Victoria Watkins (VWA) Attendance Administrator(part-time)
Mr Paul Evry (PEV) Finance Manager
Mrs Sara Griffin (SG) Finance Officer
Mrs Alexandra Stott (RMO) HR and Office Administrator
Mrs Wendy Goodman (WG) Cover Organiser
Mrs Brenda Brian (BB) Classroom Supervisor
Duke of Edinburgh and CCF
Miss Stephanie Higgs (SH) – DoE Manager
Mrs Nicola Macey (NMA) – DoE Administrator and SSIM CCF (part time)
Examinations and Data
Mr Jonathan Archer (JAR) – Examinations Officer
Dr Catrin Yeomans (CYE) – Data Manager
Mr Tom Hiscott (THI) Data Officer
Information Technology
Mr Ian Portlock – Network Manager
Mr Alfie Jarvis – IT Technician
Reading Room
Miss Hannah Bloomfield (HBL) – Reading Room Co-ordinator
School Nurse
Mrs Evette Taylor – School Nurse
Student Support
Miss Nicola Macey (NMC) – Student Support Assistant
Catering Team
Mrs Kerry Leakey (KL1) – Chef Manager
Mrs Clare Humphries (CHU) – Assistant Sous Chef
Miss Sam Humphries (SHU) – Catering Assistant
Mrs Christine Hutchison (CH) – Catering Assistant
Mrs Laura Leach (LL) – Sous Chef
Mrs Katie Morgan (KMO) – Catering Assistant
Miss Emma Owen (EOW) – Catering Assistant
Estates Team
Mr Ian Goodridge (IG) – Estate Manager
Mr Albert Hutchison (AH1) – Caretaker
Mr Neil Manning (NM) – Facilities Technician
Mr Daniel Howard (DHO) – Facilities Technician
Housekeeping Team
Mr Paul Keen (PAK) – Cleaning Services Manager
Mrs Karen Dallard (KDA) – Senior Housekeeper
Ms Michelle Collett (MC) – Cleaner
Mr James George (NG) – Cleaner
Ms Nadia Gueorguieva (NG) – Cleaner
Mrs Christine Hutchison (CH) – Cleaner
Mrs Lorraine Northey (LW) – Cleaner
Ms Rosalind Shand (RSH) – Cleaner
Mr Robert Wilce (RW) – Cleaner
Mr Kevin Baker (KBA) – Cleaner