SECONDARY STAFF
SENIOR LEADERSHIP TEAM
S Elsworth
Acting Principal
A Gendler-Watson
Vice Principal Academic
S Read
Vice Principal Pastoral
R Butler
Assistant Vice Principal (Raising Standards Leader)
M Davies
Assistant Vice Principal Post 16 Energy Central and Engineering
D Lloyd
Assistant Vice Principal (Head of Post 16)
A Moore
Assistant Vice Principal (Assessment & Student Performance)
C Sams
Assistant Vice Principal Post 16 Academic and Careers
P Smith
Assistant Vice Principal Safeguarding and Child Protection
J Taylor
Assistant Vice Principal Pastoral
R Scott
Assistant Vice Principal Curriculum Quality Assurance
M Stevens
Assistant Vice Principal Professional Development
R Lee
Assistant Vice Principal Attendance & Alternative Provision
TEACHING STAFF
Art Team
- P Birdsall – Head of Art & Engineering
- V Smith – Assistant Head of Art & Engineering
- C Pickering – Art Teacher
- K Crown – Teacher of Art & Art Technician
“Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse
Computer Science & Business Team
- T Robinson – Head of Computer Science & Business
- C Taylor – Assistant Head of Computer Science & Business
- J Hydon – Teacher of Computer Science & Business
- R Ulman – Teacher of Computer Science & Business
“Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible.” – Alan Turing
Cover Team
- R Riley – Cover Manager
- R Edge – Cover Supervisor / Teacher of Maths / Teacher of Music
Engineering Team
P Birdsall – Head of Art & Engineering
V Smith – Assistant Head of Art & Engineering
M Davies – Assistant Vice Principal Post 16 Energy Central & Engineering, Teacher of Engineering
- R Nolan-Warren – Assistant Head of Design Technology
R Fraser – Teacher of Food & Nutrition
- S Benson – Teacher of Engineering
A Hall – Teacher of Engineering
J Read – Teacher of Design Technology
L Townend – Teacher of Design Technology & Engineering / Assistant SENDCO
- D Sword – Engineering Technician & STEM coordinator
A Dawson – Cleaning Assistant, Food Technician
“Whatever good things we build end up building us” – Jim Rohn
English Team
- C Drew – Head of English
- C Bell – Assistant Head of English
- E Ridley – Assistant Head of English
- L Broadway – Teacher of English
- J Clarkson – Teacher of English & KS5 Co-Ordinator
- J McFarlane – Teacher of English
- P Moore – Teacher of English
- E Perrin – Teacher of English
“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
Health & Social Care Team
- N Winchester – Subject Lead Health & Social Care/Deputy Head Post 16
- L Minnikin – Teacher of Health & Social Care
Humanities Team
- J Shackleton – Head of Department History
- B Reynolds – Assistant Head of Department History
- J Stoker-Pearson – Head of Department Geography
- S Fraser – Assistant Head of Department Geography
- H Caisley – Teacher of Geography
- C Park – Teacher of History/Personal Development Curriculum Lead
- M Richardson – Teacher of Geography
- J Kelly – Teacher of History
“History is all explained by Geography” – Robert Penn Warren
Maths Team
- S Hindhaugh – Head of Mathematics
- A Sutton – Assistant Head of Mathematics
- M Rylatt – Assistant Head of Mathematics
- S Maughan – Teacher of Mathematics
- T Clough – Teacher of Mathematics
- E Thompson – Teacher of Mathematics
- J Tian – Teacher of Mathematics
- K Pollard – Teacher of Mathematics
“Mathematics is the music of reason.” – James Joseph Sylvester
MFL Team
- M Armstrong – Head of Modern Foreign Languages
- E Jones – Assistant Head of MFL
- M Jolly – Teacher of MFL
- Mrs E Sadler – Teacher of MFL
- P Sanders – Teacher of MFL / AHOH Oswald / Rewards & Transition Lead
“With languages, you are at home anywhere.” – Edward De Waal
Music Team
- L Saul – Director of Music
- B Mark – Teacher of Music & Assistant SENDCo
- L Sutton – Subject Lead Drama
“Music is the shorthand of emotion.” – Leo Tolstoy
PE Team
- S McAree – Director of Sport
- A Barclay – Teacher of Girls’ PE
- A Bonner – Teacher of Girls’ PE
- S Scotland – Teacher of Girls’ PE
- A Sutherland – Assistant Head of Department PE
- M Jamieson-Yip – Teacher of Boys PE
“Champions keep playing until they get it right.” – Billie Jean King
Religious Studies Team
- D Kidney – Head of Religious Studies
- M Roberts – Assistant Head of Religious Studies
- A Stone – Teacher of Religious Studies & Chaplain
- O Lucas – Teacher of Religious Studies/AVP SEND and Stakeholder Engagement
- N Bowie – Teacher of Religious Studies
- A Harrison – Teacher of Religious Studies
“An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.” – Proverbs 18:15
Science Team
- H Edge – Head of Science
- A Carruthers – Assistant Head of Department Science
- J Wylie – Assistant Head of Department Science
- R Attley – Teacher of Chemistry
- D Spindler – Teacher of Chemistry
- D Coulson – Teacher of Biology / Pastoral Support Oswald House
- J Grange – Teacher of Physics
- B King – Teacher of Science
- K Tait – Teacher of Biology/Head of House Oswald
- C Sams – Assistant Vice Principal Post 16 Academic and Careers / Teacher of Science
- I Cherkassky – Science Technician
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” – Isaac Newton
Teaching Team
- H Allan – Deputy DSL Bereavement Lead
- R Blakesly-Jones – Teaching & Learning Performance Coach
- M Roberts – Assistant Head of Department
- L Street – Head of House Cuthbert
SUPPORT STAFF
Careers Team
- L Johnson – Careers Advisor
Admin Team
- K Burn – Administrator
- K Carling – Finance Accountant
- K Groom – Human Resources Officer
- K Harrison – Examinations Officer
- C Hawthorne – Assistant Librarian
- J Hawksworth – Other School Admin
- C Holmes – Library and Reading Curriculum Lead
- S Lynch – Administrator and Receptionist
- L Parkin – PA to the Principal
- A Richardson – Administrator and Receptionist
- T Richardson – Pastoral Administrator
- K Simpson – Finance Manager
- G Soulsby – Administrator/Clerk
- E Stenhouse – Administrator/Deputy Exams Officer
- O Wiggett – Administrator with First Aid Co-Ordinator Responsibility
- K Thompson – Student Welfare Officer
- C Smith – LAC Support & Welfare Officer
“A place for everything, everything in its place.” – Benjamin Franklin
AV/IT Team
- K Griffiths – Network Manager
- M Robinson – Senior IT Support Technician
- E Shaw – Audio Visual Technician
“Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.” – Thomas Edison
Catering Team
- P Bruce – Assistant Chef
- L Carey – Catering Assistant
- N Dickinson – Catering Asssitant
- E Dixon – Bistro Assistant
- D Hawkins – Catering Assistant
- J Knott – Catering Assistant
- G McDougall – Catering Asssitant
- A Moore – Chef / Manager
- T Murphy – Cook
- L Nichol – Catering Asssitant
- J Nicholson – Catering Assistant
- E Pattison – Catering Assistant
- J Quinn – Catering Assistant
“Food is our common ground, a universal experience.” – James Beard
Facilities Team
- P Crowe – Facilities Site Manager
- N Billings – Site Lettings Co-ordinator
- G Stokoe – Assistant Facilities Manager
- S Taylor – Assistant Facilities Manager
- J Fawcett – Building Technician
- P Bell – Cleaning Assistant
- D Burt – Cleaning Assistant
- A Clough – Cleaning Assistant
- A Dawson – Cleaning Assistant, Food Technician
- J Fraser – Cleaning Assistant
- V Hartfield – Cleaning Assistant
- A Jefferson – Cleaning Assistant
- J Kingston – Cleaning Assistant
- C Mackenzie – Cleaning Assistant
- K Stafford – Cleaning Assistant
- M Stephenson – Cleaning Assistant
“Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.” – Joseph Addison
Education Support Team
- A Peake – Pastoral Hub Manager
- J Brooks – Pastoral Support Worker (Cadet/DofE)
- S Harrison – Pastoral Support Worker
- H Heslop – Pastoral Support Worker
- E Horwood – Pastoral Support Worker
- S Collier – Learning Support Assistant
- D Cooper – Learning Support Assistant
- A Coulson – Higher Level Teaching Assistant (overseeing Autism)
- L Cox – Higher Level Teaching Assistant (SEMH)
- L Davison – Higher Level Teaching Assistant
- J Gee – Learning Support Assistant
- B Hanbouri – Learning Support Assistant
- M Lam – Learning Support Assistant
- D Mann – Learning Support Assistant
- N Morley – Learning Support Assistant
- J Orkney – Higher Level Teaching Assistant
- C Ruddock – Learning Support Assistant
- C Smith – Learning Support Assistant
- K Terry – Teaching Assistant
- J Vest – Learning Support Assistant
- A Wilson – Learning Support Assistant
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing” – Albert Einstein