Key staff in Primary School

Leadership team

Gabrielle Solti – Vice Principal and Head of Primary School
Emma Cox – Deputy Head Academic
Andrea Evans  – Deputy Head Pastoral and Staff Development
Steph Munro – Assistant Head (Phase 1)
Krystyana Marlowe – Assistant Head (Phase 2)
James Shepherd – Assistant Head (Phase 3)

Reception

Emma Straughan – Teacher/Head of Reception
Harry Pickup – Teacher
Steve McKinley – Teacher
Lucy Macfarlane – Teacher

Year 1

Geraldine Riley – Teacher/Head of Year 1
Eleanor Henry – Teacher
Jo Gordon – Teacher
Victoria Bindloss – Teacher

Year 2

Louise Cove – Teacher/Head of Year 2
Sam Critchley – Teacher/Head of Smeaton House
Chris Dawes – Teacher
Katie Herridge – Teacher

Year 3

Lynne Sagar – Head of Year 3
Gareth Coleman – Teacher/Head of Marshall House
Jane Davis – Teacher
Hayley Darby-Brown – Teacher
Tina O’Dwyer – Teacher
Emily Wright – Teacher

Year 4

Rachel Bush – Teacher/Head of Year 4
Matthew Barron – Teacher
Helen Tuxford – Teacher
Becky Dunn – Teacher
Heather Pawley – Teacher/Head of Kennedy House

Year 5

Ben Thurnhill – Teacher/Head of Year 5
Ashleigh Britton – Teacher
Sarah Huddleston – Teacher
Rebecca Alston – Teacher
Katrina Martin – Teacher

Year 6

Nathan Brook – Teacher/Head of Year 6
Liz King – Teacher/Maths Lead
Jack Lees – Teacher/English Lead
Neil McCluskey – Teacher/Head of Nicholson House
Amy Wilson – Teacher

Specialist teachers

Anna Rusbatch – Director of Music
Robbie MacKinnon – Assistant Director of Music

Craig Whish – Director of Primary Sport & PE
Lyndsay Bromby – Teacher PE & Sport

Philippe Bourgeois – MFL Teacher

Individual needs

We have a well-qualified and experienced individual needs team which works throughout the whole school. Mrs Sally Cooke is the director of the Individual Needs Department. The team consists of three individual needs teachers and seven individual needs teaching assistants. Staff in the department hold a wide range of SEND qualifications, including specialist assessment qualifications.