Key staff in Senior School

Senior Staff

• Sue Woodroofe – Principal
• Dr Graham Purves – Vice Principal and Head of Senior School
• Helen Stansfield – Senior Deputy Head (Pastoral)
• Dr Debbie Danks – Senior Deputy Head (Academic)
• Rachel Purcell – Interim Assistant Head – Director of Sixth Form
• Chris Freeman – Deputy Head (Pastoral)
• Dr Mark Cramoysan – Deputy Head (Data and Systems)
• Orla Weaver – Assistant Head (Digital learning and Professional Development)
• Laurel Rees – Assistant Head (Co-curricular)
• Lorcan O’Brien – Whole School Director of Sport

Heads of Year

• Gill Rogerson – Head of Year 7
• Paul Rushworth – Head of Year 8
• Alex Pull – Head of Year 9
• Dominic Taylor-Costa – Head of Year 10
• Georgie Dee – Head of Year 11
• Laura Parker – Head of Year 12
• James Veitch– Head of Year 13

Directors of Faculty & Heads of Department

• Tom Rogerson – Director of Assessment
• Leanne Sutheran – Head of Student Health and Wellbeing
• Dr Michael Dearden – Director of Faculty – Science and Mathematics
• Tom Bodley – Head of Academic PE
• Pat Brotherton – Head of Mathematics
• David Dee – Head of Physics
• Dr Lynne Gilbert – Head of Biology
• Ray Peacock – Head of Chemistry
• John Mackenzie – Director of Sport (Senior School)
• Kerry Kurczij – Director of Faculty – Humanities
• Fiona Fishburn – Head of Religious Studies
• Cathryn Haigh – Head of History
• Anna Merrick – Head of English
• Emma Whittaker – Director of Faculty – Global Communication and Development
• Chris Belcher – Head of French
• Frank Hill – Head of German
• Simon Knowles – Head of Geography
• Rowan Reed-Purvis – Head of Spanish
• Rob Stevenson – Head of Economics and Business Studies
• Emily Taylor – Head of Classics
• Maria Collins – Director of Faculty – Creative Thinking
• John Bagshaw – Head of Design Technology
• Roz Bendelow and Scott Reynolds – Head of Drama
• Stewart Kelly – Head of Art
• Philippa Sidwell – Head of Music
• Tim Street – Head of Computer Science
• Yvonne Wilson – Head of Food Technology
• Alison Wilson – Head of Psychology

Individual Needs

We have a well-qualified and experienced Individual Needs department 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 teaching assistants. Staff in the department hold a wide range of SEND qualifications, including specialist assessment qualifications.