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.