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Our Staff & Governors

Staff

Name Role
Claire Rigden Head Teacher and designated safeguarding lead.
Martin Cumming Assistant head teacher, Inclusion lead and deputy safeguarding lead.
Mary Kendall Teacher of Kingfishers and deputy safeguarding lead.
Kathryn Parry Teacher of Puffin group.
Sarah Lomas Little owl's/ERP group lead, mental health and wellbeing lead and deputy safeguarding lead.
Jane Samuels Teaching assistant.
Kath Wilkinson Teaching assistant.
Fiona Woods Teaching assistant.
Helen Grady Teaching assistant.
Dana Alhaj Teaching assistant.
Amanda Willoughby Little Owl's/ERP Practitioner.
Sandra Cairns Little Owl's/ERP Practitioner.
Lauren Lomas Little Owl's/ERP Practitioner, teaching assistant, dinner friend and wrap around worker.
Jacqui Barnett Teaching assistant, speech and language specialism.
Abigail Foster Teaching assistant, dinner friend and wrap around worker.
Chloe Dale Teaching assistant, play worker and dinner friend.

Debbie Clark

Wrap around manager, teaching assistant and dinner friend.

Donna Lancaster

Early year's educator apprentice and dinner friend.

Olivia Bains Teaching assistant, dinner friend and wrap around worker.

Jayne Cook 

Wrap around worker.

Vicky Leary Dinner friend and wrap around worker.
Kay Pearson  Dinner friend.
Michelle Grassby Dinner friend.
Nicola Jolly Business Manager.
Karen Bregg Finance assistant.

Gemma Oldfield 

Administrative assistant.

Andrea Holden Administrative assistant, dinner friend and wrap around worker.
Mick Dowker Site manager

Governors

Name Category
Claire Rigden Headteacher
Siobhan McGrellis Co-opted Chair of Governors
Martin Cumming Staff Governor
Kate Fisk Local Authority governor
Sarah Masefield - Karran Parent Governor
Sabina Peck Parent governor
Julia Hedley-Jones Vice Chair
Vacant position Parent Governor
Sarah Lomas Co-opted Staff
Erin Symonds Co-opted
Jennifer Harbertson Co-opted

All governors minutes (barring confidential items) are available on request. Please email the school office to request. See below for the register of attendance for the last academic year and the policy page for governor declaration of interest forms:

 

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