Meet our Staff

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Leadership Team
Mrs M Porter (Headteacher)
Ms T Tomes (Senior Deputy Headteacher)
Mrs C Ashcroft (Deputy Headteacher/Upper School Leader)
Mrs C Alonzi (Assistant Headteacher/ Lower School Leader)
Mrs C Rees (Assistant Headteacher/Middle School Leader)
Lower School
Mrs C Alonzi (Assistant Headteacher/Lower School Leader)  
Lower School Teachers
EYFS Team Teachers
Ms A Khan (Nursery Teacher/EYFS SENCO)
Mrs C Alonzi
Mrs R Pitt
Mrs L Sharpe
Mrs L Gudgeon
Mrs C Nastase
Miss J Weaver

Year 1 Team Teachers
Miss J Breslin
Mrs K Ferguson
Mrs S Lindsay
Miss M Shahid  

EYFS Team TAs
Miss A Phelan
Mrs S Kablic
Mrs D Pole-Szafranek
Mrs L Lawrence
Mrs C Gregory
Mrs K Bhayat
Miss S Langhorn
Mrs A Ahmed

Year 1 Team TAs
Mrs S Patel
Mrs Y Shaikh
Mrs L Debnath
Miss K Smith
Middle School
Mrs C Rees (Assistant Headteacher/Middle School Leader)  
Middle School Teachers
Year 2 Team Teachers
Mrs S Ali
Miss M Ahmed
Ms R Whitworth
Mrs R Garner

Year 3 Team Teachers
Mrs E Seymour
Mrs S Sidhu
Miss R Peberdy
Mrs R Kaur  

Year 4 Team Teachers
Mrs C Rees
Mrs S Hamid
Miss G Marston
Mrs K Trivedi

Year 2 Team TAs
Mrs H Mahmood
Mrs P Da Cruz Martins
Mrs M Jassal  

Year 3 Team TAs
Mrs K Elzaneti

Year 4 Team TAs
Mrs Y Akhtar
Miss S Daulet 
Upper School
Mrs C Ashcroft (Deputy Headteacher/Upper School Leader)  
Upper School Teachers  
Year 5 Team Teachers
Mr D Henson (Lead Practitioner)
Dr S Stephens
Miss M de Miranda
Mr D Lloyd

Year 6 Team Teachers
Miss L Savage
Mrs D Briggs (Lead Practitoner)
Mr R Boyle
Mrs C Rawlings
Miss N Robinson

Year 5 TAs
Mrs N Noor-Boksh
Mrs H Plahe
Miss F Postlethwaite  

Year 6 TAs
Miss N Connor
Ms J Brown
Mrs R Meraoiu
Associate Teacher
Mr Z Khan
Learning Support
Mrs J Walker (SENCO)
Mrs J Khatun
Mrs C Storey
Mrs N Durrani
Mrs K Gallagher
Mrs N Parekh  
Intervention Team
Miss S Cook
Mrs P Lea
Mrs R Muzaffar
Miss M Woods
Mrs J Harwood
Mrs L McCreath
Mrs K Grant
Mrs S Jeena
Mrs F Ahmed
Pastoral and Attendance Team
Mrs R Wake (Family Support Worker)
Miss L Mason (Attendance Officer)
Mrs L Lawrence (Inclusion Mentor)
Miss D Walsh (Inclusion Mentor)
Mr J Skeen (Inclusion Mentor)
Miss Lisa Baptiste (Inclusion Mentor)
Central Functions Team
Admin Team
Mrs E Cafferty (Office Manager)
Mrs M Halford
Miss N Branfield
Miss K Wills

Premises Team
Mr M Head (Site Services Officer)
Mr L Hickey (Assistant Site Services Officer)
Mrs J James
Miss K Dunne
Mr J Opolski
Mrs Z Bi
Mrs R Kaur
Mrs A Ahmed
Mr S Wilson
Miss R Beaumont
Mrs N Mustafa  

Catering Team
Mrs T Olney (Catering Manager)
Mr D Reynolds (Executive Chef)
Miss S Olney (Cook)
Mrs P Tasker
Mrs J James
Mrs G Mumtaaz
Mrs R Rahman
Mrs T Saleh
Supervisory Assistants
Mrs R Khatun
Mrs A Nessa
Mrs J Akhtar
Mrs S Akther
Mrs R Ali
Miss R Beaumont
Mrs R Begum
Mrs S Happy
Mrs N Nasemi
Miss E Nechita
Mrs A Shaukat
Mrs L Skipton
Mrs M Talukdar
Mrs P Van Laywen
Mrs R Patel
Mrs P Bahar
Mrs E Gulsham
Mrs A Khanom
Wraparound Care Team – ‘The Nest’
Mrs M Begum
Mrs R Ali
Mrs R Begum
Mrs R Rahman