Meet Our Team

The ‘S’ in our BIRDS philosophy represents us as Scholars: it states that we grow our brain every minute of every day and understand that we learn from our mistakes.

Children consider their teachers as ‘ready made’. We like to remind them that we aren’t. We were young once… we couldn’t read once… we couldn’t talk or walk once just like them. We couldn’t do long division once and sometimes we even got in trouble with our teachers!

But we were Scholars and through our commitment to learning, our grit and resilience to pursue all the opportunities given to us we reached our dreams: it was really hard but we did it… and we’re still learning.

We want to remind our children that we were once little scholars; so here we are!

Senior Leadership Team

Pippa Brand-Benee
Head Teacher

Claire Osborne
Co-Deputy Head/Teaching & Learning
Year 1 Class Teacher

Abi Manly
Co-Deputy Head/PBSI

Kiran Mann-Jones Assistant Head (Currently on Maternity leave)

Sarah-Jane O’Donnell Assistant Head Early Years Reception Class Teacher

Abigail Hunter. Assistant Head SENDCO
Year 2 Class Teacher

Jason Brown
School Business
Manager

Office Staff

Jane Verney HR Manager		Julia Harris Communications Manager Attendance & Admissions Officer
Medical/Welfare Officer & Admissions Officer	Tracy Lewicki Office Assistant	Sharon Holmes Finance Assistant

Early Years Teachers/Leads

Nora Laiche
Reception Class Teacher

Betsy
Therapy Dog

Holly Roberts
Reception Class Teacher

Liane Cameron
Muddy Ducks Nursery Lead

Olivia Bourke-Smith
Muddy Ducks Pre-school Lead

Early Years Support Staff

Karen Saunders
Muddy Ducks Practitioner

Mukti Parmar
Muddy Ducks Practitioner

Sajee Gomes
Muddy Ducks Practitioner

Salma Kaosar
Muddy Ducks Practitioner (Maternity Leave)

Sumaira Khan Muddy Ducks Practitioner

Samantha Pinto Muddy Ducks Practitioner

Liam Powell Muddy Ducks Practitioner

Kalsoom Rabianni
Muddy Ducks Pre-school Practitioner

Amy Brett Muddy Ducks Pre-school Practioner

Mehroon Nawaz
Muddy Ducks Pre-school Practitioner

Stacey Wisniewski Muddy Ducks Pre-school Practitioner

Elaine Hatcher Reception Assistant Teacher

Ambrine Kalsoom
Reception HLAT

Manca Jus
Reception Assistant Teacher

Sophie Hancock Reception Assistant Teacher

KS1 Teachers

Jade Chandler
Year 1 Class Teacher

Kim Bourke-Smith
Year 1 HLAT

Claire-Louise Springett Year 1 Woneders Teacher

Megan David Year 2 Class Teacher

Anna Rymczuk
Year 2 Class Teacher

KS1 Support Staff

Tracie Chandler
Year 1 HLAT

Rebecca Slater
Year 1 Assistant Teacher (apprentice)

Norma Schofield Year 1 Assistant Teacher

Martin Harris
Year 1 Assistant Teacher

Lucy James
Year 2 Assistant Teacher

Amy Brown Year 2 Assistant Teacher

Rabia Khan Year 2 Assistant Teacher

KS2 Teachers

Jo Saw
Year 3 Class Teacher Phase 3 Lead

Sean Pearce
Year 3 Class Teacher

Lauren Laugie
Year 4 Class Teacher

Simone Schwartzel
Year 4 Class Teacher Phase 4 Lead

Dominique Barlow
Year 4 Class Teacher

Adam Jackson
Year 5 Class Teacher Phase 5 Lead

Lewis Smith
Year 5 Class Teacher

Paula Drakard
Year 6 Class Teacher Phase 6 Lead

Jamie Kwasnik
Year 6 Class Teacher

KS2 Support Staff

Dereck Brown
Year 3 HLAT

Natalie Hayes
Year 3 Assistant Teacher

Ellie Maynard
Year 4 HLAT

Dionne Barnes-Wintz
Year 4 Assistant Teacher

Lisa Slater Year 5 HLAT/SENTA

Natasha Webb
Year 5 HLAT

Michelle Wicking

Year 5 Assistant Teacher

Lindsay Sole
Year 6 HLAT

Monique McLaughlin
Year 6 Assistant Teacher

Claire Moyse
Year 6 Assistant Teacher

Additional Curriculum Teachers

Sports

Mark Lambert
Head of PE / Sports

Joanna James
MFL

Safeguarding And Nurture Team

Fay Jeffs
Co-ordinating Safeguarding Manager

Joanne Lyons
Medical/Welfare Officer

Site Maintenance Team

Phil Measey
Site Maintenance

Lesley Jones
Cleaner/Lunch Supervisor

Yvette Smith
Cleaner / Lunch Supervisor

Donna Whicker
Cleaner / Lunch Supervisor

Trisha Skinner
Cleaner / Lunch Supervisor

Midday Team

Julie White
Lunch Supervisor

Linda Eldridge
Lunch Supervisor