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

Headteacher

Claire Osborne
Co- Deputy Head/Teaching and learning

Year 1 Teacher

Abi Manly

Co-Deputy Head/PBSI

Kiran Mann-Jones
Assistant Head
Year 2 teacher

Abigail Hunter
Assistant Head
SENDCO/Year 4 Teacher

Office

Jane Verney HR Co-ordinator	Jason Brown Finance & Operations Manager	Julia Harris Communications Manager Attendance Officer
Medical & Admissions Officer	Tracy Lewicki Reception Assistant	Sharon Holmes Finance Assistant

Early Years

Sarah-Jane O’Donnell EYFS Lead	Betsie Therapy Dog	Holly Roberts Reception Class Teacher
Liane Cameron Muddy Ducks Nursery Teacher	Anna Salmon Pre-school Teacher	Nora Laiche Reception Class Teacher
Kalsoom Rabbani Muddy Ducks Practitioner	Samantha Turvey Muddy Ducks Practitioner	Karen Saunders Muddy Ducks Practitioner
Rabia Ajaz Pre-school Teaching Assistant	Sophia Burney Pre-school Teaching Assistant	Mukti Parmar Muddy Ducks Practitioner
Sajee Gomez Muddy Ducks Practitioner	Nursery Practitioner Pre-school Teaching Assistant	Keren Chioco Muddy Ducks Practitioner (Maternity Leave)
Elaine Hatcher Reception Teaching assistant	Ambrine Kalsoom Reception Teaching Assistant	Liv Bourke-Smith Reception Teaching Assistant

KS1

Jade Chandler Year 1 Teacher		Dominique Barlow Year 2 Teacher
Norma Schofield Year 1 Teaching Assistant	Carla Sousa Year 2 Teaching Assistant	Tracie Chandler Year 1 Teaching Assistant
Samal Kaosar Year 2 Teaching Assistant	Kim Bourke-Smith Higher Level Teaching Assistant	Lucy James Year 2 Teaching Assistant
Rose Mcnulty Year 1 Teaching Assistant	Manca Jus Year 1 Teaching Assistant

KS2

Jo Saw Year 3 Class Teacher	Emily Cook Year 3 Teacher	Abigail Hunter Year 4 Class Teacher	Lauren Laugie Year 4 Teacher
Simone Schwartzel Year 5 Teacher	Sean Pearce Year 5/6 Phase leader	Paula Drakard Year 6 Class Teacher
Jamie Kwasnik Year 6 Class Teacher	Jacqui Smith Year 3 Teaching Assistant	Stacey Wisniewski Year 3 Teaching Assistant
Claire Moyse Year 4 Teaching Assistant	Dionne Barnes-Wintz Year 4 Teaching Assistant	Dereck Brown Year 5 HLTA
Ellie Maynard Year 5 Teaching Assistant	Lisa Slater SENCO Assistant/Year 5 HLTA	Lindsay Sole Year 6 HLTA
Monique Mclaughlin Year 6 Teaching Assistant