Meet the Team
Chris Smith
Role within the teaching school: Headteacher
Areas of expertise: Assessment, curriculum development, deployment of Pupil Premium and strategic leadership and Partnerships.
What I love about teaching: Making a difference and securing the best possible outcomes for all our students, regardless of their background.
Pam Taylor
Role within the teaching school: Teaching School Link Trustee
Areas of expertise: Teaching and Learning, developing partnerships, talent-spotting and succession planning.
What I love about teaching: Each day brings a fresh challenge and an opportunity to engage with new students and teachers which is both energising and very rewarding.
Andrea Taylor
Role within the Teaching School: Director of Teaching School / ITE Lead
Areas of expertise: Professional Development, ITE, Research and Development, Teaching and Learning.
What I love about teaching: I love teaching because I love learning. I have a keen interest in the process of learning and how we can harness the best that is known about effective teaching to improve outcomes for children. I love a challenge and I love that every day is different
Emma Freyd
Role within Teaching School: Teaching School Coordinator
Areas of expertise: Coordination of NQT Appropriate body, event management, recruitment, communications.
What I love about teaching school: Meeting new people and witnessing teachers progress in their career to reach their goals.
James Siddle
Role within teaching school: Deputy Headteacher, NQT Appropriate Body Lead, NPQML /SL trainer.
Areas of expertise: Leadership development, NQT induction tutor, curriculum development for MFL faculty, coaching and mentoring
What I love about teaching: Fostering good relationships with young people and encouraging them to be more than they think they can be
Neil Dixon
Role within the teaching school: Director of Research and Development, Science SLE
Areas of Expertise: Research, Coaching and Mentoring, Science Curriculum Development and Accreditation
What I love about teaching: The thought that today might be the day in which something I say or do sticks with a student for the rest of their life
Chris Giles
Role within teaching school: Coordinator of Aspiring Middle Leaders/Middle Leaders programme, Level 3 IEC Coach, RE SLE, SLE trainer.
Areas of expertise: Coaching and RE support, specifically curriculum development.
What I love about teaching: Encouraging students to think critically and philosophically about life, the universe and everything!