Staff Information

Here is a list of our Senior Leadership Team and Heads of Year. Heads of Department/course Leaders can be found under curriculum staff.

To see the school middle leaders who's who - click here

Senior Leadership Team (SLT) 2025-26

Name

Role

Mr A Powell

Headteacher

Mr A Saunders

Deputy Headteacher (Curriculum) and Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL)

Mr N Blount

Deputy Headteacher (Pastoral)

Mr T Ramsbottom

Senior Assistant Headteacher (Teaching and Learning)

Mr L Ali

Assistant Headteacher (KS4)

Miss T Douglas

Assistant Headteacher (SENDCo)

Mr J Hardy

Assistant Headteacher (Literacy)

Mr D Mackie

Assistant Headteacher (Extra Curriculum)

Ms S Sharp

Assistant Headteacher (Head of KS3)

Mrs A Woodroofe

Assistant Headteacher (Head of KS5)

Mrs V Lygo-Baker

School Business Manager


Heads of Year

Parents will be aware that we take pride in the caring nature of the St Bede’s ethos. The first port of call for any problem is your child’s tutor, but we have a senior team of staff who oversee the pastoral work of the school. The first three years, key stage 3 (KS3) of the school are overseen by Assistant Headteacher, Ms Sharp, with Mr Edo (Head of Year 7), Miss Kuipers (Head of Year 8) and Mrs Mitchell (Head of Year 9) in charge of the individual year groups.

Ks3 team

At key stage 4 (KS4), Assistant Headteacher, Mr Ali is in charge overall, with Mr Curtis, Head of Year 10 and Mrs Harvey, Head of Year 11. 

Ks4 team


In Years 12 and 13, Head of Sixth Form, Mrs Woodroofe is assisted by Mrs Wood, Head of Year 12 and Ms Fleming-Wall, Head of Year 13.

Ks5 team

Information about our Sixth Form

Deputy Heads of Year

Year group

Name

Deputy Head of Year 7

Ms C Stubbs

Deputy Head of Year 8

Mr B Lofthouse

Deputy Head of Year 9

Mrs L Perello

Deputy Head of Year 10

Mr L Adams

Deputy Head of Year 11

Ms S Suleman

Curriculum Staff

To email one of your child's teachers, please use their staff code from your child's printed timetable - ??@st-bedes.surrey.sch.uk from your personal email account (that we hold on Bromcom). Students must email staff from their school Google account.

Please check that your Bromcom emails are not going into your junk/spam.

All parents/carers of current students should register to use Bromcom/MyChildAtSchool as this is a significant means of communication between school and home. If you have not already set up your account, use the Contact form to send a registration request to student services.

Information about parents' evenings, pupil reports, attendance and behaviour records are available on MyChildAtSchool.

MyChildAtSchool or via the link under 'Parents' at the top of this web page. 


Curriculum staff

If you would like to make contact, please put a note in the student's diary or to contact the form tutor, please 'contact the school' (choose 'Main Reception' from the drop-down) outlining who to direct the message to.

Department Head of department (HOD) Department staff

Art

Ms S Petri

Mrs L Borgia, Ms H Button and Mr C Elsmore

Department technician: Mrs K King

Business and Economics

Mr D Wilkinson

Mr W Glover, Mr R Johnson, Mr A Laing, Mrs A Malik, Mr T Ramsbottom, Mr A Saunders

Citizenship

Mrs T Moore

Various

Computing

Mr N Moore 

Dr M Sacramento, Mx J Salmon

Drama

Mrs L Downes

Mrs C Harvey, Mrs L Lawrence, Mrs L Perello

Design and Technology 

Ms R Haines Gilbertson (KS3/4)

Mrs R Benjamin-Hoppie, Mrs N Carloss, Mr R Downer, Mrs J Tyrrell-Baldwin

Department technician: Mr C Rainger

English

Mrs H Batchelor

Mrs S Cooper (maternity cover), Mrs K Cox, Mrs L Cresswell, Mrs E Davis, Mrs S Everall,  Mrs C Harvey, Ms S Ghumran, Mrs S Ironside (KS3 Coordinator), Mrs N Isaacson, Mrs C Jackson, Mr J Lawes, Mrs S Lawson, Miss M Luebke, Miss S Suleman, Mrs A Sweetlove, Miss C Whyte, Mrs H Wright (KS4 Coordinator) and Mrs S Yusuf (both on maternity leave)

Food and Health

Mrs J Shepherd

Ms V Anderson, Mrs R Benjamin-Hoppie (Course Leader Health & Social Care), Ms R Grey-Graham, Mrs R Horswill

Department technician: Mrs K King

Geography

Mr G Collman

Ms F Carr, Miss H Jones, Miss A Maile, Mr P Kerr

History

Miss G Chaudhry

Miss J Corry, Miss C Lamy (KS3 Co-Ordinator), Mr D Marshall, Mr B O'Neill, Mr J Purkiss (maternity cover), Ms M Richards, Ms S Sharp.    Mrs E Crouch is on maternity leave.

Mathematics

Mr C Noakes

Mrs M Boughton, Mrs A Chadwick, Mr A Coleman, Mr P Edo-Okaeben, Mrs N Findlay, Mr A Hussain, Mr R Kreuchen (KS3 Co-Ordinator), Mr A Lacey, Miss E Lush, Mrs A Maazouz, Ms H Needler (KS5 Co-Ordinator), Mr O Plank (KS4 Co-Ordinator), Mrs T Powell, Mrs S Richardson, Ms R Sturt, Mr R Tracey

Modern Foreign Languages (MFL)

Mr D Mason

Mr G Gomez Romero, Ms H Hibberd, Miss A Kuipers, Mrs N Martinez-Wallas (Course Leader of German), Mrs N Neil, Mrs A Ospina Valencia, Mrs N Wood

Media Studies

Mr J Lawes

Mrs H Batchelor

Music

Mr A Fowles

Mr L Ali, Mr T Lowe, Miss H Mitchell, Mrs A Woodroofe

Photography and Textiles

Mr C Elsmore

Miss V Anderson, Ms H Button, Mrs R Horswill and Mrs S Petri.

Department technician: Mrs K King

Physical Education

Mrs S Saunders

Mr L Adams, Mr N Blount, Mrs S Collins, Mr T Curtis, Mrs M Edy (KS5 Coordinator), Mr D Mackie (Director of Sport), Mr B McEvoy, Mr C Robson-Close, Mr M Tang

Politics

Ms J Fleming-Wall

Ms C Lamy

Psychology

Mr A Frith

 

Religious Studies, and Philosophy and Ethics

Mr C Gangemi

Miss M Bidwell, Ms D Cowan, Mr J Kennedy (supply), Mr B Lofthouse, Mrs T Moore, Mrs L Ojikutu, Mrs E Papanastasiou (on maternity leave), Mrs H Persaud, Mrs P Robinson, Mrs K Thomas

Science

Mrs D Read

Mr S Brooks, Dr V Dargue, Mrs E Failes, Mrs S Hannah, Mrs S Harwood, Mrs S Jackson, Mrs N Kalam, Miss C Maglio, Mr A Mander, Dr S Menezes, Mr P Rolaston, Miss L Sharif (supply) Miss C Stubbs, Ms K Usher, Ms C Wadsworth, Mrs R Warner, Mrs M Yerrell

Sociology

Mr D Marshall

Ms J Fleming-Wall

SEND

SENDCo - Miss T Douglas

 

Assistant SENDCo:         Mr C Robson-Close

SEND Support Leads:     Mrs G Atkins, Mrs T Gear, Mrs W Longo, Miss R Stevenson and Mrs M Taylor

SpLD Tutor & Access Arrangement Assessor:  Mrs A Leach

SEND Support Administrator:   Miss A Fuller

 

Behaviour and Student Support (BaSS) Team and support staff

Role

Name

BaSS team

Miss A Eland (BaSS Team Manager) 
Mrs S Arthur (Lead Intervention Support Officer)

Mrs B Graham and Mrs P Nicholson (Student Support Officers)

Cover Supervisors

Ms J Biswas, Mr A England, Ms J Maynard, Mrs S Pingali, Mrs J Villarreal Plata and Mrs H Ward

Careers Lead

Mrs G Twigg

Student Services

Mrs V Sanford (Student Services Manager); Mrs P Finnigan and Mrs J Winfield-Reed (front desk); Mrs J Gosling (Medical Records Administrator); Mrs K Basdeo and Mrs V Hart (Attendance Officers)

Library staff

Mrs K Hill (Manager),  Mrs I Bressler, Mr A England and Mx A Maton

Communications and Marketing

Mrs C Burden