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) 2023-2024

Name

Role

Mr A Powell

Headteacher

Mr A Saunders

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

Mr N Blount

Deputy Headteacher (Pastoral/Head of KS4)

Mrs S Hudson

Assistant Headteacher (Head of KS3)

Mrs A Woodroofe

Assistant Headteacher (Head of Sixth Form)

Mrs E Batterbee

Assistant Headteacher (Currently on Maternity Leave)

Mr J Wood

Assistant Headteacher (Raising achievement leader)

Mr T Ramsbottom

Assistant Headteacher (Teaching and learning)

Miss T Douglas

Assistant Headteacher (SENDCo)

Mr J Hardy

Assistant Headteacher

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 Mrs Hudson with Ms Sharp as Head of Year 7, Mr Mason, Head of Year 8 and Mrs Harvey, Head of Year 9 in charge of the individual year groups.

Heads of year for website

At key stage 4 (KS4), Deputy Headteacher, Mr Blount is in charge overall, with Mrs Wood, Head of Year 10 and Miss Kuipers, Head of Year 11. 

Heads of year 10 11 for website


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

Heads of sixth form for website

Information about our Sixth Form

Deputy Heads of Year

Year group

Name

Deputy Head of Year 7

Mr C Robson-Close

Deputy Head of Year 8

Miss H Mitchell

Deputy Head of Year 9

Ms V Anderson

Deputy Head of Year 10

Miss C Stubbs

Deputy Head of Year 11

Mr B Lofthouse

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. Students must email staff from their school Google account.

Messages sent home via Talaxy email can also be found in your child's Talaxy account. Please check that your Talaxy emails are not going into your junk/spam.

All parents/carers of current students should register to use Talaxy 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 the SIMS office.

Information about parents' evenings, pupil reports, attendance and behaviour records are available through Talaxy .

Talaxy can be accessed here 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 (maternity leave), Mr C Elsmore, Ms J Mills

Department technician: Mrs K King

Business and Economics

Mr D Wilkinson

Mr W Glover, Mrs S Hudson, Mr R Johnson, Mr T Ramsbottom, Mr A Saunders

Citizenship

Mrs T Moore

Various

Computing

Mr D Rochester (Acting HOD)

Dr M Sacramento, Mx J Salmon

Drama

Mrs L Downes

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 E Batterbee (maternity leave), Mrs S Cooper, Mrs K Cox, Mrs L Cresswell, Mrs E Davis, Ms C Harvey, Mrs D Hayward, Mrs S Ironside (KS3 Coordinator - Y9), Mrs N Isaacson (maternity leave), Mrs C Jackson, Miss H Johnson (KS4 Coordinator), Mr J Lawes, Mrs S Lawson, Miss K Meechan, Miss S Suleman, Ms A Sweetlove, Miss C Whyte, Mrs S Yusuf

Food and Health

Mrs J Shepherd

Ms V Anderson, Mrs R Benjamin-Hoppie, Ms R Grey-Graham, Mrs R Horswill

Department technician: Mrs K King

Geography

Miss A Maile (Acting)

Ms F Carr, Miss H Jones, Mr P Kerr

History

Mrs E Crouch (maternity)

Miss G Chaudhry (Acting)

Miss J Corry, Miss C Lamy, Mr D Marshall, Ms M Richards, Ms S Sharp

Mathematics

Mr C Noakes

Ms E Ball (KS4 Coordinator), Mrs M Boughton, Mrs A Chadwick, Mr P Edo-Okaeben, Mrs N Findlay, Mr R Kreuchen, Mr A Lacey, Miss E Lush, Mrs A Maazouz, Mrs K Miles, Ms H Needler (KS3 Coordinator), Mr O Plank, Mrs T Powell, Mrs S Richardson, Ms R Sturt, Mr R Tracey

Modern Foreign Languages (MFL)

Mrs M Kelly

Mr G Gomez Romero, Miss A Kuipers, Mr D Mason, Mrs A Ospina Valencia, Mrs G White, Mrs N Wood

Media Studies

Mr J Lawes

Mrs H Batchelor

Music

Miss H Mitchell

Mr A Fowles, Mr T Lowe, Mr J Wood, Mrs A Woodroofe

Photography and Textiles

Mr C Elsmore

Miss V Anderson, Ms H Button (maternity), Mrs R Horswill, Mrs S Petri

Department technician: Mrs K King

Physical Education

Mrs S Saunders

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

Politics

Mr L Tattershall

Ms J Fleming-Wall

Psychology

Mr A Frith

 

Religious Studies, and Philosophy and Ethics

Mr C Gangemi

Dr D Beadle, Miss M Bidwell, Ms V Brown, Miss P Dashwood (maternity leave), Mr B Lofthouse, Mrs T Moore, Mrs L Ojikutu, Mrs D Parsk, Mrs H Persaud

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 C Stubbs, Ms K Usher, Mrs R Warner, Mrs M Yerrell

Sociology

Mr D Marshall

Ms J Fleming-Wall

SENDCo

SENDCo - Miss T Douglas

SEND support leads: Mrs G Atkins, Mrs T Gear, Mrs W Longo, Miss R Stevenson, Mrs M Taylor

SEND support administrative assistant: Mrs A Leach

 

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

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

Careers Lead

Mrs G Twigg

SIMS office

Mrs P Potter (SIMS Office Manager); Mrs P Finnigan and Mrs J Gosling, Mrs J Winfield-Reed (front of house); Mrs J Lukacova (attendance officer); Mrs L White (sixth form attendance officer)

Library staff

Mrs K Hill, Mrs I Bressler, Mr A England and Mrs J Shakhov

Communications and Marketing

Mrs C Burden