Building the Team

We have had a real focus on staff recruitment over the last month, and

we have read through over 1000 applications from potential staff, finally we are almost there! 

Since I last wrote, Facilities Manager David Ashley and Assistant Head Teacher Beth Humphreys have come on board. Beth has overall responsibility for performance management, CPD as well as English.

Beth is an English specialist who has spent her teaching career to date in inner London schools: at Aylwin Girls' School, Harris Academy Bermondsey and City of London Academy. In addition to leading in her own subject area, especially at KS5, she has led on student leadership and literacy across the curriculum. She was the Lead Practitioner on a DCFS project, the Transatlantic Schools Innovation Alliance, partnering schools in London with schools in New York to share best practice and improve adolescent literacy.

She achieved a distinction in her MA in Leadership at the Institute of Education where her dissertation focussed on the leadership of brand new start-up academies. She is also on the board of the College of Teachers.