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Department Staff

Mr Paul Birdsall
Head of Art & Engineering

Miss Catherine Pickering
Art Teacher

Miss Sarah Leask
Art Technician

“Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse

Department Staff

Mr Paul Birdsall
Head of Art & Engineering

Mr Mark Davies
Teacher of Engineering (Head of Cuthbert House)

Dr Rebecca Fraser
Teacher of Food and Nutrition

Miss Alexandra Hall
Teacher of Engineering

Mrs Julie Read
Teacher of Design Technology

Mrs Victoria Smith
Teacher of Design Technology

Miss Laura Townend
Teacher of Design Technology

Mr Mark Wadsworth
Teacher of Engineering/Technology

Mr Alan Hughes
Engineering Technician

Miss Ann Dawson
P/T Food & Nutrition Technician

"Whatever good things we build end up building us" - Jim Rohn

Department Staff

Mrs Michelle Stevens
Head of English

Mrs Emma Ridley
Assistant Head of English

Mrs Caroline Drew
Assistant Head of English

Mrs Rachel Scott
AVP Teaching & Learning PD / Teacher of English

Mrs Rosanna Blakesley-Jones
Teaching and Learning Performance Coach

Miss Lisa Broadway
Teacher of English

Miss Courtney Butler
Teacher of English

Mr Jonathan Clarkson
Teacher of English

Mrs Phoebe Hall
Teacher of English

Mr Andrew Hutchinson
Teacher of English

Ms Alexandra Stonebanks
Teacher of English

Mrs Samantha Watson
Head Librarian

"The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean." - Robert Louis Stevenson

Department Staff

Mr John Shackleton
Head of Humanities

Mrs Helen Alan
Teacher of Geography / Mental Health Lead

Miss Jessica Ames
Teacher of History / Deputy Sendco

Miss Kia Anderson
Teacher of Humanities

Mrs Rebecca Butler
AVP Raising Standards Leader / Teacher of Geography

Mrs Hilary Caisley
Teacher of Geography

Miss Stacey Fraser
Teacher of Humanities

Mr Andrew Gendler-Watson
AVP Teaching & Learning QA / Teacher of Geography

Mr David Lloyd
AVP Head of Sixth Form / Teacher of Geography

Mrs Julie Normanton
Vice Principal Ethos & Pastoral / Teacher of Geography

Mrs Caroline Park
Teacher of History / Assistant Head of Student Welfare

Mrs Marie Richardson
Teacher of Geography

History is all explained by Geography" - Robert Penn Warren

Department Staff

Mrs Jennifer Taylor
Head of Computing & Business Studies

Mr Thomas Robinson
Subject Lead Computer Science

Mrs Claire Taylor
Teacher of ICT and Computing

“Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible.” - Alan Turing

Department Staff

Miss Sarah Hindhaugh
Head of Mathematics

Mr Andrew Sutton
Assistant Head of Mathematics

Mr Shayne Elsworth
Vice Principal Academic / Teacher of Mathematics

Mrs Sharon Maughan
Teacher of Mathematics

Mr Andrew Moore
AVP Assessment & Student Performance / Teacher of Mathematics

Mr Sam Read
AVP Pastoral / Teacher of Mathematics

Miss Emma Thompson
Teacher of Mathematics

Mrs Jun Tian
Teacher of Mathematics

Miss Elizabeth Tipper
Teacher of Mathematics

Miss Katie Pollard
Teacher of Mathematics

“Mathematics is the music of reason.” - James Joseph Sylvester

Department Staff

Mrs Melanie Armstrong
Assistant Head of Modern Foreign Languages

Mrs Michaela Jolly
Assistant Head of MFL

Mrs Elaine Jones
Teacher of MFL

Miss Elizabeth MacKinlay
Teacher of MFL

Mr Paul Sanders
Teacher of MFL

"With languages, you are at home anywhere." – Edward De Waal

Department Staff

Mrs Lauren Saul
Director of Music

Miss Beth Robinson
Teacher of Music

“Music is the shorthand of emotion.” ― Leo Tolstoy

Department Staff

Mr Simon McAree
Director of Sport

Miss Laura Street
Head of Girls’ PE / Assistant Head of Cuthbert House

Mr Thomas Atkinson
Teacher of Boys’ PE

Miss Abigail Barclay
Teacher of Girls’ PE

Miss Rachel Lee
Teacher of Girl’s PE / Head of Oswald House

Mrs Laura Stewart
Teacher of Girls’ PE / Assistant Head of Oswald House

Mr Andrew Sutherland
Head of Rugby / Assistant Head of Sixth Form

"Champions keep playing until they get it right." - Billie Jean King

Department Staff

Mr David Williams
Head of PTE

Mr Sean Harris
Assistant Head of PTE

Mr Robbie Burns
Assistant Vice Principal Primary/Teacher of PTE

Mr Alan Harrison
Teacher of PTE

Dr Stephen Roberts
Teacher of PTE

Mr Andrew Thelwell
Principal / Teacher of PTE

Miss Caitlin Tubby
Teacher of PTE

"An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge." - Proverbs 18:15

Department Staff

Dr Helen Edge
Head of Science

Mrs Jennifer Fraser
Assistant Head of Department Science

Mr Jonathan Grange
Assistant Head of Department Science (Physics)

Miss Jemma Wylie
Assistant Head of Department Science (Biology)

Mrs Rachel Attley
Teacher of Chemistry

Mr David Coulson
Teacher of Biology

Mrs Jessica Hepple
Teacher of Physics

Mr James Fisher
Teacher of Physics

Miss Kate Haley
Teacher of Biology / Assistant Head of Aiden House

Mrs Lucy Wright
Teacher of Chemistry

Mrs Natalie Winchester
Subject Lead Health & Social Care / Assistant Head of Sixth Form

Mrs Lucy Minnikin
Teacher of Health & Social Care

Mrs Lucy Ridley
Teacher of Chemistry / Head of Aiden House

Dr Craig Sams
Teacher of Science / Curriculum Leader

Mr Patrick Smith
Teacher of Physics / Assistant Vice Principal (Welfare)

Mr David Watson
Senior Science Technician

Mr Clive Wheeler
Science Technician

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” - Isaac Newton

Support Staff

Department Staff

Mrs Kirsty Carling
Finance Accountant

Miss Megan Riley
Senior Administrator

Mrs Emma Clelland
Director of Management Information Systems

Mrs Kirstie Groom
HR Officer

Mrs Kirstie Harrison
Examinations Officer

Ms Linda Hillerby
Clerical Assistant & Receptionist

Mrs Lynn Parkin
PA to the Principal (Secondary)

Mr Martin Bridges
Business and Finance Manager

Mrs Heather Watson
Clerical Assistant & Receptionist

Mrs Mary Wylie
Receptionist / Clerical Assistant

"A place for everything, everything in its place." - Benjamin Franklin

Department Staff

Mr Kyle Griffiths
Network Manager

Mr Matthew Robinson
IT Support Technician

Mr Bailey Crane
IT Support & Reprographics

Mr Daniel Sword
AV Technician

Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless." - Thomas Edison

Department Staff

Mr Alan Moore
Chef / Manager

Mr Paul Bruce
Assistant Chef

Miss Lisa Carey
Catering Assistant

Ms Eileen Dixon
Bistro Assistant

Mrs Stacey Stephenson
Catering Assistant

Mrs Susan Hale
Catering Assistant

Miss Donna Hawkins
Catering Assistant

Mrs Susan Jones
Assistant Cook

Mrs Nichola Morley
Catering Assistant

Mrs Lesley Nichol
Catering Assistant

Mrs Joanne Nicholson
Catering Assistant

Mrs Eileen Pattison
Catering Assistant

Mrs Janice Quinn
Catering Assistant

Miss Claire Slater
Catering/Cleaning Assistant

"Food is our common ground, a universal experience." - James Beard

Department Staff

Mr Gary Stokoe
Assistant Facilities Manager

Mr Stuart Taylor
Assistant Facilities Manager

Mr John Fawcett
Building Technician

Mrs Bryony Wilson
Cleaning Assistant

Mrs Pauline Bell
Cleaning Assistant

Mrs Iryna Cherkassky
Cleaning Assistant

Miss Ann Dawson
Cleaning Assistant & P/T Food & Nutrition Technician

Mrs Jacqueline Fraser
Cleaning Assistant

Mrs Andrea Gillespie
Cleaning Assistant

Mrs Victoria Hartfield
Cleaning Assistant

Mrs Stacey Hewitt
Cleaning Assistant

Mrs Angela Jefferson
Cleaning Assistant

Mrs Debora Quinn
Cleaning Assistant

Mr Robert Smith
Security Guard

Mrs Margaret Thompson
Cleaning Assistant

"Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind. " - Joseph Addison

Department Staff

Mrs Linda Johnson
Careers Advisor

Mrs Laura Davison
Higher Level Teaching Assistant

Ms Jane Jay
Learning Support Assistant

Mrs Donna Mann
Learning Support Assistant

Mrs Janice Orkney
Higher Level Teaching Assistant

Mrs Claudia Smith
Learning Support Assistant

Mrs Sarah Smith
Learning Support Assistant

Mr Daniel Forster
Apprentice Learning Support Assistant

Miss Arianne Taylor
Apprentice Learning Support Assistant

Miss Chloe Rogers
Apprentice Learning Support Assistant

Mrs Sarah Hayton
Learning Support Assistant

Mrs Vicki Graham
Learning Support Assistant

Miss Melissa Rigg
Learning Support Assistant

Miss Jennifer Gee
Learning Support Assistant

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” - Albert Einstein

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Curlew Way
Blyth
Northumberland
NE24 3PX

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Blyth
Northumberland
NE24 2SY

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