Who’s Who

Staffing 2024

Come and meet the staff at our wonderful school:

Reception 

Miss Duffy teaches in our Foundation Class. She is assisted by Mrs Clark and Mrs Normington. 

Mrs Shelton also teaches RE in Reception each Tuesday afternoons. She is in charge of Computing across our school. 

Mrs Capaldi leads early reading interventions across school to get all our children off to a flying start! She is our DT leader. She works on Mondays and Tuesdays. 

Year 1

Mrs Coldman and Mrs Gledhill teach Year 1. They are very well supported through the day by both Mrs Cecil and Mrs Hennigan. 

Mrs Coldman leads Art and Mrs Gledhill is our Early Reading Leader. 

Year 2

Mrs Reuben teaches our Year 2 class. Mrs Reuben leads Science. Year 2 are helped each day by Mrs Cook. Miss Taylor leads the teaching of Maths in Year 2 every morning. 

Year 3

Mrs Barton and Mrs Nicholson teach our Year 3 class. They are very well assisted each day by Mrs Johnson and Mrs Gallagher. Mrs Barton is our English Leader and Mrs Nicholson is our SENCO.  

Year 4

Miss Peacey teaches our Year 4 class ably assisted by Mrs Lee. She leads our Maths and MFL in school.

Year 5  

Mr Cook teaches Year 5. He is assisted by Mrs Caley. He is an ECT2. 

Year 6

Miss Staunton Sykes teaches our Year 6 children. Year 6 have support from Mrs Leatham. Miss Staunton Sykes leads Music across school. Some children will be taught maths each day by Mr Whittle (our deputy headteacher). Some children will be taught English each day by Mr Kearney (Our PE Teacher). Mr Kearney teaches and leads PE throughout school. 

Our Curriculum Leadership Team comprises Miss Leonard, Mr Whittle and Miss Taylor who support all our curriculum leaders across school. 

Miss Taylor (our Assistant Headteacher) leads our ITT, RE, RSE and supports our Senior Leadership Team.

Mr Whittle (our Deputy Headteacher) is our RE leader in school, and takes a lead in assessment and curriculum alongside the headteacher. He helps Miss Leonard and our SLT to lead our wonderful school. Mr Whittle leads CPLD across our partnership and within our school, ensuring well trained staff remain at the heart of our school. Mr Whittle is also our First Aider. 

Miss Leonard is our Headteacher. She leads on Child Protection, Geography, Health and Safety, Educational Visits, Curriculum, Standards and leads our St Anthony's Primary Learning Partnership. She is a National Leader of Education. 

Mrs Goodwin provides additional teaching capacity across school as she returns from maternity leave this Spring. 

Mrs Doherty runs our Rainbow Room and supports in our busy school office. She assists pupils to have beautiful behaviour in school. 

Mrs Grosvenor is our School Business Manager and leads our school office. She is also our First Aider. 

Mr Sharpe is our caretaker. He is very well supported by Mrs Connor who cleans our school so beautifully.

Mr Bove also works at our school as our personal assistant for the Teaching School. He works Monday to Thursdays. 

External providers: 

Mr Leach  is our choral director and works with our chamber choir and our Year 2 class each Tuesday.

Mr Rowe is our ukulele teacher who works with our LKS2 pupils each Wednesday morning.

Father Whitwell is our parish priest and we visit him regularly in his role leading us in our faith.