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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) 2024-25

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)
Mr T Ramsbottom	Senior Assistant Headteacher (Teaching and Learning)
Miss T Douglas	Assistant Headteacher (SENDCo)
Mr J Hardy	Assistant Headteacher (Literacy)
Ms S Sharp	Assistant Headteacher (Head of KS3)
Mr J Wood	Assistant Headteacher (Raising Achievement Leader)
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 Miss Kuipers as Head of Year 7, Mrs Mitchell, Head of Year 8 and Mr Curtis, Head of Year 9 in charge of the individual year groups.

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

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

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Information about our Sixth Form

Deputy Heads of Year

Year group	Name
Deputy Head of Year 7	Mr B Lofthouse
Deputy Head of Year 8	Mr C Robson-Close
Deputy Head of Year 9	Mr P Edo
Deputy Head of Year 10	Miss V Anderson
Deputy Head of Year 11	Miss C Stubbs

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 Talaxy). 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 student services.

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 and Mr C Elsmore 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, Mrs A Malik (supply)
Citizenship	Mrs T Moore	Various
Computing	Mr N Moore	Mr D Rochester, 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 S Cooper (maternity cover), Mrs K Cox, Mrs L Cresswell, Mrs E Davis, Mrs S Everall, Ms S Ghumran (Supply), Mrs C Harvey, Mrs S Ironside (KS3 Coordinator - Y9), Mrs N Isaacson (on maternity leave), Mrs C Jackson, Mr J Lawes, Mrs S Lawson, Ms J Price, Miss S Suleman, Mrs A Sweetlove, Miss C Whyte, Mrs H Wright (KS4 Coordinator), Mrs S Yusuf
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	Mrs E Crouch	Miss G Chaudhry, Miss J Corry, Miss C Lamy, Mr D Marshall, Ms A Raeburn, Ms M Richards, Ms S Sharp
Mathematics	Mr C Noakes	Mrs M Boughton, Mrs A Chadwick, Mr R Davies (Supply), 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, Mrs K Miles, 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 A Ospina Valencia, Ms J Price, Mrs N Wood
Media Studies	Mr J Lawes	Mrs H Batchelor
Music	Mr A Fowles	Mr T Lowe, Miss H Mitchell, Mr J Wood, 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 B McEvoy, Mr D Mackie (Director of Sport), Mr C Robson-Close
Politics	Ms J Fleming-Wall	Ms C Lamy
Psychology	Mr A Frith
Religious Studies, and Philosophy and Ethics	Mr C Gangemi	Dr D Beadle, Miss M Bidwell, Miss P Dashwood (on maternity leave), Mr B Lofthouse, Mr J Kennedy (supply), Mrs T Moore, Mrs L Ojikutu, Mrs E Papanastasiou, 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, Ms C Wadsworth (supply) Mrs R Warner, Mrs M Yerrell
Sociology	Mr D Marshall	Ms J Fleming-Wall
SEND	SENDCo - Miss T Douglas	Assistant SENDCo - Miss F Milton 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)
BaSS team	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
Student Services	Mrs P Potter (Student Services 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