School Staff 2009/2010
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We have an excellent team of staff here at Merryhills. Any specific questions you have about your child’s education should first be directed to his/her teacher. However, we are all available to answer your general enquiries.
Leadership and Management Team
- Kim Stephenson – Headteacher
- Fiona Greenley – Assistant Headteacher (curriculum)
- Michelle Motley – Assistant Headteacher (pastoral)
- Nicole Gardiner – Senior Teacher
- Linda Brockhurst – School Business Manager
Reception
- Sharon Palmer – Class Teacher
- Georgina Nissiforou – Nursery Nurse
- Sunny Skolfield – Class Teacher
- Danielle Smith – Early Years Practitioner
- Samantha Stevenson* – Teaching Assistant (part time)
- Debbie Thomas – Nursery Nurse (part-time)
Y1
- Karen Da Costa* – Class Teacher
- Greta Carrington – Teaching Assistant
- Emma Sheffield – Class Teacher
- Sue Goldhawk* – Teaching Assistant
Y2
- Duncan Wheeler – Class Teacher (part time)
- Fiona Cattlin – Class Teacher (part time)
- Trish Rogers – Teaching Assistant
- Jenny Poll – Class Teacher
- Janet Lockwood – Teaching Assistant
Y3
- Bethany Cooper – Class Teacher
- Kathy Ingram – Teaching Assistant
- Michelle Harmon* – Class Teacher
- Pauline Bettles – Teaching Assistant (part-time)
Y4
- Barbara Comley – Class Teacher & Strategies Leader
- Louise Jackson – Teaching Assistant (part-time)
- Sam Powell – Graduate Teacher
- Chloe Clifford – Class Teacher
- Maureen Woods* – Teaching Assistant
Y5
- Caroline Ginty – Class Teacher
- Mary Organ* – Teaching Assistant (part time)
- Mark Berry* – Teaching Assistant (part time)
- Clare Davies – Class Teacher
- Mark Healy– Teaching Assistant
Y6
- Nicole Gardiner – Class Teacher & Team Leader
- Jackie Griffin* – Teaching Assistant (part time)
- Joy Bebbington – Class Teacher
- Michelle McNeill – Teaching Assistant
Administrative & Premises Staff
- Carol Berry* – Welfare Officer
- Sue Husson* – Managed Learning Environment and Resources Manager (School Website)
- Pat Lowe – Admin Officer ( School Meals and Finance)
- Marie Ray – Admin Officer (Pupil Attendance and Admissions
- Alison Plumer – ICT Technician
- Geoff Udall – Site Manager
Breakfast Team
- Donna Smith
- Di Shaw*
- Sharon Barnes*
- Angie Sanders*
Lunchtime Team
- Mary Organ* (team leader)
- Angie Sanders*
- Maria Hoare
- Di Shaw*
- Kalpana Parasinghe
- Donna Smith
- Leni Slovick
- Theresa McNeill*
- Sam Stevenson*
- Helena Georgiou
- Tina Stylianou
- Sharon Barnes*
- Jackie Griffin*
- Helen Elliott
- Mark Berry*
Teatime Team
- Michelle Harmon*
- Carol Berry*
- Di Shaw*
- Theresa McNeill*
- Sue Husson*
- Maureen Woods*
- Trish Rogers*
- Karen Da Costa*
- Sue Goldhawk*
- Janet Lockwood*
- Mark Berry*
Additional Teaching Staff
- Monica Soria Gomez– Teacher (part-time)
- Kim Avdji – Teacher (part-time)
- Lucy Anastasi – Teacher (part time))
- Demi Tofallis – Teacher (part-time)
SEN support team
- Fiona Smith – SEN Mentor
- Kathy Ingram – Speech and Language Lead
- Michelle Richards- SEN Specialist
Curriculum Team
- Joy Bebbington – The Arts
- Barbara Comley – English, Communication and Languages
- Clare Davies – Mathematical Understanding
- Nicole Gardiner – ICT and Managed Learning Environment
- Caroline Ginty – Scientific and Social Understanding
- Katie King (on maternity leave) – Physical Development, Health and Wellbeing
- Sharon Palmer – Early Learning Development and Personalisation
*Staff names marked with an * work in more than one class or have more than one role in school.
Trainee teachers
Every year we welcome trainees to the school and we have developed close links with Middlesex University, Enfield and Barnet Colleges and local secondary schools. We have a Training Partner award from LoNoCo, the London North Consortium who co-train our graduate teachers. Helping to train teachers in this way provides professional development opportunities for our staff, keeps us up to date with current educational practice and allows us to ‘grow our own’ teachers. Trainee teachers are always carefully monitored by the school to ensure continuity for the children. If you have any questions about teacher training at Merryhills please make an appointment to see the Headteacher.
Security and Safety
We aim to provide a secure environment for pupils and staff but we need your help. When you visit school during the day, please use the main entrance only. All visitors are required to sign in at the office on all visits to school.
We have a continual problem with some parents who park on the zigzag lines near the school entrances. Please remember that parking on these lines is not permitted at the beginning and end of the day. Parents are reminded that the car park is for staff use only unless you are a blue badge holder.
As a Healthy School, we promote walking to school and children are very pleased to receive their WOW (Walk Once a Week) badges. Please walk to and from school with your child, as this will benefit everyone, including yourself.
Complaints Process
We hope that your child will have a very happy and rewarding time at Merryhills, but occasionally something might go wrong. If you have any concerns about your child’s education you should first talk to their class teacher who should be able to resolve the matter. If, however, you are still not satisfied you should speak to one of the Assistant Heads to see if they can resolve the difficulty, and if that fails speak directly to the Headteacher.
We have a written complaints process, which is available from the school office and includes information about contacting the Chair of Governors and/or Local Authority.