Meet Our Teams
In addition to our individual teams within schools, we have an executive and central team within the Trust, along with school based leaders who work in and across our schools in a range of subject and project areas which are flexible to meet the needs of our schools. Many of our Head Teachers have an area of expertise which they lead on across our Trust, meaning that we truly are a family of schools who support each other ‘to be the best we can be’.
Executive Leadership Team
Sharron Philpot
Chief Executive Officer
Ian Kirby
Chief Operating Officer
Kate Tewley
Director of Education (School Improvement, Community and Compliance)
Hayley Mapp
Director of Education (People, Inclusion and Innovation)
Education Core Services Team
Non-Education Core Services Team
DIreCTOR of Teaching, Learning, Curriculum & Assessment
Tom Hull (From September 2026)
DIreCTOR of Behaviour, safegaurding & compliaNce
Grace Castle (From September 2026)
DIreCTOR of CPD
Louise Fowler
DIreCTOR of SEND
Catherine Medhurst
Education Welfare Officer
Vicky Clarke
SUBJECT AND PROJECT SPECIFIC ASSOCIATE
LEADER
Head of Finance
Joe Tewley
Head of HR
Bal Bains
Head of IT
Richard Barnett
Head of Estates
Chris Masters
deputy head of Estates
Chris Bonner
Governance Professional
Andy Chell
Finance Team
Jake Rackham
Katie Taylor
Shakirah Ghaffar