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Our Staff & Governors

Staff

Name Role
Claire Rigden Head Teacher and designated safeguarding lead.
Martin Cumming Assistant head teacher, Inclusion lead and deputy safeguarding lead.
Kathryn Parry Teacher of the Kingfisher and Puffin group.
Sarah Lomas Little owl's/ERP group lead, mental health and wellbeing lead and deputy safeguarding lead.
Jane Samuels Teaching assistant.
Kath Wilkinson Teaching assistant.
Fiona Woods Teaching assistant.
Helen Grady Teaching assistant.
Amanda Willoughby Little Owl's/ERP Practitioner.
Donna Lancaster Teaching assistant and dinner friend.
Lauren Lomas Little Owl's/ERP Practitioner, teaching assistant, dinner friend and wrap around worker.
Jacqui Barnett Teaching assistant, speech and language specialism.
Abigail Foster Teaching assistant, dinner friend and wrap around worker.
Chloe Dale Teaching assistant, play worker and dinner friend.

Debbie Elsworth

Wrap around manager, teaching assistant and deputy safeguarding lead.

Rachel Wright

Dinner friend.

Jayne Cook  Wrap around worker.

Vicky Leary

Dinner friend and wrap around worker.

Kay Pearson  Dinner friend.
Michelle Graaby Dinner friend.
Nicola Jolly Business Manager.
Karen Bregg Finance assistant.

Gemma Oldfield 

Administrative assistant.

Andrea Holden School cook.
Mick Dowker Site manager

Governors

Name Category
Claire Rigden Headteacher
Siobhan McGrellis Co-opted Chair of Governors
Martin Cumming Staff Governor
Vacancy Local Authority governor
Vacancy Parent Governor
Vacancy Parent governor
Julia Hedley-Jones Vice Chair
Sarah Lomas Co-opted Staff
Vacancy Co-opted
Jennifer Harbertson Co-opted

All governors minutes (barring confidential items) are available on request. Please email the school office to request. See below for the register of attendance for the last academic year and the policy page for governor declaration of interest forms:

 

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​“St Paul’s is not a school, it is a family”

12 St Paul’s Square, Holgate, York, YO24 4BD

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