Meet Our Team

The ‘S’ in our BIRDS philosophy represents us as Scholars: it states that we grow our brain every minute of every day and understand that we learn from our mistakes.

Children consider their teachers as ‘ready made’. We like to remind them that we aren’t. We were young once… we couldn’t read once… we couldn’t talk or walk once just like them. We couldn’t do long division once and sometimes we even got in trouble with our teachers!

But we were Scholars and through our commitment to learning, our grit and resilience to pursue all the opportunities given to us we reached our dreams: it was really hard but we did it… and we’re still learning.

We want to remind our children that we were once little scholars; so here we are!

Senior Leadership Team

Pippa Brand-Benee
Head Teacher

Claire Osborne
Co-Deputy Head/Teaching & Learning
Year 1 Class Teacher

Abi Manly
Co-Deputy Head/PBSI

Kiran Mann-Jones Assistant Head

Sarah-Jane O’Donnell Assistant Head Early Years Reception Class Teacher

Abigail Hunter. Assistant Head SENDCO
Year 2 Class Teacher

Office Staff

Jane Verney HR Manager	Jason Brown Finance & Operations Manager	Julia Harris Communications Manager Attendance & Admissions Officer
Medical/Welfare Office & Admissions Officer	Tracy Lewicki Office Assistant	Sharon Holmes Finance Assistant

Early Years Teachers/Leads

Nora Laiche Reception Class Teacher	Betsy Therapy Dog	Holly Roberts Reception Class Teacher
Liane Cameron Muddy Ducks Nursery Lead		Samantha Turvey Muddy Ducks Pre-school Lead
	Early Years Support Staff
Mehroon Nawaz Muddy Ducks Practitioner	Mukti Parmar Muddy Ducks Practitioner	Karen Saunders Muddy Ducks Practitioner
Salma Kaosar Muddy Ducks Practitioner	Sajee Gomes Muddy Ducks Practitioner	Rachael Bentley Muddy Ducks Practitioner
Kalsoom Rabianni Muddy Ducks Pre-school Practitioner	Olivia Bourke-~Smith Muddy Ducks Pre-school Practitioner	Keren Battison Muddy Ducks Pre-school Practitioner
	Stacey Wisniewski Muddy Ducks Pre-school Practitioner
Elaine Hatcher Reception Assistant Teacher	Ambrine Kalsoom Reception Assistant Teacher	Manca Jus Reception Assistant Teacher
	Rebecca Slater Reception Assistant Teacher (apprentice)