The Senior Leadership Team’s Roles and Responsibilities
Mr D Mackenzie
Headteacher / Executive Leader
Core Role
To provide clear strategic direction and effective management and be accountable for all aspects of the school’s performance.
Key Responsibilities
- All students and staff
- Strategic direction of the school and the Trust
- Quality education framework
- Overall success and reputation of the school
- Compliance with statutory framework
Miss N Sullivan
Senior Deputy Headteacher
Core Role
To deputise for the Headteacher in his absence and have operational oversight of all routines, rotas and logistics of the school day.
Key Responsibilities
- School operations
- Calendar
- Staff recruitment
- Staff absence & cover
- Behaviour standards
- Environment
- Admissions / school roll
- Catering / cleaning standards
Miss R Byrne
Deputy Headteacher
(Director of Sixth Form & Leadership)
Core Role
To ensure excellence in all aspects of Sixth Form provision relating to targets, curriculum quality, attainment and achievement standards, recruitment, attendance, behaviour & post-18 pathways / destinations
Key Responsibilities
- Key Stage 5 standards of attainment, achievement, attendance and behaviour
- Monitoring & intervention
- Sixth Form curriculum and enrichment
- Post-18 pathways
- Alumni
- Sixth Form Scholars
- Staff & student leadership & development
- Key Stage 5 Children Looked After (CLA)
- EPQ
Mrs N Rogers
Deputy Headteacher
(Curriculum)
Core Role
To ensure a high-quality curriculum for all students and excellent support for disadvantaged students that empowers them to achieve.
Key Responsibilities
- Curriculum
- School timetable
- Progress & attainment data
- Quality assurance
- Disadvantaged students Years 7-11
- Appraisal (teaching & support)
- External examinations
- Admission appeals
- Governor links
Miss K McArdle
Business Manager & Company Secretary
Core Role
To ensure effective financial and resource management, compliance with the regulatory framework, and well-maintained and safe buildings and facilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Finance
- Human resources
- Compliance
- PFI contract
- Risk management
- Health & safety (HSC)
- Support staff
- Premises & utilities
- Trips management
- Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme
- Home-school communication
- IT systems
- Open evenings
Mrs C Walton
Assistant Headteacher
(Student Services)
Core Role
To ensure the safety and well-being of all students through promoting a strong culture of safeguarding, excellent attendance and effective systems of care, guidance and support.
Key Responsibilities
- Attendance & punctuality (Years 7-11)
- Safeguarding & e-safety
- Designated Safeguarding Lead
- Uniform standards
- Student Services provision
- Health Services in Schools (HSIS)
- Student well-being (Years 7-11)
- LGBTQI+
- Safer Schools Officer liaison
Mrs E Jones
Assistant Headteacher
(Behaviour & Attitudes)
Core Role
To ensure outstanding behaviour and attitudes of all students, underpinned by a culture of respect, recognition and reward.
Key Responsibilities
- Behaviour systems and culture
- Anti-bullying
- Children Looked After (CLA)
- Reward schemes and initiatives
- Safeguarding Officer
- Year 6 into 7 transition
- Induction days
Mr M Reid
Assistant Headteacher
(Curriculum)
Core Role
To ensure effective procedures for assessing, monitoring and reporting students’ progress, supporting high achievement amongst all students.
Key Responsibilities
- Assessment, recording and reporting
- Target setting
- Internal examinations
- Year 11 Raising Achievement Plan
- Academic intervention / Learning Zone
- Year 9 options
- Parental engagement and communication
- Parents’ evenings
- School website
- World Class Schools
- Initial Teacher Training (ITT)
- E-learning
- STEM
Mrs J Kaloumenos
Assistant Headteacher
(Achievement & Aspirations)
Core Role
To ensure a broad range of wider enrichment opportunities are available to all students, including the most vulnerable, supporting their readiness for life beyond school.
Key Responsibilities
- Alternative provision
- Personal development
- Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance
- Work Experience (Year 10/12)
- Awards evenings
- Student Records of Achievement
- Extra-curricular programme
- Transport
Mr A Pierce
Assistant Headteacher
(Teaching & Learning)
Core Role
To ensure high quality teaching and learning throughout the school that challenges and supports all students to enjoy and achieve.
Key Responsibilities
- Teaching & learning innovation
- Staff Professional Development (CPD)
- Revision programmes and home / school study
- Homework
- Primary curriculum links and projects
- Cross-curricular links
- ECTs & new staff induction / support
- Most able provision