Whittle-le-Woods CofE Primary School

Our Whittle Team

Our Senior Leadership Team

No member of staff is paid over £100,000 at this school

Headteacher: Mrs Deborah Metcalfe BEd (Hons) QTS NPQH  Cambridge University

Deputy Headteacher: Mrs Jackie Haughin BA (Hons) PGCE NPQH Edge Hill University

Key Stage 2 Leader: Mrs Tracey Holmes BA (Hons)  UCLAN PGCE

Key Stage 1 Leader: Mrs Rebecca Ruffley BA (Hons) PGCE Liverpool

Our Teaching Teams

Definitions:

QTS means Qualified Teacher Status

HLTA means Higher Level Teaching Assistant

 

Nursery and Reception Class: Early Years Leader-Miss Molly Grecic BA (Hons) QTS Leeds Trinity University

Miss Kate Buchanan BA (Hons) QTS Edgehill University

Mrs Emma Boden BA (Hons) QTS Edge Hill University

Year 1 Team Mr Neil Moysey BSC Cumbria University PGCE Cumbria QTS
Mrs Claire Fleming BA (Hons) QTS MMU

 Year 2 Team: Mrs Rebecca Ruffley BA (Hons) PGCE Liverpool QTS
Mr Dan Porter HLTS studying part-time BA Primary Education with QTS Edgehill University

Mrs Katie Davies

Year 3 Team: Miss Alice Dowson BSC (Hons) Liverpool University PGCE Leeds Beckett University QTS

Mrs Julie McGreavy HLTA

Mrs Patricia Sumner

Year 4 Team: Mr Lewis Brennan BA (Hons) QTS 

Mrs Julie McGreavy HLTA

Mrs patricia Sumner

 

Year 5 Team: Mrs Jackie Haughin BA (Hons) PGCE NPQH Edge Hill University

Miss Jennifer Bertwistle BA Primary Education with QTS Lancaster University

Year 6 Team: Mrs Tracey Holmes Edge Hill University BA (Hons)  PGCE Edge Hill University QTS

Mr Michael Cummins BA (Hons) QTS Lancaster University

SENCO: Mrs Lindsey Bidder BA (Hons) QTS Lancaster University (and Pod teacher)

Our Teaching Assistants

Mrs Adele Ball NNEB

Mrs Katie Davies

Mrs Amy Farrow

Ms Sam Killick

Mr Dan Porter HLTA  Studying part-time BA Primary Education with QTS Edgehill University

Miss Rosie Mansfield BA (Hons) QTS Edge Hill University

Mrs Julie McGreavy HLTA

Mrs Leanne Saumtally

Mrs Patricia Sumner

Our Pre-School Team

Pre-school Lead:    Miss Molly Grecic BA (Hons) QTS Leeds Trinity University,

Pre-school Teacher:   Mrs Emma Boden BA (Hons) QTS Edgehill University

Mrs Emma Sanderson L3 Early Years Educator

Our welfare team

 Mrs J Bertwistle, Mr M Cummins, Mrs A Farrow, Ms S Killick, Miss R Mansfield, Mrs J McGreavy, Mrs L Saumtally, Mrs T Sumner 

Our Office Team

Office Assistant: Mrs Gillian Chamberlain

Bursar: Mrs Janet Hanrahan

Our Extended Services Team

Mrs A Ball (Manager), Mr C Cummins, Mrs A Farrow, Miss K Fillingham, Miss R Mansfield, Miss J Shacklady, Mrs P Sumner, Ms S Killick, Mr D Porter, Mrs C Fleming

Site Supervisor: Mr G Eccleston

The Gallery

Mrs Ball

Role
Favourite Book
Favourite Film
Favourite Food
Favourite Fact
Reception Teaching Assistant
Hairy McLairy from Donaldson’s Dairy
Pretty Woman
Cheese and Tomato Pizza
Hippos have pink milk

 

Miss Bertwistle

Role
Favourite Book
Favourite Film
Favourite Food
Favourite Fact
Year 2 Teaching Team
The Hungry Caterpillar
The Lion King
Steak with blue cheese sauce
A snail can sleep for 3 years at a time!

Mrs Bidder

Role
Favourite Book
Favourite Film
Favourite Food
Favourite Fact
Special Educational Needs & Disabilities Coordinator
The Island
Luca
Couscous Salad
The pirate Anne Bonny dressed in men’s clothes to make fighting easier.

Miss Boden

Role
Favourite Book
Favourite Film
Favourite Food
Favourite Fact
EYFS Teacher
The Twits
Matilda
Pancakes!
Sea Otters hold hands while sleeping so that they don’t drift apart.

Mr Brennan

Role
Favourite Book
Favourite Film
Favourite Food
Favourite Fact
Year 4 Teacher
Of Mice and Men
The Green Mile
Sunday Roast
Golf is the only sport to be played on the moon

Mrs Chamberlain

Role
Favourite Book
Favourite Film
Favourite Food
Favourite Fact
School Secretary
Alice in Wonderland
Prince of Egypt
Chilli & Jacket Potato
The left lung is smaller than the right one to make room for the heart.

 

Mr M Cummins

Role
Favourite Book
Favourite Film
Favourite Food
Favourite Fact
Year 6 Teaching Team
The 13th Valley. J M Del Vecchio
Once Upon A Time in America
Sunday Lamb Roast
Lightning is 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun!

Miss Dillon

Role
Favourite Book
Favourite Film
Favourite Food
Favourite Fact
Year 3 Teacher
The Great Gatsby
Aladdin
Toy Story
Chicken skewers with salt and pepper chips
Only 5% of the ocean has been explored – the rest is uncovered & unseen by humans.

Mr Eccleston

Role
Favourite Book
Favourite Film
Favourite Food
Favourite Fact
School Caretaker
A New Earth
The Shift
Curry
If the sun was made out of bananas, it would still be as hot

Mrs Farrow

Role
Favourite Book
Favourite Film
Favourite Food
Favourite Fact
SEND Teaching Assistant
Dream A Little Dream
Mamma Mia
Indian Chicken Tikka
You have more bones in your body as a baby than an adult

Miss Fillingham

Role

Favourite Book

Favourite Film

Favourite Food

Favourite Fact

Year 3 Teaching Team

Mrs Fleming

Role
Favourite Book
Favourite Film
Favourite Food
Favourite Fact
Year 1 Teaching Team
Autobiographies
Greatest Showman
Curry
People say ‘bless you’ because when you sneeze your heart stops for a millisecond

Miss Grecic

Role
Favourite Book
Favourite Film
Favourite Food
Favourite Fact
Reception Teacher and Early Years Leader
Old Bear (Children’s book)
Notting Hill/When Harry Met Sally – gorgeous films
Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate …
It rains diamonds on Jupiter and Saturn

Mrs Hanrahan


Role
Favourite Book
Favourite Film
Favourite Food
Favourite Fact
School Bursar
Little Women
Cheaper By The Dozen
Chocolate
Snails can sleep up to 3 years

Mrs Haughin


Role
Favourite Book
Favourite Film
Favourite Food
Favourite Fact
Deputy Headteacher & Year 5 Teacher
Anything by Lynda La Plante
Pretty Woman
Lamb Roast Dinner
Liverpool used to play in blue and Everton played in red

Mrs Holmes


Role
Favourite Book
Favourite Film
Favourite Food
Favourite Fact
Year 6 Teacher & Key Stage 2 Leader
Sashenka (Historical Fiction)
Grease
Roast chicken dinner
Volcanoes were erupting on the moon when dinosaurs roamed the Earth

Miss Killick


Role
Favourite Book
Favourite Film
Favourite Food
Favourite Fact
SEND Teaching Assistant
The Stars Are Tennis Balls
Avengers’ End Game
Mushroom Stroganoff
It takes more muscles to frown than to smile.

Miss Mansfield

Role
Favourite Book
Favourite Film
Favourite Food
Favourite Fact
SEND & Reception Teaching Assistant
Percy the Park Keeper
Brother Bear
Gyros
A group of rabbits is called a fluffle.

Mrs McGreavy

Role
Favourite Book
Favourite Film
Favourite Food
Favourite Fact
Year 4 Teaching Assistant
The Da Vinci Code
Pretty Woman
Pasta
There are 206 bones in the human body

Mrs Metcalfe

Role
Favourite Book
Favourite Film
Favourite Food
Favourite Fact
Head Teacher
Pride and Prejudice
A Room With A View
Curry
We stop growing after our teenage years, but ears and noses continue to grow

Mr Moysey

Role
Favourite Book
Favourite Film
Favourite Food
Favourite Fact
Year 1 Teacher
Seven Years in Tibet
The Hunt for Red October
Pizza
The collected noun for ladybirds is loveliness

 

Mr Porter

Role
Favourite Book
Favourite Film
Favourite Food
Favourite Fact
Year 5 Teaching Team
The Girl On The Train
The Lion King
Hash Browns
The tallest mountain is under the sea

Mrs Ruffley

Role
Favourite Book
Favourite Film
Favourite Food
Favourite Fact
Year 2 Teacher and KS 1 Leader
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Shawshank Redemption
Full English Breakfast
The word facetious has all of the vowels included and in alphabetical order

Mrs Sanderson

Role
Favourite Book
Favourite Film
Favourite Food
Favourite Fact
Pre-school Teaching Team
Pride & Prejudice
Notting Hill
Lasagne
A white horse is actually grey

Mrs Saumtally

Role
Favourite Book
Favourite Film
Favourite Food
Favourite Fact
SEND Support Assistant
Dirty Dancing
Chinese
A group of butterflies is a kaleidoscope

 

Mrs Shacklady

Role
Favourite Book
Favourite Film
Favourite Food
Favourite Fact
Reception and Nursery Teaching Assistant
Harry Potter
Step Up
Roast Dinner
Penguins can swim up to 22 mph

 

Mrs Steele

Role
Favourite Book
Favourite Film
Favourite Food
Favourite Fact
Pre-school Teaching Team
The Secret Garden
Snow White
Pizza
A baby shark is called a pup

Mrs Sumner

Role
Favourite Book
Favourite Film
Favourite Food
Favourite Fact
SEND Teaching Assistant
Secret Garden
True Romance
Sushi
Bees sleep for 8 hours a day

Cara

Role
Favourite Book
Favourite Film
Favourite Food
Favourite Fact
School Welfare Assistant
Harry Potter
The Holiday
Roast dinner
The oldest cat ever on record was 38 years old

 

Celia


Role
Favourite Book
Favourite Film
Favourite Food
Favourite Fact
School Cook
Black Beauty
Bridget Jones
Curry
People can swim with dolphins