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
Acting Assistant Headteacher: Mrs Rebecca Ruffley BA (Hons) PGCE Liverpool
Acting Assistant Headteacher: Mrs Tracey Holmes BA (Hons) UCLAN PGCE
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
Mrs Adele Ball
Mrs Emma Steele
Miss Charlotte Miles
Miss Izzy Platt
Miss Mara Viana
Year 1 Team Mr Neil Moysey BSC Cumbria University PGCE Cumbria QTS
Miss Laura Hill
Year 2 Team: Mrs Rebecca Ruffley BA (Hons) PGCE Liverpool QTS
Mrs Katie Davies HLTA
Year 3 Team: Mrs Rachel French BA (Hons) St Mary's University Twickenham, PGCE Liverpool Hope University QTS
Mrs Claire Fleming BA (Hons) QTS MMU
Year 4 Team: Mr Lewis Brennan BA (Hons) QTS
Mrs Julie McGreavy HLTA
Year 5 Team: Miss Alice Dowson BSC (Hons) Liverpool University PGCE Leeds Beckett University QTS
Mrs Patricia Sumner
Mrs Leanne Saumtally
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 HLTA
Mrs Amy Farrow
Mrs Julie McGreavy HLTA
Mrs Leanne Saumtally
Mrs Patricia Sumner
Mrs Natalie Waite
Mrs Leigh Parkinson
Ms Mara Viana
Our Pre-School Team
Pre-school Leader: 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
Mrs Emma Steele L3 Early Educator
Miss Charlotte Miles
Miss Izzy Platt
Our Welfare team
Mr M Cummins, Mrs A Farrow, Mrs J McGreavy, Mrs L Saumtally, Mrs T Sumner Mrs L Hill, Mrs K Davies, Miss C Miles, Miss I Platt, Mrs Parkinson, Mrs Waite,
Our Office Team
Office Assistant: Mrs Gillian Chamberlain
Bursar: Mrs Janet Hanrahan
Our Extended Services Team
Mrs A Ball (Manager), Mr M Cummins, Mrs A Farrow, Miss J Shacklady, Mrs P Sumner, Miss C Miles, Miss I Platt, Mrs C Fleming
Site Supervisor: Neil Brooks
The Gallery
Mrs Ball
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Reception Teaching Assistant Hairy McLairy from Donaldson’s Dairy Pretty Woman Cheese and Tomato Pizza Hippos have pink milk |
Mrs Davies
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Year 2 Teaching Team |
Mrs Bidder
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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
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EYFS Teacher The Twits Matilda Pancakes! Sea Otters hold hands while sleeping so that they don’t drift apart. |
Mr Brennan
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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
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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
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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! |
Mrs French
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Year 3 Teacher Harry Potter & the Goblet of fire Pasta Capybaras are the world's largest rodents |
Mr Brooks
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School Caretaker |
Mrs Farrow
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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 |
Mrs Fleming
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Year 1 Teaching Team Autobiographies Greatest Showman Curry People say ‘bless you’ because when you sneeze your heart stops for a millisecond |
Miss Grecic
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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
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School Bursar Little Women Cheaper By The Dozen Chocolate Snails can sleep up to 3 years |
Mrs Holmes
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Acting Assistant Headteacher, 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 |
Mrs Parkinson
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Teaching Assistant |
Miss Viana
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Reception Team Wonder
Moana
Francesinha (Portuguese) Sunday Roast (British)
Sharks are older than trees
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Mrs McGreavy
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Year 4 Teaching Assistant The Da Vinci Code Pretty Woman Pasta There are 206 bones in the human body |
Mrs Metcalfe
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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
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Year 1 Teacher Seven Years in Tibet The Hunt for Red October Pizza The collected noun for ladybirds is loveliness |
Miss Hill
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Year 1 Teaching Team Hocus Pocus Pasta, pasta, pasta Ice skating is over 4,000 years old. The earliest skates were made from animal bones tied to the feet!! |
Mrs Ruffley
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Acting Assistant Headteacher, 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
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Pre-school Teaching Team Pride & Prejudice Notting Hill Lasagne A white horse is actually grey |
Mrs Saumtally
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SEND Support Assistant
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Mrs Shacklady
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Reception and Nursery Teaching Assistant Harry Potter Step Up Roast Dinner Penguins can swim up to 22 mph |
Mrs Steele
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Pre-school Teaching Team The Secret Garden Snow White Pizza A baby shark is called a pup |
Mrs Sumner
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Teaching Assistant Secret Garden True Romance Sushi Bees sleep for 8 hours a day |
Cara
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School Welfare Assistant Harry Potter The Holiday Roast dinner The oldest cat ever on record was 38 years old |
Celia
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School Cook Black Beauty Bridget Jones Curry People can swim with dolphins |
Miss Miles
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Teaching Assistant |
Miss Platt
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Apprentice early Years Educator People can swim with dolphins |