Back to school noticeboard

The Management Team

The Management Team leads the whole school in all areas: academic, social, emotional and financial etc.
It comprises:

The Principal - Dr. Carolyn Drake
The Deputy Head - Mr. Frank Bartram
Proprietors - Mr. Michael Drake, Mrs. Barbara Drake, Dr. Carolyn Drake


The school is organised into four sections:

Nursery = Pre-nursery and Nursery
Lower school = Reception (Orange group) and Year 1 (Red group)
Middle school = Year 2 (Purple group), Year 3 (White group) and Year 4 (Gold group)
Upper school = Years 5 and 6


The Nursery and Pre-Nursery


The purpose-built Nursery opens onto the garden where there is an all-weather safety playground, a two-storey Wendy house, sand-pit and play apparatus. The Nursery is equipped with a wide range of play apparatus, craft, didactic, pre-reading and mathematical materials. The first learning experiences are through structured play. Letterland and Jolly Phonics, our own pre-reading and pre-maths schemes and practical science activities lead on to our English, Maths and Science schemes as soon as appropriate.

Within the Nursery the staff/child ratio varies from session to session, the largest session being 11 children at the moment when both our teacher and nursery nurse work with the children. French and Music are taught by our in-house teachers and so the move from Nursery to Reception is very smooth as they already know the teachers. Dancing is offered as an option.

Pre-Nursery children (2 ½ - 3 ½ years) usually attend several afternoon sessions. Nursery children (3 ½ - 4 ½ years) usually start off with several morning sessions at the beginning of the year, working up to full time in the Summer term in preparation for the move to Reception. Many children extend their session or come in early in order to share our lunch. We therefore offer quite a flexible sessions system which can meet both the children's and parents needs, of course depending on availability.

Name

Title

Qualifications

Yrs experience

Yrs at Fold

Assigned responsibilities

Nicola Pinney

Miss

B A Hons. PGCE

12

7

Team leader and teacher

Tanya Pierce

Miss

NNEB

11

9

Nursery Nurse

Julie Jay

Mrs

Cert Ed.

30

22

Music

Frances Richardson

Ms

RADA ISTD

12

12

Dance

Clare Stanton-Thompson

Mme.

2

2

French



The Lower School - Reception and Year 1


When the children progress upstairs to the Lower School, they spend about half of their time in the Academic Room working with the teacher and half their time in the Practical Room with the Nursery Nurse doing art and craft, imaginative, creative, constructive and free play etc.

Small groups are withdrawn for extension and reinforcement work. They continue French and Music and Movement and start swimming, gymnastics, ball skills, Speech and Drama



Name

Title

Qualifications

Yrs experience

Yrs at Fold

Assigned responsibilities

Julie Jay

Mrs

Cert Ed.

30

22

Music

Kay Powell

Mrs

B Ed Hons

37

9

Teacher

Danielle Solomons

Mrs

NVQ3

7

7

Nursery Nurse

Jo Knowles-lee

Mrs

NVQ2

2

2

Classroom assistant

Frances Richardson

Ms

RADA ISTD

12

12

Dance, Drama, Class Assistant

Clare Stanton-Thompson

Mme

2

2

French

Rachel Keeling

Miss

B Ed Hons. ASA

12

9

Swimming



The Middle School - Years 2, 3 and 4 &
Upper School - Years 5 and 6




There is a significant change in atmosphere when the children move up to the Middle School with greater emphasis on autonomy.

The children no longer have a class teacher, but rather have specialist primary trained teachers who teach two or three subjects each. Children and teachers therefore move from room to room according to the lesson.

The atmosphere in the Upper School is again different, with an emphasis on responsibility and privileges. Our Years 5 and 6 have most of their lessons in 197 which is specially adapted for children of this age.



Name

Title

Qualifications

Yrs experience

Yrs at Fold

Assigned responsibilities

Stephanie James

Mrs

B Ed Hons.

33

1

Maths coordinator

Frank Bartram

Mr

M.A. Ed

35

2

Deputy head, history, ICT

Wendy Sargent

Mrs

B Ed Hons.PGCE

18

8

English coordinator

Rachel Keeling

Miss

B Ed Hons. ASA Level 2

12

9

Geography, citizenship, copywriting, swimming

David Bradford

Mr

B Ed Hons. PGCE

10

2

Art, DT, copywriting

Sarah Summers

Mrs

B Ed Hons.

5

1

Science

Clare Stanton-Thompson

Mme

2

2

French

Michael Drake

Mr

BA ,Cert Ed. ASA

30

19

Current events

Frances Richardson

Ms

RADA ISTD

12

12

Dance, Drama, Class Assistant

Liz Marchant

Mrs

6

6

Classroom assistant

Nicky Smith

Mrs

BA

6

3

Classroom assistant

Barbara Drake

Mrs

BA

30

22

Sewing, needlecrafts



Specialist Teachers


Name

Title

Qualifications

Yrs experience

Yrs at Fold

Assigned responsibilities

Charlotte Fane

Miss

B Mus Hons

4

3

Piano, singing, ensemble

Jane Foster

Ms.

G Mus RNCM PGCE Music, Expressive Arts

12

4

Violin, viola

Sarah Jarvis

Mrs

LRAM

17

7

Piano, harmony

Ian Lovatt

Mr

Professional musician

12

1

Guitar



The Incredibles




Name

Qualifications

Yrs at Fold

Assigned responsibilities

Barbara Partridge

22

School secretary

Anne Sykes

ASA Level 1

10

Uniform, swimming, organisation

Keith Ghent

22

Caretaker

Helen James

MA Hons Cantab, ASA Level 2

3

Assistant bursar, Swimming instructor

Brigitte Alexander

MA Hons, Contab

3

Chef, HE teacher

Sue Lowe, Karen Nelson

3

Kitchen assistants