Our Team
We currently have a staff of 24 teachers, 14 teaching assistants plus admin and support staff personnel who cover a wealth of knowledge and experience and many of whom have been at Edmund Waller for a very long time. The mixture of new members of staff with the well-established brings a vibrancy and energy to the team where the children’s progress is paramount. Our staff team represents a wide range of cultural backgrounds with many staff members speaking more than one language. Each class is named after a biome, which helps reinforce the idea of the children and adults being global citizens.
All staff have regular Continuing Professional Development (CPD) support. Staff development in the past has included: Maths, Planning and Assessment, Computing, First Aid, Leadership and English.
Teaching Staff
- Anne Rennie - Headteacher
- Dan Absolom – Deputy Headteacher
- Sue Greenbank – Assistant Headteacher (Inclusion Lead, SENCO Nursery-Y3 & DSL)
- Daisy Moon - Inclusion & Enrichment Lead (SENCO Y4-Y6)
- Michelle Goodman – Nursery - Ocean
- Chery Nguyen – Reception - Forest
- Ann Scholl - Reception - Woodland
- Chrissie Clarke - Year 1 - Jungle
- Claire Shaw - Year 1 - Rainforest
- Charlotte Stapleton – Year 2 - Lake
- Garin Scammell – Year 2 - River
- Helen Winter – Year 3 - Meadow
- Marayam Sharman & Rosie Plunkett – Year 3 - Stream
- Lydia Lepere & Rosie Plunkett - Year 4 - Prairie
- Megan Verney – Year 4 - Savannah
- Sara Case – Year 5 -Coral
- Zoe Silverton – Year 5 - Estuary
- Dave Hill - Year 6 - Tundra
- Bethany Davis – Year 6
- Nilgun Hashim – PPA Teacher
- Debbi Murtagh - PPA Teacher
- Sarah Horner – Specialist Literacy Teacher
- Rukia Henry – PE and Girls’ Football
Administrators
- Gareth Hudson – School Business Manager
- Shanee Khan - Office Manager
- Jodi Skinner – Office Administrator
- Lesley Price – Family Liaison & Pastoral Advisor
Premises Team
- Thomas Slack – Premises Manager
- Dan Hudson – Assistant Premises Manager
- Liz Beharry-Bhudial - School Cleaner
- Ana Perez – School Cleaner
- Jacqueline Seale – School Cleaner
- Mary Wells – School Cleaner
- Stamatina Chatzichristou - School Cleaner
- Armel Kengne - School Cleaner
Support Staff
- Patricia Adaah – Early Years Practitioner
- Jo Harman – Early Years Practitioner
- Rosalind Keith – Early Years Practitioner
- Alison Davis – Teaching Assistant
- Gloria Cole - Teaching Assistant
- Dayan Emin – Teaching Assistant
- Ceyda Erdogan – Teaching Assistant
- Tallulah Grabarek - Higher Level teaching Assistant
- Joshua McGibbon - Teaching Assistant
- Lea Rogations– Higher Level Teaching Assistant
- Janet Ward – Teaching Assistant
- Lyn Shephard – Senior Mid-Day Meals Supervisor
- Alison Davis - Mid-Day Meals Supervisor
- Joanne Janik-Zelazko - Mid-Day Meals Supervisor
- Liz Beharry-Bhudial – Mid-Day Meals Supervisor
- Rhonda Cannon - Mid-Day Meals Supervisor
- Dorson Sandiford – Mid-Day Meals Supervisor
- Paris Cozier - Mid-Day Meals Supervisor
- Mary Wells – Mid-Day Meals Supervisor
- Joyce Diamond - Mid-Day Meals Supervisor
- Rebecca Robinson-Reid Mid Day Meals Supervisor
- Leila Merabti - Mid Day Meals Supervisor