Leadership Team
Chief Executive Principal, Executive Principal, Associate Executive Principal & Academy Principal
Julie Slater - Chief Executive Principal
Julie Slater is the Chief Executive Principal - Secondary for Outwood Grange Academies Trust, and a National Leader of Education. She has a proven track record of leading an ‘Outstanding’ school as Principal at Outwood Grange Academy and has consi...
Dr Philip Smith - Executive Principal
Dr Philip Smith is an Executive Principal. Dr Smith has a degree in Theoretical Physics, a Masters in School Leadership and a Doctorate in the Transformational Leadership of Schools. He was the Principal of Outwood Academy Portland from Janu...
Carolyn Blundell - Associate Executive Principal
Carolyn Blundell is an Associate Executive Principal who has responsibility for the southern academies within the Trust. Carolyn is as a National Leader of Education and led, with Martyn Oliver, Outwood Academy Adwick on its journey from requiring...
Andrew Downing - Principal
Having completed his Biomedical Chemistry degree in Sheffield and PGCE in Sciences at the University of Huddersfield, Andrew has a wealth of teaching experience securing his first teaching position in 1999 as a Newly Qualified Teacher. Andrew was ...
Senior Leadership Team
Julia Pinder - Vice Principal
Julia completed her teaching degree at Sheffield Hallam University, her specialism is Chemistry. She went on to study and complete her Masters in Leadership and Management and then completed the National SEND qualification and the NPQH. Julia has ...
Lucy Cooper - Associate Vice Principal
Having completed a mathematics degree at University of Sheffield, Lucy completed a PGCE (secondary mathematics) at Sheffield Hallam University in 1994. She has taught in a wide range of schools across South Yorkshire, gaining a wealth of teaching ...
Chelsea Allen - Assistant Principal
Driven by the fervent belief that demography doesn’t have to be destiny and that the attainment gap which is so entrenched in our society is not inevitable, Chelsea began her teaching career on the TeachFirst programme in 2011 at Outwood Academy S...
Ryan Sheehan - Assistant Principal
After graduating from Sheffield Hallam University with a degree in Physical Education and Youth Sport and QTS Ryan began his teaching career at The City School in 2006 as a newly qualified teacher. Ryan quickly progressed to hold a number of leade...
Scott Morton - Assistant Principal
Scott believes passionately that all students should have access to an excellent education, irrespective of their background, starting point or postcode. It is this belief that motivated Scott to enter the teaching profession, through the Teach Fi...
Jane Jones - Business Manager
Jane has a long standing connection with The City School having attended as a pupil in the 1980s. She joined the City School staff in 2004 as the Examinations and Cover Manager after leaving her career at Royal Mail as a Finance and Admin Manager....
James Colliver - Associate Assistant Principal
James started his journey at Outwood Academy City, formerly The City School, in 2006 as a Cover Supervisor before joining the Inclusion Team as a Learning Manager in 2009. During his time at the Academy, James has held several responsibilities but...
Joanne Tapper - Associate Assistant Principal
Associate Assistant Principal - Deep Experience
Luke Rawson - Associate Assistant Principal
Associate Assistant Principal - Deep Experience
Natalie Hall - Associate Assistant Principal
Associate Assistant Principal - Deep Support
Claire Attrill - Regional SEND Officer
Claire Attrill has a degree in human psychology and a Post Graduate Certificate in Special Educational Needs Coordination. She has worked with children and young people with special educational needs over the past 10 years across a variety of sect...
Kathryn Hawkins - Associate Director of MFL
Kathryn started her teaching career in Leeds in 2010, before spending four years in London teaching languages, as Head of Department and Assistant Principal. In 2016 she returned to Yorkshire to become Associate Director of MFL with Outwood Grange...
