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Dan Wright – NPQ (Behaviour & Culture) Facilitator
Dan is a specialist pastoral leader and Vice Principal at Holyhead School in Birmingham. Dan is passionate about removing barriers to learning and providing students with the best possible chances to be successful regardless of their background. Dan has a wealth of experience leading on behaviour and culture at both a strategic and operational level. […]

Jenny Campbell – NPQSL Facilitator
Jenny is a specialist leader of education, with experience in supporting middle leaders to help drive school improvement. She is a Vice Principal at Holyhead School in Birmingham where she plays a key role in determining school improvement priorities including staff professional development. She previously led a successful Science Department with outstanding outcomes across KS4 […]

Kelli Robinson – NPQ (Behaviour & Culture) Facilitator
Kelli is a qualified SENCo who has experience of working within secondary mainstream and across all phases of a specialist provision. She is passionate about identifying barriers and empowering teachers and pupils to reach their academic as well as their social and emotional potential. Kelli has exceptional knowledge about human behaviour, with a particular interest […]

Sadash Banger – NPQSL Facilitator
Sadash is a specialist leader of education with a proven track record of raising attainment and achieving excellent outcomes across the curriculum. She is Vice Principal at Holyhead School in Birmingham being an experienced English curriculum leader, an outstanding practitioner (Ofsted) and possessing a wealth of previous experience of coaching and supporting staff through changes […]

Teresa Wilson – NPQ (Leading Teacher Development) Facilitator & ECF Fellow
Teresa Wilson is Trust Lead for ITT and Early Careers. Teresa is an experienced teacher of Computing, and during her teaching career, has undertaken the role of ITT/NQT/RQT professional mentor, SLE and Director of ITT – Teach Central, which she leads across the Trust, she is also a Visiting Fellow for the ECF programme and […]

Matthew Purslow – NPQ (Leading Teacher Development) Facilitator
Matthew is a specialist leader of education, with a wealth of experience in leading the delivery, management, and evaluation of a comprehensive and effective CPD package demonstrating a real impact on student outcomes and stakeholder commitment as well as the management and development of a coherent Teaching School brand. Matthew is currently Assistant Headteacher within […]

Nic Beech – NPQH Facilitator
Nic is an experienced Executive Principal with responsibility for the education of children from reception through to year 8 across her schools. Nic manages three first schools and two middle schools in Redditch, Worcestershire. She has extensive knowledge of effective and impactful school management focusing on targeted school improvement and sustained outcomes for pupils and […]

Sam Mcmonagle – NPQSL Facilitator
Sam has over 24 years of experience working within the education sector and has headed up School Improvement for the trust since March 2018. Sam trained as a teacher in Nottingham in the 1990s and has worked in schools across the Midlands as a teacher, middle and senior leader. From 2009 Sam worked as an […]

Guy Shears – NPQEL Facilitator
Guy is Chief Executive officer of the Central Region Schools Trust, additionally, having been a successful Headteacher in two secondary schools. He has a strong commitment to opportunity for all and significant expertise in school improvement. Prior to becoming CEO, Guy was Principal at Arrow Vale school 2011- 2017 (Ofsted outstanding 2014, 2018); additionally, he […]

Arrow Valley First School opens as the latest Central RSA Academy Trust school in Redditch
We are delighted to welcome our newest member school, Arrow Valley First School, which opened on 1 April 2021. Pupils were welcomed into school after Easter with a joyful opening ceremony involving a very realistic dinosaur. A leaflet was produced to introduce the school to the community: