Key School Contacts
Below you can find a breakdown of key contacts at the school including their roles and areas of responsibility.
Senior leadership team
Mr Craig Jansen
Executive Headteacher
Responsible for issues affecting the school, its pupils and its staff, where consultation with other senior members of staff is impossible or inappropriate; policy and practice; external relations; monitoring and evaluation/quality assurance; strategic direction and day to day operation; community working; finance and resources
Mrs Gail Howe
Associate Headteacher
Responsible for the overview of teaching and learning; structure of school curriculum; self-evaluation; school assessment strategies, policy and practice; strategic and day to day operation
Mr D Cumming
Assistant Headteacher
Responsible for extended school, including extra-curricular, pupil services, community engagement, induction of new staff, newly qualified teachers and staff CPD.
Mr C Taylor
Assistant Headteacher
Responsible for timetabling, tracking systems, intervention strategy, assessment systems
Mr I Curry
Assistant Headteacher
Responsible for reports to parents, pastoral systems, lunchtime duty, Parents’ Forum.
Mr M Staal
Assistant Headteacher
Extended Leadership Team – Leading on Maths and Numeracy across the school
Mrs J Ison
Assistant Headteacher
Extended Leadership Team – Leading on Science
Mr J Faricy
Assistant Headteacher
Extended Leadership Team – Leading on English and Literacy across the School
Mr J Battye
Associate Senior Leader
Miss L Geisel
Associate Senior Leader
Head of year team
Miss F Dickinson
Head of year 7
Miss L Geisel
Head of year 8
Mr D Flack
Head of year 9
Mrs D Antich
Head of year 10
Mr M Speat
Head of year 11
Other key contacts
Mrs B Atkinson
RGN RSCPHN – Child & Family Specialist Nurse
Mrs D Armitage
MBACP (Accred) Counsellor
Mrs C Mason
Executive Headteacher’s PA/School Administration Manager
Mrs H Broadley
Operations Manager
Responsible for the co-ordination of school events and school transport, teaching staff cover arrangements
Mr M Galloway
Strategic Finance & Premises Manager
Responsible for finance, premises, day to day health and safety
You are welcome to contact members of staff. The usual procedure on matters relating to your child or their subjects, is to contact your child’s Form Tutor, initially.
Email communication is used by staff on a daily basis and is a good way of making contact directly with them.
Our staff email addresses follow the format: initial.surname@holmfirthhigh.co.uk
For example, if we had a staff member called Andrew Smith, his email address would be: a.smith@holmfirthhigh.co.uk
To telephone, use the main school number and press the extension number, if you know it, or wait for the receptionist.
Please be aware that, without prior arrangement, you may not be able to speak directly to a member of staff , as they may be teaching or in meetings etc. However, you will be able to leave a message and the member of staff will call you back as soon as they are able.