OTFORD - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Business Development Manager
- Employee
Charlotte Knight is a business development manager for a top City law firm, specialising in environmental, social and governance. She has over ten years experience working with lawyers and their corporate clients to shape business development strategies and executing marketing campaigns, events and social media channels. Having grown up near Colchester, Essex, she recently moved to Otford from south east London, and lives with her husband and toddler daughter.
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- Senior Administrator at the London Policing College
Frances Plowman is the Senior Administrator at the London Policing College. Before her current role she worked for 15 years in primary education in Kent and Surrey, with the last 8 as a school business manager responsible for setting us the administration function of a brand new primary school. She is experienced in school budgets, health and safety and personnel. She has lived in the Sevenoaks area for the last 20 years and has two adult children who attended local primary and secondary schools.
Hanna Campbell is a civil servant, who currently works in the Department for Education. Across her career to date, she has worked for the United Nations in Kosovo; within the charity sector for a leading education charity and has taught English to speakers of other languages in Senegal, China and the UK as a qualified ESOL teacher. Hanna now lives near Otford and became a co-opted governor in 2022.
Hannah Thomas was born and brought up in the local area and her oldest daughter now attends Otford Primary School. After graduating from Oxford University with a degree in Japanese, Hannah spent nearly 15 years working in NHS leadership roles focused on developing and improving patient services. She has advised executive leaders on strategic development, efficiency savings and business development. Her work has included projects to improve wellbeing and engagement and she has a personal interest in wellbeing, SEND and inclusion. Following a career break, she now works as a freelance writer and editor and has held a number of voluntary roles in the local area. She has lived in or near Otford for most of her life and has two children at Otford Primary School, where she has been a co-opted governor since 2019.
Job Titles:
- Head Teacher
- Headteacher / Ex Officio
Helen Roberts is the Headteacher of Otford Primary School and has been in post since June 2016. Prior to this, Mrs Roberts was in leadership positions in a variety of schools in both London and Tunbridge Wells, these roles included being Acting Headteacher on two occasions, a Head of School and a Deputy Headteacher in two large primary schools. She is also a parent with two children. Mrs Roberts has worked in many schools over the past 30 years, her first role was as a Year 2 teacher in her home county of Yorkshire.
Job Titles:
- School Secretary
- Schools Secretary
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- Deputy Headteacher ( Safeguarding Lead )
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- Assistant Headteacher ( Inclusion / SENCO Lead ) Specialist Teachers
Job Titles:
- Deputy Headteacher ( Safeguarding Lead )
- Staff
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- Co - Chair
- Chartered Accountant in 1997 With Deloitte's
Paul Jackaman qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1997 with Deloitte's, having obtained an honours degree in Business Maths from Kent University. In a 25 year career primarily in banking and commodities he has spent time living and working in London, New York, Tokyo, Australia, Singapore and most recently Hong Kong where he was the Chief Financial Officer of a listed company, from where he recently returned and now lives in Eynsford with his wife and three daughters. He is currently Co-Chair on the Board of Governors.
Job Titles:
- Office Administrator at Abstruct Consulting
Pippa Taylor is the Office Administrator at Abstruct Consulting, an Engineering firm in Sevenoaks. She has two children, both who attend Otford Primary School. Before starting a family, Pippa spent 10 years working as Advertising Sales Manager for 'The Independent', 'The London Evening Standard' and 'The i' Newspapers. She worked across all sectors but specialised in Education and Recruitment. Pippa was elected as a Parent Governor in 2017.