THOMAS READE PRIMARY SCHOOL - Key Persons
Miss Allott is in her second year at Thomas Reade. She has the pleasure of teaching in Year 1. She enjoy teaching Science and taking learning outside the classroom.
Job Titles:
- Year 2 Teacher / RSE Lead / RE Lead
Miss Owbridge is now in her third year of teaching and her second
at Thomas Reade. She loves teaching English and Art.
Job Titles:
- Year 3 Teacher / Humanities Lead
Miss Cronin is in her 3rd year of teaching at Thomas Reade and she was also lucky enough to do her teacher training here too! Although she's from South Wales, she has now been settled in Oxfordshire for a few years. She loves travelling to new places and reading a good book (when she has time!).
Job Titles:
- Year 6 Teacher / Science Lead / English Co - Ordinator / SLT
Mr Austin is now in his 9 th year at Thomas Reade, and he currently teaches Year 6. He is a member of SLT and is the science lead for the school. Before becoming a teacher, Mr Austin worked on a very small island in Malaysia as a Scuba diving instructor (putting his marine biology degree to good use!). Outside of school, he is the Leader of 7 th Abingdon Air Scouts and enjoy camping, climbing, diving, hiking and kayaking.
Job Titles:
- EYFS Lead / Early Reading English Lead
- Reception Class Teacher
Mrs Blagrove is the very proud teacher of a wonderful Reception class. She's been teaching for almost 20 years, and this is her third year at Thomas Reade school. Outside of school she loves being a Mummy, playing Netball and eating ice creams on holiday. She wishes she had more time to bake as she love cupcakes with lots of buttercream!
Job Titles:
- Second Member
- Year 5 Teacher
Mrs. Langley is the second member of our new year 5 teaching team. She is looking forward to working with Mrs Rickard in year 5 and meeting our wonderful year 5 class.
Mrs. Rickard is thrilled to be part of the team teaching year 5 for the rest of this school year. She is looking forward to teaching many new and exciting things and getting to know our fabulous year 5 class.
Mrs. Rickard has been teaching for almost 12 years, she is passionate about teaching all subjects but her absolute favourites are maths, reading, PE and computing. Outside of teaching she runs her own Outside of teaching she runs her own beauty business, enjoys walking and any outdoor exercise.
Job Titles:
- Year 4 Teacher / Maths Lead / English Co - Ordinator SA Link / SLT
Mrs. Evans is currently the Year 4 Teacher and Maths Coordinator. She has worked at Thomas Reade for many years, initially as a teaching assistant in Year 2 when her three children were here. She completed her teaching degree and became the Year 1 teacher, for six years. She has just completed her third year teaching year 4. Mrs Evans loves singing and always starts the morning off with a song, she enjoys living in Abingdon and working at Thomas Reade School.
Job Titles:
- SENCO and Music Teacher
- Specialist Music Teacher / SENCO
Lynne Holt is our School SENCO and can be contacted on senco@thomas-reade.oxon.sch.uk. This email will be checked on Mrs Holt's working days (Tuesday and Wednesday). If your enquiry is urgent, please contact the school office on the address above.
Job Titles:
- Headteacher and Designated Safeguarding Lead / English Co - Ordinator
Job Titles:
- Deputy Headteacher / ICT Co - Ordinator and Specialist PE Teacher / English Co - Ordinator / SLT
Mrs Moulster joined Thomas Reade in 2005 working three days a week as a specialist PE teacher. In addition to teaching at Thomas Reade she has led the Abingdon Partnership PE network group for 10 years organising all the sports activities and events for the primary schools in Abingdon and the local villages. Mrs. Moulster took on the role of SENCO in 2020 and following successful completion of her Masters in Educational leadership and management in 2022 became Acting Deputy Headteacher from September 2022, before being offered the permanent role in March 2023.
In her spare time Mrs. Moulster enjoys attending adult dance classes, and has been involved in coaching gymnastics for over 30 years. When not teaching at Thomas Reade Mrs. Moulster looks forward to going skiing with her family or enjoying summer holidays in the mountains or at the beach.