HAGLEY - Key Persons


Andy Gorton

Job Titles:
  • Director of Infrastructure and Digital Strategy
Andy directs our infrastructure and IT strategy and developments across the College.

Angela Brett

Job Titles:
  • Mathematics

Anna Taylor


Anna Williams

Job Titles:
  • Adviser

Anne Farrall

Job Titles:
  • Nurse

Bridget Fairweather

Job Titles:
  • Physical Education

Cameron Mattox


Carolyn Heyward-Judd

Job Titles:
  • Guidance Counsellor

Charles Mullins

Job Titles:
  • Parent Member ( Finance Committee )

Daniel Wiseman


Emma Lumb


Fiona Brownlie


Hayden Shaw

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Principal
Hayden leads the College in engaging our students with learning. He has responsibility for leading curriculum design, development and delivery, NCEA assessment as well as building strong self review practices.

Helen Shirley

Job Titles:
  • Head of Learning Support Services

Jasmine Lambert

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Principal
Jasmine (Kāi Tahu) leads our work in upholding and strengthening bicultural partnerships throughout the kura. Jasmine collaborates in the strategic oversight of Wellbeing in the College, and is an Across-School Teacher in our Kāhui Ako (community of learning), Te Taura Here o Ōtautahi.

Jenni Holden

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Principal
Jenni's key role is as a liaison between the wider community and the College, fostering educationally powerful connections and relationships. She is the ‘go to' person for teaching staff and support staff, and she supports several key areas in the school, including oversight of systems and logistics.

Jenny O'Sullivan


Jo Fox


Kim Swann


Melanie Dixon


Melanie Morris

Job Titles:
  • Presiding Member ( Finance Committee )

Michael Gilchrist

Job Titles:
  • Head of Guidance

Nadene Brouwer


Nanako Sato

Job Titles:
  • Music

Paolo Vallero Reid

Job Titles:
  • Student Representative ( Te Urungi )

Paul Ballantine

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Chair of Board and Chair of the Finance Committee

Phillipa Weir

Job Titles:
  • Parent Member ( Policy Commitee )
My name is Phillipa Weir, I'm married to Tim, and I'm a mother of 3 children, and foster mother of two.

Rebecca Crowe


Rosa Hughes-Currie

Job Titles:
  • Science

Rowan Milburn

Job Titles:
  • Principal
Rowan leads our student wellbeing team. She leads our staff in shaping how our students engage with learning, with each other and with our teachers. Rowan directs our school calendar, events, day to day student operations, as well as promotes opportunities for student participation and leadership. Rowan, as the Tumuaki of our school leads the strategic direction of the College and leads our staff. Rowan is involved in all areas of the school and particulary enjoys leading the student council and getting out into classrooms and to events that students are participating in.

Sondra Pawhau-Bunt


Suzanne Waters

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Principal
  • Staff Representative and Policy Committee
Suzanne has a wealth of experience when it comes to the well-being of our students. She oversees the pastoral care and discipline of our Yr 9 - Yr 12 students as well as learning for Yr 9 - Yr 11.

Suzanne Wood

Job Titles:
  • Guidance Counsellor

Tara de Coninck


Vicki Dixon


Zelda Yates

Job Titles:
  • Parent Member ( Policy Committee and Pre - School Trust )
My name is Zelda Yates. I am a very proud former student of Te Puna Wai o Waipapa -Hagley College and a proud mother to my daughter Brooke who is currently navigating her way through Hagley as I once did. I am fortunate to have been a student of the college, Hagley Theatre Company and the After 3 classes over the years, as well as having the privilege to be married on the front steps of the school in 2011, when our previous venues were destroyed in the earthquakes.