ST HUGH'S SCHOOL - Key Persons


Dr Anna Coull

Job Titles:
  • Partner at White Horse Medical Practice
Dr Anna Coull was a GP and partner at White Horse Medical Practice in Faringdon for 30 years. She was educated at Queen Anne's School and Birmingham University. She is married to Hamish and their two daughters both had a very happy time at St Hugh's before going on to Cheltenham College. Both girls have now qualified as doctors and are training to be GPs.

Miss C Hill

Job Titles:
  • Middle School Teacher

Miss E Smith Level

Job Titles:
  • Diploma, HLTA Middle School Teaching Assistant

Miss G Best

Job Titles:
  • TEACHING STAFF Member
  • QTS Pre - Prep Teacher

Miss K Beckett NVLQ

Job Titles:
  • TEACHING STAFF Member
  • Pre - Prep Teaching Assistant

Miss L Botsford

Job Titles:
  • Prep Teacher, Deputy Head of Pre - Prep

Miss M Costello

Job Titles:
  • Head of Modern Foreign Languages, Head of Years 5 & 6, Wellbeing

Miss M Lepisova CACHE Level

Job Titles:
  • NVQ DT Teaching Assistant

Miss P Patel

Job Titles:
  • Middle School Teacher

Miss S Coles

Job Titles:
  • Prep Teacher

Miss S Price

Job Titles:
  • Middle School Teacher

Miss T Ferguson

Job Titles:
  • Head of PTP, Learning Support

Miss T Gujral

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Sports Assistant

Miss Y Antwi-Dakwa

Job Titles:
  • TEACHING STAFF Member

Mr Alex Wildman

Job Titles:
  • Boarding Governor

Mr Alistair Hamilton

Job Titles:
  • Bursar

Mr B Rogers

Job Titles:
  • QTS Maths Teacher

Mr C McCully

Job Titles:
  • QTS Director of Sport

Mr Chris Davies

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Education, Welfare and Compliance Committee

Mr D Maitland MA

Job Titles:
  • QTS Deputy Head ( Operations ), Maths, Science

Mr Daniel Maitland

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Head Operations

Mr David Griffiths

Job Titles:
  • Headmaster
Chair of Governors: Mr Neill Lawson-Smith Email: chair@st-hughs.co.uk Post: c/o The Clerk to the Governors, at the address above (or private address available by request to the Bursar) Telephone: private number available by request to the Bursar

Mr Edward Hayter

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer at St Edward 's School

Mr G Hopson

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Sports Assistant

Mr Graham Varney

Job Titles:
  • Estates & Development Governor

Mr J Harris-Bass

Job Titles:
  • Head of Years 7 & 8

Mr J Kennard

Job Titles:
  • Head of Science, Head of Current Affairs

Mr J Towers Law

Job Titles:
  • PGCE Head of Maths, Head of Chislehurst

Mr M Berry

Job Titles:
  • TEACHING STAFF Member
  • PGCE Pre - Prep Teacher

Mr M D Hargreaves

Job Titles:
  • CPSE Head of History, Head of Scholarship

Mr M Hobbs

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Estate Manager

Mr M Waller

Job Titles:
  • Head of Latin, Head of Assessment, Head of Carswell

Mr Neill Lawson-Smith

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Governors
  • Chartered Engineer
  • Fellow
  • Member of the Finance & Estates Committee

Mr P Bailey

Job Titles:
  • TEACHING STAFF Member

Mr R Farrow

Job Titles:
  • Estate Manager

Mr R Paul

Job Titles:
  • Lettings Manager & Head of Activities

Mr Richard Clarke

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Head ( Pastoral ), Senior Tutor, Maths
  • Deputy Head Pastoral, Senior Tutor

Mrs A Blanchard

Job Titles:
  • TEACHING STAFF Member
  • Head of PE Girls' Sport

Mrs A Hiscock CACHE Level

Job Titles:
  • Diploma Nursery Teaching Assistant

Mrs A Lings BEd

Job Titles:
  • Head of Nursery

Mrs A Walsh

Job Titles:
  • Prep Teaching Assistant

Mrs C Beverly

Job Titles:
  • TEACHING STAFF Member

Mrs C Bickell

Job Titles:
  • TEACHING STAFF Member

Mrs C Glover

Job Titles:
  • HR Officer

Mrs C Wilsdon

Job Titles:
  • Diploma Nursery & Pre - Prep Teaching Assistant

Mrs Clare Rich

Job Titles:
  • Director of Marketing & Admissions

Mrs E Dickins

Job Titles:
  • Librarian, Head of Houses

Mrs E Dupée

Job Titles:
  • Drama & DT Assistant

Mrs E Rogers

Job Titles:
  • Middle School Teacher

Mrs F Scobie

Job Titles:
  • Admissions Registrar

Mrs F Welch

Job Titles:
  • Head of Geography, Learning Support

Mrs Fiona Lines

Job Titles:
  • Head
  • Nurse

Mrs G Farrow

Job Titles:
  • Prep Teaching Assistant

Mrs H Flower

Job Titles:
  • Pre - Prep Teaching Assistant

Mrs H McCully

Job Titles:
  • Level 3, HLTA Nursery Teaching Assistant

Mrs H Wilson

Job Titles:
  • School Accountant

Mrs Harriet Perry-Evans

Job Titles:
  • Assistant House Parent

Mrs J Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Level 3 - Forest Leader NVQ Level 3 Forest School Teacher

Mrs Judy Forrest

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Chair

Mrs Julia Veness

Job Titles:
  • Head of Middle School

Mrs K L Clarke

Job Titles:
  • Head of

Mrs K Steenaart

Job Titles:
  • NVQ Pre - Prep Teaching Assistant

Mrs Kim Titcombe


Mrs L Allen

Job Titles:
  • School Secretary

Mrs L Brodley

Job Titles:
  • Prep Teacher

Mrs L Macpherson

Job Titles:
  • External Relations & Events Coordinator

Mrs Lorraine Chitty

Job Titles:
  • Consultant
Lorraine Chitty is a consultant for a solicitors firm with offices in Wiltshire and London. She also sits on the Midland Circuit as a Deputy District Judge and specialises in family law with broad experience across most of these specialised areas. Lorraine is a key member of the Education and Compliance Committee. She is married to Roger, and they have two children who were both at St Hugh's.

Mrs M Wootten

Job Titles:
  • QTS, Pre - Prep Teacher

Mrs N Bunter

Job Titles:
  • HLTA Upper School Teaching Assistant

Mrs N Perceval

Job Titles:
  • PGCE French Teacher ( Maternity Cover )

Mrs N Shanta

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Housemistress

Mrs P Hills

Job Titles:
  • Head of Drama, Head of Malvern ( Maternity Leave )

Mrs Polly Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Admissions & Marketing Governor
Polly is the former Director of Marketing & Admissions at St Hugh's, having worked at the school for nearly 10 years. Polly now works as the Senior Admissions Manager at Radley College. Prior to starting her career in Education, Polly worked in Healthcare, specialising in A&E, Cardiology and Practice Nursing, before joining the Pharmaceutical Industry in the 1990s and latterly becoming Chief Executive of a small healthcare charity. Polly is married to Bart, and their two children, Tallulah and Monty, were both educated at St Hugh's before moving on to Cheltenham Ladies College and Eton - both are now students at the University of Durham.

Mrs R Pickering

Job Titles:
  • Head of RS, Head of Bickley

Mrs R Walsham CACHE Level

Job Titles:
  • Diploma, HLTA Pre - Prep Teaching Assistant

Mrs S Threadgold

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Bursar

Mrs T Huxley

Job Titles:
  • Middle School Teaching Assistant

Mrs T Jenkins

Job Titles:
  • Accounts Assistant

Mrs Virginia Gill

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Finance & Estates Committee
Virginia Gill was born in Oxford and was among the first girls to be educated at St Hugh's and had a very happy time here from 1979-1984 before moving to St Helen & St Katharine in Abingdon and then to Durham University, where she read Modern Languages and Business Studies. After Durham she trained as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young. After 8 years as an auditor in the Consumer Products sector, she moved to lastminute.com as Commercial Risk Manager. After a few years she decided to retrain as a Modern Languages teacher, doing her PGCE in Sheffield after which she taught at King's School, Chester; Uppingham School, Rutland and Emanuel School, London. She is currently on maternity leave from teaching at the Junior School of Channing School in Highgate, London. She is married to Alastair and they have two young children, Henrietta and Joshua.

Ms G Spizzirri

Job Titles:
  • Head of Art

Ms K Habberley

Job Titles:
  • Middle School Teaching Assistant